SAN ONOFRE IS NOTORIUS FOR ITS CONTRIBUTION to surfing.
Take the bamboo forest for example. When the WWII vets
arrived in North San Diego County in the late forties the beach
was desolate unattractive as unattractive can be. One of San
Onofre's early riders was a popular rascal named Guisippe
Bamboozalado. Southern California's coast historically is
an arrid desert, documented by Land Tile Company reading
material. Having spent years in North Africa chasing "The
Desert Fox" he became disenchanted by sand sans
vegetation. This is what San Onofre by the Sea appeared
to him--a desert! Bamboozalado was good friends with
Ernie Pendelton, after whom Camp Pendelton is named.
San Onofre cronies were estatic, "Tell Pendelton you want
to remembered down here. Tell him you want to plant
bamboo, Guisippe, that way they'll remember Bamboozalado
forever. This is how, 65 years ago, San Onofre's Bamboo
Forrest was born.
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