DURING THE EARLY DAY OF SURFBOARD RIDING, a great adventure would be a trip from Manhattan Beach Pier to Los Angeles Centro where the Salvation Army Second Hand Store stood. They had some real stuff there: army helmets, canteens, African campaining
trunks, ammunition belts, and deluxe swagger sticks. This would inventory surf movie appearances, surf trips, and over all beach attire. The entire tab would be less than $8.00 for seven surfers. Yesterday, "Skippy" Slater arrives at San Onofre with a pregnant idea, we'd all hop in THEBIGKOOK'S Great White Van, go to Capo Beach's COSTCO. Everyone was agreeable, so off we went at 10:00 AM. THEBIGKOOK, not to bypass a wonderful entrance, does a half dozen full-on doughnuts in the parking lot, slams into a Handicap Parking Only Zone and everybody piles out. They follow "Skippy" who leads the tour to Free Sample are where everyone helped themselves to a "happy hour" feast TEAMBIGKOOK ate (for free) candies, cookies, juices, samplers, bbq chicken and beef, cashew samples, spaghetti, raviolas, smoked sausages, wonderful zucchini nutty muffins, mocha rich coffee samples, and smoked swordfish. The only problem was TEAMBIGKOOK ate COSTCO of of business. "Skippy' was given the "stink eye by the MOD and thought it was best to pack up and leave. A, however, a wonderful time was had by all thanks to Slater. BTW, on the way out, "The Grunion" scored with a leftover 18" pepperoni pizza.
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