Posted on 02/14/2024 6:38:01 AM PST by Fiji Hill
Interesting. Thanks for that info.
Huntington Beach was also good for clamming — nice, big Pismo clams.
Then there were the late night high school parties around the fire rings. Ah, the beer flowed like wine.
source: wikipedia
While in college up the coast in Santa Barbara, the wine flowed like wine. Carlo Rossi Rose $1.50 per gallon. The aftermath of overindulgence wasn’t pretty.
Surf City. One of my first cassette tapes. Yes, I’m older.
This story doesn’t even address the problem of why HB is in trouble-—homeless, illegal criminal aliens, gangs, drugs, all thanks to the DemoKKKrat Party.
Mrs. Chandler graduated from Dos Pueblos High School. I’ve heard about the parties up there.
UCSB was and probably still is a party school. From the dorm to the beach was a narrow footpath down the ‘cliff’ overlooking the beach. A quick trip to Goleta furnished the kegs and wine. It was a great time to be alive.
If memory serves it was not a ban on just that flag but on any flag except the U.S., California, and other appropriate flags such as MIA/POW flag or city flag.
A lot of tar on those SB beaches.
I listened to it on AM radio well before there were cassette tapes.
A lot of tar on those SB beaches.
Surf city? Last time I was in Huntington Beach, it looked like
beach day for gangsters and low life.
Downtown Huntington Beach is chic and upscale. Maybe you were at the state park about a mile down Pacific Coast Highway. That was where we used to go in the 1950s and into the next decade, but I haven't been there in eons.
Well said.
I Know HTB intimately and watched it go downhill with crime and gridlock over the years. Btw, it was right there at the pier/Main St. In summer it’s just a crowded mass of obnoxious tourist and low life. I always tried to avoid it.
BTW, it got so bad, my last 10-15 years of living in S.CA I never actually went to the beach. They can have it!☺
Huntington Beach State Park was our go-to beach, although I preferred Corona del Mar for its tide pools full of sea life, and because with its smaller waves due to the breakwater, it was more swimmable. To get to Huntington Beach, we had to drive past bean fields if we took Beach Blvd. or past dairy farms if we took Golden West.
That was a long time ago, and it seems like a galaxy far, far away.
The last time I was at the beach in S. CA, probably 15 years ago, we were leaving and had to walk about 1/2 mile to the parking lot and found 2 vehicles on both sides of our vehicle had been broken into, smashed windows etc..And there were used pampers laying in the parking lot...Just disgusting...I think that was the final time we ever went back to the beach in S.CA. Nowadays I avoid crowds like the plague.☺
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