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Post by RandyNorthridgeCa on Feb 3, 2004 10:00:21 GMT -5
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Post by AlamedaGayle on Feb 3, 2004 19:24:52 GMT -5
Hey thanks Randy!! That is really cool. AG
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Post by Rookie on Feb 8, 2004 12:37:55 GMT -5
Been meaning to thank you for this one. Not for the Zuma Cam, but for the Manhattan Beach Cam they include on the site. I grew up in Manhattan. I left there in 1965 when I went into the army at 17. It was a great place to grow up. My first exposure to metal detecting was on the beach by the pier when I saw a guy waving a stick with what looked like a large plate over the sand. Being the average inquisitive 12 year old, I bugged him until he stopped to tell me what he was doing. After 43 years I still remember him pulling out a handful and I mean a handful of gold and silver jewelry. I made a mental note to try that someday. A year or two later I remember seeing a kid pulling what looked like a sandcrab catcher over the sand. Occasionally he would stop and check it. It looked like back breaking work and I made a mental note not to try that. I bet he cleaned up. Since I thought of nothing but surfing and girls , the rites of passage were important for any self respecting gremmie. Jumping off the end of the pier at midnight was one of those passages. The police enjoyed this too. They would arrest and hold for the parents anyone who got caught between the water and the Strand. The next day in school a pier jumper could walk around with his head high as no longer a gremmie, but a surfer. Well enough rambling about my youth, thank you for the link. The Manhattan Cam is on my favorites button.
Rookie
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Post by RandyNorthridgeCa on Feb 10, 2004 15:04:41 GMT -5
Been meaning to thank you for this one. Not for the Zuma Cam, but for the Manhattan Beach Cam they include on the site. I grew up in Manhattan. I left there in 1965 when I went into the army at 17. It was a great place to grow up. My first exposure to metal detecting was on the beach by the pier when I saw a guy waving a stick with what looked like a large plate over the sand. Being the average inquisitive 12 year old, I bugged him until he stopped to tell me what he was doing. After 43 years I still remember him pulling out a handful and I mean a handful of gold and silver jewelry. I made a mental note to try that someday. A year or two later I remember seeing a kid pulling what looked like a sandcrab catcher over the sand. Occasionally he would stop and check it. It looked like back breaking work and I made a mental note not to try that. I bet he cleaned up. Since I thought of nothing but surfing and girls , the rites of passage were important for any self respecting gremmie. Jumping off the end of the pier at midnight was one of those passages. The police enjoyed this too. They would arrest and hold for the parents anyone who got caught between the water and the Strand. The next day in school a pier jumper could walk around with his head high as no longer a gremmie, but a surfer. Well enough rambling about my youth, thank you for the link. The Manhattan Cam is on my favorites button. Rookie I'm glad the site brought back some great memories. It should come in handy in the summer  |
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Post by mayumi1 on Feb 18, 2004 22:02:38 GMT -5
Yeah, I gotta say, that was one fantastic site. I actually have not gone ot the beach this year since I found out about it. As you can see, there is NUTHIN at the beach until the next storm comes in.
JT
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Post by BigMax on Feb 21, 2004 0:47:47 GMT -5
Talking about beach pier memories...back in the 60's, 70's and a little into the 80's. Kids and teenagers alike used to swim out to the edge of the Redondo Beach pier (in between the horseshoe area). Tried it myself a few times. 'Diving for money' was a cheap side amusement at the pier! And for us divers, a way of getting some extra lunch/snack money. No one dove for the millions of pennys thrown. Not worth the effort!? People throwing pennies would be teased as being a cheapskate.  Saving themselves from embarrassment among the 'pier' pressured fellow tourists...shiney silver looking coins would be tossed over the rails! ;D Tourist from all walks of life, would throw loose change into the ocean. Watching kids dive down before it hits the sandy bottom (seemed like 12' or more?). Capture the coin, come back up & raise the coin in an act of triumph! Everyone had a cheap thrill. It was a win-win situation for all involved! ;D Only the silver / nickel looking ones were our targets! Some would throw one at a time, some would throw handfuls at one time (wise guys). Many were retrieved and many, many, many were not! The pier burned down a little less than a decade ago & have been rebuilt to a new modern splendor! But there buried deep in the shifting sands and swirling tidal currents...rest unknown amounts of coins tossed and lost for cheap tourist thrills. -Max |
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Saving themselves from embarrassment among the 'pier' pressured fellow tourists...shiney silver looking coins would be tossed over the rails! ;D Tourist from all walks of life, would throw loose change into the ocean. Watching kids dive down before it hits the sandy bottom (seemed like 12' or more?). Capture the coin, come back up & raise the coin in an act of triumph! Everyone had a cheap thrill. It was a win-win situation for all involved! ;D Only the silver / nickel looking ones were our targets! Some would throw one at a time, some would throw handfuls at one time (wise guys). Many were retrieved and many, many, many were not! The pier burned down a little less than a decade ago & have been rebuilt to a new modern splendor! But there buried deep in the shifting sands and swirling tidal currents...rest unknown amounts of coins tossed and lost for cheap tourist thrills. -Max