YOU CAN'T TAKE THINGS AT FACE VALUE ANYMORE. Was all the stuff

read you read about the SOSC and their BOD fact or fiction? James Kempton

edited San Onofre's Fiftieth Anniversary Commemamortive Yearbook

and if you curious about "Backyard Legends" read it. Nat Young's

History of Surfing is marvelous. Matt Warshaw's Encyclopedia of

Surfing "is telling it like it is", however, the SOSC 50th is "reality surfing"

at it's best. Listen to this "cast of characters: From Pop Procter to

Craig Ephrapm, and everyone in between, including dumb dogs

crapping on the sand, while it's master looks the other way.

Whoever researched the project might have distingueshed the

difference between a public beach and a dog kennel. As you

turn from page to page you can't help but think of Andy Warhol's

"everyone in their life gets fifteen minutes of fame." When you

read about Barney Wilkes, Eddie McBride, Jack White, Al

Dowden, Larry Green, Tom Turner, Vong Morong, Eve Fletcher,

James Arness, Jackie Coogan, Fatty Arbuckle;e, and thousands

more, you want answers as to why San Onofre's so far down

Surfing's food chain. Luau's, folding chair contests, rock and

roll ladies and vollyballen' men bocci ballers,, and every

other competetive off-beat sport in the world of this kickey

planet. Ranger Dairywimple received a request from

SOSC BOD for a special waiver permit to chisel four figures

on the sandstone bluff adjacent to the old Kukai Canyon,

a Mt.Rushmore style tribute to the "Deceased Legends of San Onofre".

TUBESTEAK/FOUNDER