Pump House and Horse Shoes

[Doc Turbo]

Hi All, just a note to see if any of the boys from Pump House (north of Marine street) are still in the water. Geno is on line. Mark May lives in Santee, but the others??

Where are:

Mario Mancusi


Hello to you all and hope all are well and healthy. I still got a classic photo, of all of us at about age 19 in front of the wave on the pump house way back when.

[gene west]

yeah Steve, those were the days!...Here's the deal....Mario married johanna,living in bay park.Earl inherited hia parents house s few blocks from Wofat,Don Ho lives with him,Both Hoods married and breeding kids, Berlanga is in Kona still shredding,Dano working on a research vessel out of Monterey,Cave man still rules the rock.Greeno's married,riding bikes.Edmo's around too! E-mail me brah and I'll hook you up with mario. Remenber when we had Gomez shapes us all those killer Quads. I know how good you surf and must be killing in in indo. Can't believe qour still there. Miss you here Steve.............geno

[gene west]

Steve....just talked to mario and gave him your e-mail address and mark rameriz is on this site too! What's up with mark may? Oh yeah, the bonner brothers are alive and well too, Mike just got back from Berlangas in Kailua after a trip to the north shore and he's got a boat and chartering guys out to todos santos for waves....geno out!

[Bintang Bob]

Hey Geno, are you guys the Tom Wolf group I never read it

[skansand]

elecric koolade acid test Tom wolf?

[KenM]

The Pump House Gang.

[KAVA]

uh? Electric cool aid? the 80's band?????

[skansand]

the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a novel by the Author Tom Wolf

[kidrock]

Tom Wolfe is an iconic writer from the 60's and 70's. His book "The Pumphouse Gang" is an attempt to capture the changes in social behaviors during the mid to late 60's.

Some of his stuff is OK, but I was personally disappointed in "Gang". Very wordy and somewhat psychedelic, I couldn't make myself finish the thing. I think the biggest bummer was the fact that only the 1st chapter dealt with the Windansea/Pumphouse crew, and it was pretty weak (whaddaya expect from someone who doesn't surf?)

I thought the book would be COMPLETELY about the "Gang"...

[Doc Turbo]

The Wolfe Pump House was at Wind N Sea, near Big Rock (1 km to the south) and it was a few years before our time, my time was probably 1974 to 1983. Jeez now I look back, 33 years ago my god.

[Bintang Bob]

Jeez Steve you are a fossil I can't remember what I was doing during the 70's, which sez something about something...

[skansand]

you have to be ON phychedelics just to get through his books....i never finished ELecricKoolaidAcidTest.....wordy is the word...its about ken keasy and the merry pranksters....ken keasy wrote the classic 'the one who flew over the cuckoos nest', he was somewhat of a Timothy Leary type.....

[gene west]

Hola hermanos....just to set the record straight....no, we are not that "pumphouse gang", although I knew then and now some of those guys. The pumphouse my brother Steve Booth is refering to is in reality a reef in La Jolla originally called Sterncorps, now known as Hospitals.We called it pumphouse because there used to be a pumping station there.We were and are the original crew there, before all the little houses were torn down for the yuppie scum,&developers&,spongeboarders on there crappy toys,(tom morey you suck!!!),and out of staters invading what used to be a jewel on the coast.Any questions Greetings to BoB, much love to Steve......geno out