"STATUS IS . . . FOR SURFERS: A KEY TO CALIFORNIA'S BEST PRIVATE BEACH," BY MATT WARSHAW (1998)
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This article ran in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, on November 15, 1998. * * * About a million California surfers don't own land on the private and utterly sublime Hollister Ranch, located on Point Conception, just up from Santa Barbara, Calif. A hundred do. That ratio helps explain why Ranch surfers are so often described in impolite terms—as self-indulgent trust-fund brats, bloodsucking be...
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