Lots of hoopla last Friday in California about the "Surf City" rivalry between Huntington Beach and Santa Cruz.
Seems that each town's been staking its claim to the name for years, and what's previously been mostly in good fun has gotten more serious, more petty and more ridiculous as Huntington Beach has trademarked the term and shopowners in Santa Cruz have retained attorneys to sue H.B. so they can continue to sell "Surf City" merchandise.
It's always fun and games until the almighty dollar is implicated, and yet it's unlikely that most actual surfers care at all about which California beach town is nicknamed "Surf City."
But here's one surfer's definite perspective on things: there's no way a town with mostly crappy, mostly closed-out beachbreak surf should be called (by anybody) "Surf City."
Here's a link to the full story at Newsvine.com.
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