Posted on 05/20/2016 1:17:32 PM PDT by Loud Mime
“I have ate at”...
SERIOUSLY?
(It’s “I have eaten at..”)
Seriously. I ate there too.
“SERIOUSLY?”
That really ate at you, didn’t it?
Aters gonna ate.
FWIW the California coast is pretty cool, for a variety of reasons.
One reason is all of the “village” areas, along the coast.
Belmont Shore, Seal Beach, Sunset Beach, Downtown Huntington Beach, Newport Pier, Balboa Pier/Fun Zone,
Balboa Island, Corona Del Mar, Laguna Beach, Dana Point, San Clemente, etc.
Same for LA County, San Diego County, Ventura County, Santa Barbara County and further north.
For about 8 months of the year, crowds are nonexistent. Most places have farmers’ market days, shopping, other events, long wide clean beaches with trails, piers, etc.
Not to mention the best climate in the world. (shared with a few places in the Mediterranean, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa).
In the early 1960's, I liked to fish off of those piers, where we would regularly catch Pasadena trout. Later, when I took party boats out to sea to go fishing, I considered Pasadena trout to be a nuisance and threw back any that I caught.
Durning the 1950's, buoys apparently used to hold up anti-submarine nets during WWII were stacked in a field near the pier at Seal Beach. Some were long, resembling oil drums but much larger, while others were spherical. When we first saw them in the summer of 1956, my mother thought the long bouys were bombs and that the spherical ones were torpedoes.
On the way to Huntington Beach, we would drive past farms. In July, 1960, we took Golden West Ave. as an alternate route to the pier. I'll never forget passing one dairy farm after another. Hard to believe that Golden West Ave. today, with its strip malls, office buildings and community college is the very same street.
I done etted thar to.
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JOSE! Turn the steaks over!
I can assure you, José never burns a steak. When food is involved they pay atención.
I was fascinated by all the drive-on piers, and they’re quite long with restaurants and retail all up and down. We don’t have those here in the southeast. The pier restaurant and tackle shop/store is on land, typically behind the dune line. Then it’s just wooden pier, pedestrian only. Hurricanes, I guess. We get them frequently. California doesn’t.
I thought I was the only one who cringed at that.
“I was fascinated by all the drive-on piers, and they’re quite long with restaurants and retail all up and down. We don’t have those here in the southeast. The pier restaurant and tackle shop/store is on land, typically behind the dune line. Then it’s just wooden pier, pedestrian only. Hurricanes, I guess. We get them frequently. California doesn’t.”
Hurricanes, maybe no. But powerful storms off the ocean, nonetheless.
1988 knocked down the longest pier on the Pacific Coast at Huntington Beach. Had to be completely rebuilt.
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