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Cautionary Tales Presents: Lost Hills - The Dark Prince
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Curse of the Shumash
A friend of mine turned me on to an essay that ran in the June, July, 1976 issue of Surfer magazine. The piece was peppered with arcane references to Mickey Dora and his antics. On one page, there were several pictures of Mickey going down the line at Malibu. In the image, Mickey also has a surfboard with him, angled away from the camera,. And on the bottom of the board is an enormous swastika.
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