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Walking into the Frog House, you're met with an olfactory assault of wax, wetsuit and fiberglass while tripping over a leash as some towhead grom is putting fins on in the middle of the aisle. It looks as though a surf-obsessed fifth-grader decorated (or defaced )the shop with pictures of surfing and odd combos of broken fins, taxidermied sharks, a dive helmet with a woman's head inside, and a surf mural on the outside wall of the shop. But that's what you get when the owner has been around... More »
Since 1962, this dinky shop on the grubby (in a good way) far-west side of Newport Beach has been hawking surfboards, wetsuits and clothing. It was one of the first places anywhere to get a wetsuit after whoever invented wetsuits invented wetsuits. It's not unusual to be plowing though a row of suits to see if one from that first year is still hanging and hear, "Excuse me" from a dripping-wet, sand-encrusted surfer trying to get to the back, where the demo boards are stacked.... More »
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