Pismo Beach

comment by Anonymous, 2008-06-03 23:33:02

burnsey
ig Tuna - it's not "immatureness" (sic) it's "Immaturity".

Hoale - parking is no longer free and the town is busy all year - a lot busier in the summer. It's a hell of a lot more crowded than ever...and if these decent folk wish to trash talk and disparage the place, let'em!

Personally I'd pay a few more pros to talk bad about the place just tp get the word out.

And BTW people - we've got White Sharks too...lot's ofem...

comment by PB Haoli, 2007-06-16 22:42:13

Just read all this file
Funny to hear lokes mention "the names": Artiaga (we lived together at Fort Surf along with a bunch of other old JG regulars who I just don't see much anymore) JG, Whitey, Corey, Lennie, all the brothers and sisters I fell in with when I moved to town and became a Stimson Local.Pancho? Class act, a good man. Lots of other names: Van, Czerney (sp? sorry....), the assorted girlfriends, waitresses who call me by name even when I haven't seen them in a long time).Locals: they're the ones who keep the stores and restaurants in business in the off-season when the tourists go home. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day Pismo is crowded by,well, not the higher-class of international tourism that I have experienced living in some world-class resort areas across the USA.The rest of the season, especially after the Holidays at the end and beginning of the year, it's a Ghost Town. You could drive a flaming bus off 101 and down the center of Pomeroy and not hit anybody. And the only people that would come out to watch it go by would be bored shop owners.That's when we like it the best, actually. Plenty o'free parking and no lines to stand in. Of course, it's cold, foggy and downright dismal and miserable then but whatcha gonna do?There's still people here that if, for example, you tell them that you "have to drive to LA this weekend" will give you the same look of sympathy as if you had just told them your favorite old dog just died.It's small and it's quiet around here when tourist season is over. Of course, there's no employment to speak of and locals are being forced out of town by real estate speculators who have torn down most of the funky old beach cottages we have lived down by the beach and put up multi-million dollar condos and converted the rest of downtown housing to "Vacation Rentals". Yeah, I guess, though, it's still "Classic California" at certain times of the year and the rest of the time Pismo exists only to extract as much money from the wallets of the turistas as it can in the shortest amount of time possible. All in all I would have question how bad it must be where "you" live if you come here for vacation. I just can't see it as a vacation destination....unless you like driving on the dunes with thousands of people just like you.And the trash? Let's try to be a little more conscious of where and when you pitch it. Broken glass bottles in the lots? Trash obviously dumped outside your vehicle because you're too lazy to walk over to the trash can? Not cleaning up after your nasty dog craps on the sidewalk, parking lot or beach?I've know locals who will clean that trash up and either deliver it back to the owners in Bakersfield if they can find the address or will mail same back to the perps and violators. And do it with glee. Same with dog waste.Come here and have fun but how about a little respect for those of us who live here?

comment by Pismo Beach Haoli, 2007-06-16 21:56:30

17. 5 years here and still "The New Guy"
Lived here for more than 15 years, less than 20, but my Central Coast roots go back to the WWII years when my father and mother lived here while he was stationed nearby.....seen it all or most of it, and what I haven't seen I can go to the source to find out. The bad stuff is true and the good stuff is, too.I still surf dawn patrol at age 60. I used to work for JG and Pismo Beach Surf Shop, living and working downtown, and actually own one of those PBL t-shirts. I am a charter member of The San Luis Bay Chapter of Surfrider Foundation though I'm not much of a meeting-goer.Point is this: you find here what you bring here. Bad attitude = bad surfing.I do my best to "live Aloha" every day in spite of tourism and violent localism. Do a google search on Pismo Beach Local Surf violence and you will find a New Times article that explored such. I know all the characters involved and most have been guests in my house...except for the guy who chose a bad day to pick on a local.I have suffered through bouts of fecal-coliform related sicknesses due to polluted Pismo waters, I've been circled by 15 ft. thrasher sharks, chased off peaks by angry juvenile dolphins, intimidated out of the water by a killer whale, rubbed on by amorous sea lions and pissed off by Mad Max Motorhomes and Land Yachts who park as close to the ocean as the law allows, taking up multiple parking places at times when parking spots are at a premium.And, somehow, I've managed to meet and hang out with some of the best people on the face of the earth and had more fun (usually before noon) than adults should be allowed to have EVER, and do it on a daily basis.And yet, in spite of a pretty fair Pismo Beach resume, I'm still "the new guy" to those who have been here longer than me.Doesn't bother me.....I live by the motto "Give Respect, Get Respect". You don't get it unless you give it.And it looks like I'm going to be here long after the whiners and bad-attitude tourists and whatever new group of Cal Poly "6 years to graduate" newbies come rolling through.Of course, the risk in becoming a local is that usually it's because one cannot get their crap together enough to get out of town.Not in my case. I have ohana here and have put down not a few roots.But, still, I pay respects and don't mind a bit when, in truth and humor, I'm called a "Pismo Beach Haoli."