A personal reflection on the transformation of Malibu from a modest beach town to a symbol of wealth and excess, as seen through the lens of a childhood spent there.
As I drove up Pacific Coast Highway, the postcard places of my childhood rushed by. The Malibu Feed Bin — the country store where our family sold wildflower honey made from the dozens of beehives we tended in our backyard. The Reel Inn — where we sat at picnic tables and gobbled down cut-rate seafood, and where my dad once asked a guy in line about an acting job.
My dad had a long career as an actor, transcending a fairly bleak working-class upbringing in the Pacific Northwest, to repertory theater and then innumerable roles in TV and movies. My dad knew and worked with several of the folks who lived in the bigger, grander houses down on the beach — Ryan O'Neal, Lloyd Bridges, Yul Brynner. But he was a bit of a loner and never became a creature of Hollywood.
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