Sex Wax

[mix]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RCvLhU9l63Q/StthCAi5ptI/AAAAAAAAASU/6PDzM2uBGwM/s400/Sex+Wax.jpg

[azmouse]

1. woohoo! Party time!

:woohoo:

[mix]

2. it was the source of endless jokes and green room visits nt

[denbot]

3. I used to use it but now I'm a Sticky Bumps man..

[mix]

4. classic

[Odin2005]

5. IBTL

[denbot]

6. No lock needed

Zog's Sex Wax is a surfboard wax that has been around for 30+ years.

http://www.sexwax.com/

[mix]

7. .

[kentauros]

8. "Carpinteria"?

Is that like a washateria for carpenters? :P

[mix]

9. I actually grew up in that town. I was born in Santa Barbara up the coast.

The story we were told as kids in school is that the Chumash tribes in the area were skilled wood craftsmen, building large canoes in particular. The Spanish, who thoroughly colonized the area, named this concentration of canoe factories "La Carpinteria," or carpenter's shop.

[Capn Sunshine]

10. It means "Carpenter's shop" in Spanish

When the Spanish first arrived there, there were canoes lined up by the dozens being worked on because right there is a supply of trees and the oil oozes out of the ground like tar, which is what they used to waterproof the canoes. Tar is still there ozzing out in the cliffs. It oozed up and overwhelmed a couple of oilco offices back in the early 20th century. Very trippy sight.

[mix]

11. Tar Pits and Jelly Bowl!

[Capn Sunshine]

12. I grew up in Carp too!

remember how there was little handi-wipes with gasoline on them to get the tar off your feet? You don't see those any more.
Oh, and jinx on the above posts

[mix]

13. Did you surf these spots?

I had the worst experience at Jelly Bowl. I got caught inside and then sucked over the falls backwards when I tried to paddle through a huge beach break closeout. I barely made it to the beach and when I got near the cliffs all my friends were laughing and cheering. It was a really gray cold day too. Nearly lost consciousness, awful.

[Capn Sunshine]

14. yeah, I surfed all over there

There used to be a pier right there at Jelly Bowl and there was this wicked suck inside because of the pilings. There was also a glorious reverse point break at the slough (west end) and in the big ass storm of 1969(?) the whole point washed away. Fucking washed away! The pier at Jelly bowl went then also. When I was really little there used to be a rope down the beach at the end of Linden,from the curb all the way into the water, and I never knew what it was for until later when an old dude told me if you weren't white you couldn't cross the rope.

[mix]

15. I had a lot of fun surfing those spots, and Jalama and Rincon, back in the day.

This was in the late seventies, early eighties.

Despite that experience at Jelly Bowl, I loved hanging out with the Tar Pits crew, bad boys and girls, and getting into trouble at the state park.

That trips me out about the rope...there was a degree of Hispanic-Anglo conflict, but not much. But I also know there were some very conservative whites in Carpinteria, particularly the ranchers. That neighborhood at the end of Linden to the right was a hippie surfer ghetto with some moderately expensive apartments here and there during my adolescence. I remember going with my uncle to score a few times.

[kentauros]

19. I figured the words were related as they are very similar.

I like the history of the place, too! :D

It just made me think of "washateria", something very common in the South. For those unfamiliar with the word, it's the same as "laundromat" everywhere else. Yes, we Southerners are brain-damaged :P

[krispos42]

16. Porpoise Polish?

:-)

[mix]

17. .

[mdmc]

23. very nice pic

[mix]

18. delete dupe

[sarge43]

20. Oooo, shiny. n/t

[divvy]

21. They put it on Surf Boards - not "hung like a surf board"

Surfers hang 10 which refers to toes and not ...
oh well, whats the use

[sarge43]

22. Don't go there, divvy

and welcome to the Lounge where the snark is fresh and piping hot.