Avery Truffleman

And it's beautiful.

It's like this amazing pool.

And it's featured on the cover of Sunset Magazine.

which at the time was like all up and down the West Coast.

Everybody's reading Sunset Magazine.

And this is around the time, after World War II, a bunch of soldiers had been stationed in the Pacific Theater, and they were like, oh, California's kind of nice.

I'm going to stay here.

And there were all these new housing developments.

And these were mostly like city kids who'd never had a house or a yard before.

And so suddenly, they're all these like young families with yards.

And they're like, what do I do with this yard?

They read Sunset Magazine.

They see this pool.

And they're like, I want that pool.

This pool becomes the trend all across Southern California.

Everybody builds a curvy pool.

And then it's funny, because I told the story backwards from the way I told it in 99% Invisible.

But the thing that is most interesting to me is in the 1970s, there's a massive drought.

All those pools get drained.

And a bunch of kids who are surfers who don't want to, who are having trouble finding waves, break into all those pools and they start skateboarding.