Beach Culture Is All Around--and Above Us
I find your July 22 article on the angst of certain beach cities about banner-towing planes amusing and a bit sad. I have enjoyed the beaches of Southern California from Long Beach to San Diego for over 70 years, have lived in several beach communities, including Laguna Beach, and once owned a home in Monarch Bay. Though I no longer am living as close to the beaches as, say, [Laguna Beach resident] Peter Lewis, I regularly walk them, and feel that those such as he should be more inclined to count their unique blessings than to express pique over such a very minor matter.
The banner planes have been a fixture of our beach environment for many decades (when I was a kid they sky-wrote their messages); they’ve never bothered me with their noise. It seems that those who have the most, complain the most. Will these people also want trucks forbidden from the Pacific Coast Highway? It’s absolutely unnecessary to do any more about these activities than what is now properly regulated. Sit back and enjoy them as part of our beach culture.
Jack Carpenter
San Juan Capistrano
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