Thursday, August 12, 2010

First foam skimboards shaped here.

8-12-2010  
1981  The little red shed on the left was the Vic shaping room, and push lawn mower storage bay.  This house was Lynn’s and my first house together next door to Victoria’s first official shop at 2535 Laguna Cyn. Road.  It was part of the Timothy Leery property, who was Mr. LSD in the 60's.    A pigsty, drug den, 8’ tall ivy sproutting out of the roof shingles, parrot guano 6” high in the living room front window, syringes here and there, broken glass, shattered toilet, etc.  We persuaded the owner to let us manage three other units and got cheap rent in exchange for our efforts to clean it up.  Learned a ton about property management in the process.  The previous tenant (speed freak) had a run in with me one day at the shop,  which led to a skuffle, and later that day my first date with Lynn.  Bingo!  My adrenalin was gone and I was abnormally relaxed for once, and had a great evening together.  Later he got evicted and we moved in.  Strange how fate works.  
This is our American Gothic photo after the transformation.  Got married while living there.  Good times.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

New-school representative to the sport and tireless ambassador to Victoria Skimboards. Hope by now he is back to his wicked ripping ways!!

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