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Podcasts Off-Ramp
Playing Heat Wave Hang-Ten Hookey
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Dan Carino
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Aug 28, 2010
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Playing Heat Wave Hang-Ten Hookey
KPCC's surf reporter Brian Watt talks with a man who played hookey this week to catch the big waves that accompanied our heat wave. He refused to give his identity, on the grounds that it might incriminate him. (Real caption for photo: "Surf riding has no age limit. At the Doheny Surfing Club is Ed Proctor, who will be 80 in two months. Photo dated: August 5, 1961. Credit: LAPL/Herald-Examiner collection)

KPCC's surf reporter Brian Watt talks with a man who played hookey this week to catch the big waves that accompanied our heat wave. He refused to give his identity, on the grounds that it might incriminate him.

(Real caption for photo: "Surf riding has no age limit. At the Doheny Surfing Club is Ed Proctor, who will be 80 in two months. Photo dated: August 5, 1961. Credit: LAPL/Herald-Examiner collection)

KPCC's surf reporter Brian Watt talks with a man who played hookey this week to catch the big waves that accompanied our heat wave. He refused to give his identity, on the grounds that it might incriminate him.

(Real caption for photo: "Surf riding has no age limit. At the Doheny Surfing Club is Ed Proctor, who will be 80 in two months. Photo dated: August 5, 1961. Credit: LAPL/Herald-Examiner collection)