Jack London, who was born in San Francisco, California traveled East to find publishers who would be willing to publish his short stories. He later returned to California with little luck with publishers in the East. Subsequently, he traveled north to Canada to take part in the Yukon gold rush. However, he again returned to California at the age of 22 because he had little luck in Canada in amassing a fortune.

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The story line remains the same. The kids live in what was then one of the remaining beachfront slums, down the coast from the e

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"The Lords of Dogtown" originally practised their tricks (a.) on the beach.

The sentence that indicates that the kids practised their tricks on the beach before skateboarding in an open drainage canal and empty pools is "The beach was ruled by surfers, but in the afternoon, when the waves died down, some of the surfers, or their younger brothers, fooled around on skateboards". The movie "The Lords of Dogtown" is based on the true story of of a group of skateboarders from Venice Beach, California in the 1970s.

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