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Knowing how to swim is a good skill to have...
I'm not talking about being the next Mark Spitz here...But knowing basic strokes and how to stay afloat for long periods of time.
I was amazed at how many soldiers did not know how to swim and could not pass the swim test for Ranger School.
Andy
Balboa Island was just a bunch of rich people houses as far as I remember. nothing fun for kids that;s for sure.
I seem to remember they had a small downtown area at Balboa Island. And a car ferry. And for some reason I remember flashes of a bumper car ride... IDK.
It looks like the apartments we stayed in are still there at the end of 15th, along with the lot where the bowling green was that is a park now.
Rookies!Yup!!
Real live action of people eating it:
Edit: World famous beach location, part of Newport Beach CA
I learned to swim at the ripe young age of 2ish at the community pool with my older brother and my parents in Cannon Beach, Oregon. Always amazed me that some people didnt learn to swim til much later.
My childhood summers were always spent at Newport Beach, 2-3 times a week we traveled about 2hrs to go. Sometimes Huntington Beach, but it was bigger, longer, wider, and Newport seemed more... colloquial? Dad worked for the phone company and vacations were a rented cottage in Newport about 3 blocks from the sand. One had to cross Costa Mesa Blvd and I was 5, 7 in the early years so I spent a bunch of time in the backwaters of Newport Bay.
Balboa Island was a place to go, but I don't remember much about it. I sorta remember the Pike.
Okay, I've been trying to figure this out for years... if The Pike was in Long Beach, where was Pacific Ocean Park (P.O.P.)???
Fishing from the piers at both Newport and H.B., catching croakers, and endless number of sand sharks!! As an adult, my brother lived in Costa Mesa and we used to haunt H.B. pier in the early hours of the morning... that was when I learned how much old guys know... There was always a bunch of em and always good stories!!
[/QUOTE. POP is in Santa Monica!
POP is in Santa Monica!