" Malibu - California"
Malibu is a burghal amid in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the burghal citizenry was 12,575.
The Burghal of Malibu is a 27-mile band of Pacific coastline; a beachfront association acclaimed for its warm, albino beaches, and for actuality the home of endless cine stars and others associated with the Southern California motion account and recording industries. Best Malibu association alive aural a few hundred yards of Pacific Bank Highway (California Accompaniment Route 1) which traverses the city; the burghal is additionally belted (more or less) by Topanga and Pacific Palisades to the east, the Santa Monica Mountains to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the south, and Ventura County to the arctic and west. Its added beaches accommodate Malibu Accompaniment Bank and Topanga Accompaniment Beach; its parks accommodate Malibu Creek Accompaniment Esplanade and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
A accepted bonanza sticker reads, "Malibu: A Way of Life." Added slogans: "Where the mountains accommodated the sea", "27 afar of breathtaking beauty", "Malibu - activity is too abbreviate to alive it elsewhere".
90265 is an absolute ZIP cipher in Malibu. Although best of 90265 absolutely lies alfresco congenital breadth of the city, the U.S. Postal Service considers all addresses in that ZIP cipher to be Malibu addresses. Absolute acreage agents baptize these abutting areas "Malibu Post Office".
History
Malibu was a allotment of the breadth of the Chumash association of Native American Indians. It was called "Humaliwo" or "the cream sounds loudly." Spanish charlatan Juan Cabrillo is believed to accept anchored at Malibu Lagoon, at the aperture of Malibu Creek, to access beginning baptize in 1542. The Spanish attendance alternate with the California mission system, and the breadth was allotment of a 13,000 acre (120 km²) acreage admission in 1802. That agronomical anesthetized complete to Frederick Hastings Rindge in 1891. He and his widow, Rhoda May Rindge, attentive their aloofness acquiescently by hiring guards to adios all trespassers and angry a diffuse cloister action to anticipate the architecture of a Southern Pacific railroad line. Few anchorage alike entered the breadth afore 1929, back the accompaniment won addition cloister case and congenital what is now accepted as the Pacific Bank Highway. By again May Rindge was affected to bisect her acreage and activate affairs and leasing lots. The Rindge house, accepted as the Adamson House, is now allotment of Malibu Creek Accompaniment Esplanade and is anchored amid Malibu Lagoon and Surfrider Beach, beside the Malibu Berth that was originally congenital for the ancestors yacht. The Malibu Colony was one of the aboriginal areas settled, and is on the adverse bank of the lagoon.
In 1926, in an accomplishment to abstain affairs acreage to avoid off insolvency, Rhoda May Rindge created a baby bowl asphalt factory. At its height, the Malibu Potteries active over 100 workers, and produced adorning tiles which accouter abounding Los Angeles-area accessible barrio and Beverly Hills residences. The factory, amid one-half mile east of the pier, was ravaged by a blaze in 1931. Although the branch partially reopened in 1932, it could not balance from the furnishings of the Great Depression and a abrupt abatement in Southern California architecture projects. A audible amalgam of Moorish and Arts and Crafts designs, Malibu asphalt is advised awful collectible. Fine examples of the tiles may be apparent at the Adamson Abode and Serra Retreat, a fifty-room abode that was started in the 1920s as the capital Rindge home on a acropolis overlooking the lagoon. The amateurish architecture was awash to the Franciscan Adjustment in 1942 and is operated as a retreat facility. It austere in the 1970 blaze and was rebuilt application abounding of the aboriginal tiles.
In 1991 Malibu, continued an unincorporated breadth of Los Angeles County, accomplished cityhood in adjustment to acquiesce for exercise of bounded control. Prior to assimilation the bounded association had fought proposed developments including a freeway, a nuclear ability plant, and several sewerline plans. Actor Martin Sheen was called honorary ambassador in 1989
Geography
Malibu is amid at 34°1′50″N, 118°46′43″W (34.030450, -118.778612)GR1.
According to the United States Demography Bureau, the burghal has a absolute breadth of 261.5 km² (101.0 mi²). Thus, Malibu is one of the better cities in California and the United States in agreement of acreage and baptize area. 51.5 km² (19.9 mi²) of it is acreage and 210.0 km² (81.1 mi²) of it is baptize (the burghal boundaries extend three afar into the ocean). The absolute breadth is 80.32% water. Malibu has a citizenry body of 632.9 bodies per aboveboard mile of acreage area. Throughout its history, Malibu's different cartography placed it at the benevolence of abundant accustomed disasters, namely floods, fires, and mudslides.
A accepted and deeply-ingrained delusion amidst Californians is that their bank is analogously north-south. Around Malibu (and Santa Barbara) the bank runs about absolutely east-west, as does its capital artery, Pacific Bank Highway. While travelling arctic on the PCH through Malibu one is absolutely travelling west. Likewise, the Pacific Ocean is due south and the civil Santa Monica Mountains are north. Malibu association generally augment into this delusion by apropos to areas abreast the Ventura County band as "North Malibu" and areas abreast Santa Monica as "South Malibu," alike admitting they are on around the aforementioned latitude. Carbon Beach, Surfrider Beach, Broad Beach, Pirate's Cove, Westward Beach, Zuma Beach, and Trancas are places forth the bank in Malibu. Point Dume forms the arctic end of the Santa Monica Bay, and the accessible esplanade there affords a angle of addition to the Palos Verdes Peninsula and Santa Catalina Island.
The appellation Malibu Ozarks is sometimes acclimated derogatorily to call absolute acreage and acreage over the aboriginal abundance ambit (and defective an ocean view). However, acreage in this breadth is some of the best big-ticket in the United States, and is accountable to acrimonious development limitations imposed by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, Coastal Commission and the Burghal of Malibu.
In the media
Malibu has been acclimated as a area for endless films and television programs. It is the home of Charlie Harper, his brother and nephew of the accepted television alternation Two and a Half Men. It was home to Gidget, and surfing movies of the 1960s. Important scenes in the Planet of the Apes alternation were filmed at Point Dume. The hero's bivouac in The Rockford Files was anchored by Malibu Pier. Love American Style and the Mod Squad are amid abounding TV alternation and commercials filmed in Paradise Cove. In the 1990s and 2000s it was the ambience for MTV Bank House, Malibu's Best Wanted, the Disney Channel appearance Hannah Montana, and Nickelodeon's Zoey 101. In the Cohen Brothers 1998 motion account The Big Lebowski, the fabulous arch of badge describes it thus: "We've got a nice, quiet bank association here, and I aim to accumulate it nice and quiet."
Many articles accept been called for Malibu or its neighborhoods, none of which are fabricated in the burghal or environs: Chevrolet Malibu, Malibu Barbie, Piper Malibu, Malibu Grand Prix, and Malibu Rum.
Also it's the abode area Cat Stevens had his acclaimed near-death acquaintance in 1976 back he about drowned while he was swimming, this blow led him to embrace Islam in 1977
