Billy Parks, a Santa Monica College star who later played in the National Football League, died last week at 61.
Parks played quarterback at Culver City High in the mid-1960s but converted to receiver at SMC. He went on to become an All-American at Long Beach State and was the San Diego Chargers’ sixth round pick in 1970. He played five seasons in the NFL for three teams.
As a Chargers rookie he had 41 catches for 609 yards.Parks died in Hawaii from an aggressive case of melanoma.
Hundreds of middle school, high school and college students as well as parents, educators and guests will hit the iconic Santa Monica Pier for the third annual S.T.E.A.M. Machines Innovation Fair and Rube Goldberg Machine Competition on Saturday.
You know what really pisses me off? The fact that many in the fashion industry still think that the perfect woman is a size two and 18 years old. I look at fashion magazines, the internet, go into stores, see all these tiny sizes, and laugh about it, because a lot of the editors of those fashion magazines and the-high fashion designers are most definitely not a size two or 18 years old.
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