Dogtown

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Dogtown might refer to

• Dogtown, California, a ghost town in Mono County; also the name of a non-existent town in Calaveras County shown on some maps.

• Dogtown, Massachusetts, a ghost town

• Dogtown, Los Angeles, California, an old established barrio of Northeast L.A. (not to be confused with the Venice Beach area), often associated with first usage of the term "dog" (also spelled & pronounced "dawg") in reference to one's neighborhood "homeboys"

• Dogtown, a 1997 film

• Dogtown and Z-Boys, a 2001 documentary film about skateboarding

• a neighborhood of Saint Louis, Missouri [1]

• a nickname for the beach area at the Santa Monica/Venice border in California, famed for its skateboarding and surfing culture, used as the setting of Lords of Dogtown, a film released in 2005 based on Dogtown and Z-Boys

• a mining jargon for a group of ad-hoc huts or other shelters, typically near a mineral deposit

• a nickname for Birmingham, Michigan

• a nickname for North Little Rock, Arkansas

• a nickname for the West Oakland neighborhood of Oakland, California.

• the former name of Magalia, California, a historical gold rush town in Butte County [2]

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