I have been too busy to do work on my latest (theoretically/optimisticly finished) rewrite of my novel. OR it has been low on my priority list. HOWEVER AND ALWAYS, thoughts about it pop up. This needs more, this less. One thought that recurs is that my first chapter is, possibly, too cool. I claim to hate cuteness and too-cuteness; but there it is. Dialogue without stage direction I insist is enough.
SO, I may cut it out entirely. NO, NO, not that; I will move it to CHAPTER IV as an alternative.
Check it out. Thanks. Is today, or is every day INTERNATIONAL SURFING DAY?
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I’m trying to find out what happened to a couple guys I met in 1971. They had a small surf shop, if you can call it that, in North cove just down the beach from Grayland. Their names were Tom Gates and Rocky (can’t remember his last name). They were Shapers and pretty much did nothing but smoke pot build boards and surf. They taught me to surf. I moved down from Seattle right after HS and rented the cabin behind theirs. They were good guys and had a lot of influence on me back then. I have asked every older surfer Ive met and asked in every shop. No one seems to remember them. That surprises me as they were excellent shapers and you would think that Talent would show up somewhere. They had some relationship with the Quinault tribe and surfed Pt Grenville often as well as the jetty at Westport. Tom was a veteran and I think Rocky was as well. I vaguely remember Rocky mentioning that Toms Dad was the Mayor of Bellevue, I googled that and found that a “Kenneth Gates was mayor of Bellevue in 1970. Just weird how they have disappeared. Hopping someone might remember them.
I will post this and alert Tom Burns. Thanks for going through whatever they put people through to comment. Tom has been on the scene for years and remembers names and stories.
Thanks, I don’t have pictures of them, but I do have a picture of their surf shop in north Cove. If I had a FB account to send it too or a phone number to text, it too I would send it to whomever.