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 treasured pastime belongs to the children who grew up on the island between the 1890s and 1960s.
“Coin diving” on Catalina...
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Coin Diving
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.