{"id":31882,"date":"2012-08-23T13:13:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T20:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31882"},"modified":"2012-08-23T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T20:28:10","slug":"surf-legend-terry-tubesteak-tracy-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=31882","title":{"rendered":"Surf Legend Terry &#8220;Tubesteak&#8221; Tracy Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tubesteak-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tubesteak-1.jpg','popup','width=299,height=192,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tubesteak-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"128\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Tubesteak-1\" \/><\/a><strong>Terry &#8220;Tubesteak&#8221; Tracy<\/strong>, the legendary Malibu surfer who reportedly kicked off Hollywood&#8217;s love affair with surfing by loaning <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kathy_Kohner-Zuckerman\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy Kohner <\/a><\/strong>&#8220;a surfboard in exchange for a peanut butter sandwich&#8221; has died, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/news\/tracy-369302-malibu-surf.html\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. He was 77 years old.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As he told the Register in 2002, he took to sleeping on the beach at Malibu in the mid 1950s and built a wooden shack that included palm fronds and thatched bamboo mat. He lived in it for two years, holding court there as many of the best surfers of the day would surf at Malibu. A girl appeared one day at the shack \u2013 which eventually was bulldozed \u2013 and she wanted to surf, Tracy said. The girl reminded Tracy of a short girl he&#8217;d once met at a party, named Gidget. He said he told this newcomer to the shack that he&#8217;d loan her a surfboard in return for a peanut butter sandwich she was carrying. He took to calling her Gidget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The girl&#8217;s father wrote the book <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0425179621\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0425179621&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sacklunch\" target=\"_blank\">Gidget<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and we all know the rest of the story. Tracy later became a fixture at San Onofre beach. According to the story he &#8220;died peacefully at his home Wednesday.&#8221; Our thoughts are with his family and friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/news\/tracy-369302-malibu-surf.html\" target=\"_blank\">OC Register<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry &#8220;Tubesteak&#8221; Tracy, the legendary Malibu surfer who reportedly kicked off Hollywood&#8217;s love affair with surfing by loaning Kathy Kohner &#8220;a surfboard in exchange for a peanut butter sandwich&#8221; has died, according to a story in the OC Register. He was 77 years old. As he told the Register in 2002, he took to sleeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31882"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31885,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31882\/revisions\/31885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}