Catalina Past Times: Coin Diving

AVALON—The Catalina Island Express rolls into Avalon Harbor these days with very little fanfare. No children clad in bathing suits chanting “throw a coin” greet her arrival into port; that treas

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Mary K. Riewer says:

September 20, 2021 at 12:33 pm

Coin Diving

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Mary K. Riewer says:

September 20, 2021 at 12:36 pm

You would fight to the death over a coin. It was Darwinism at it’s finest. I remember competing with a much bigger diver for a quarter… He grabbed my flipper and hauled me back and away, and I bit him in return. I used to blow my hard-earned change at the Arcade or taking myself out to a movie. I really loved diving for coins and was so sorry the custom ended.

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