As I was getting coffee at the cafe this morning, I had a gentleman walk up to me and ask about the Bamboo Reef t-shirt I was wearing. He wanted to know if the business were still in operation, and I named Monterey and SF as ongoing locations. He then told me his father had been one of Bamboo Reef's three founders--with Al Giddings and Leroy French -- back in 1961. We chatted briefly, me asking about his father's name (which I now can't recall, grrr), and then he moved on.
I'm guessing he wasn't a diver like his father, or at least not a local diver, or he would have known . . . but we didn't talk about any of that.
I like how the man wanted to connect with something his father had helped make -- and to say it out loud -- and I, random fellow that I am, was able to participate as audience, as witness.
