Righteous readers who saw our post about the Frog House being endangered inform that a Facebook page has been created to save the legendary Newport Shores surf shop.
You'll find the page here: Facebook.com.
]
Here is the description:
A Group dedicated to helping save one of the oldest and most renowned
surf shops in the U.S.A. A landmark for surfers going back to 1972 the
Frog House has been an icon and a living tribute to the Newport of old!
Save the Frog House from being ousted by petty regulations and the
“new” Newport establishment that wants the world to look like Newport
Coast!
City officials say the Frog House is one of four “nonconforming” properties that do not meet residential zoning standards for the area passed in the 1970s.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.