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12 unusual facts about Laguna Beach.


Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles

The show is very similar in nature to such MTV programs as Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, The Hills, and the online series The Suburbs, as it features African-Americans of upper-middle-class families who divide their time between attending school, playing sports, shopping at high-end stores, and driving expensive cars.

Bicycle suspension

For 10 years AMP Research manufactured their full-suspension bikes in small quantities in Laguna Beach, California, including the manufacture of their own hubs, rear shocks, front suspension forks and cable-actuated-hydraulic disc brakes which they pioneered.

Breanna Conrad

Breanna is the younger sister of Lauren Conrad, who came to prominence after being cast in the reality television series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and its spin-off The Hills, which documented the lives of her and her friends.

Irvine Bowl

The Irvine Bowl is an amphitheater in Laguna Beach, California.

Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County

The PTC also criticized MTV for not including content indicators such as "L" (language) or "S" (sexual content) in addition to its television ratings for the show, a move that prevents viewers from being able to effectively use the V-chip feature found on some televisions to control the broadcast of the show into their homes.

However, after an incident during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII briefly exposed the breast of performer Janet Jackson, the school board questioned if the network, who produced the event, held the care necessary to operate in an academic setting.

Lo Bosworth

After the success of Laguna Beach, MTV developed The Hills, a spin-off series documenting the lives of Conrad and her friends (Heidi Montag, Audrina Patridge, and Whitney Port) in Los Angeles, California.

Bosworth appeared on MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County in 2004, which followed her during her senior year of high school during the first season.

In 2004, she rose to prominence after being cast in the reality television series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, which documented the lives of her and her friends.

Robert A. Schuller

She was a cast member during the first season of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.

The After Show

The After Show is the blanket title for several talk shows currently or previously aired by MTV originally connected to reality series it airs such as Laguna Beach and The Hills.

The Fifth of July

The songs on the album have been featured on MTV's Date My Mom, Made, and Laguna Beach. In addition, they've been in rotations from South Carolina to Seattle. This album was also the first to feature Mark "Poochie" Borror.


American Impressionism

American impressionist artists also thrived in California at Carmel and Laguna Beach; in New York on eastern Long Island at Shinnecock, largely due to the influence of William Merritt Chase; and in Boston where Edmund Charles Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson became important practitioners of the impressionist style.

AO Recordings

Their music has been included in hit television series including Brothers & Sisters, ALIAS, MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real OC, My Name Is Earl and What About Brian.

Casey Reinhardt

In 2005, Reinhardt rose to prominence after being cast in the reality television series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, which documented the lives of her and her friends as they attended Laguna Beach High School.

Reinhardt was raised in Laguna Beach, California Dana Point, California by her mother, Kelly Roberts, father, John Reinhardt, and step father, Duane Roberts, with her older brother Doug Reinhardt.

Gavvy Cravath

Cravath returned to California, where he went into real estate and was elected magistrate judge (Justice of the Peace) in September 1927 in Laguna Beach, California; he died there at age 82.

It Ends Tonight

"It Ends Tonight" is featured in the television shows Smallville, Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and All My Children as well as various commercials for TV shows such as Smallville, One Tree Hill and Battlestar Galactica.

Keith Varon

An independent soft rock musician, several of his songs have been selected to appear on different TV shows, such as MTV's Laguna Beach and its spin-off The Hills as well as Next, ABC's What About Brian and Paradise City on E!.

Kenneth E. BeLieu

In the second half of the 1960s, he would serve as the President of the Leisure World in Laguna Beach, California (which is today Laguna Woods Village); as a member of the Defense Science Board; as a Member of the Board of Advisors of Ryan Aeronautical; and as a member of the Technical Advisory Board of RCA.

Laguna Beach High School

The cast of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County included Laguna Beach High School students Lo Bosworth, Kristin Cavallari, Stephen Colletti, Breanna Conrad, Lauren Conrad, Raquel Donatelli, Cami Edwards, Tessa Keller, and Kyndra Mayo.

Nick Beres

Nick then worked for The Orange County NewsChannel, in which he was notorious for his coverage of the Northridge earthquake, Laguna Beach fires, President Nixon's funeral, and the O.J. Simpson trial.

Sarah Linda

She has also been the face and voice of numerous advertising campaigns, including Saga Insurance, T-Mobile and Laguna Beach.

Split Habit

The band had had recent successes licensing their music and were featured on Smallville, Laguna Beach, Supernatural and many other programs.

The Orion Experience

The band's music appeared on MTV's soundtrack to Laguna Beach and several tracks from their 2007 release, Cosmicandy, were included in Zoey 101: Chasing Zoey.

William Alexander Levy

Alexander is best known for the design and building of Hangover House in Laguna Beach, California, commissioned by travel writer Richard Halliburton in 1937.