All photos by Mark Kawakami
It’s just another Torrance Beach Thursday morning. The waves are around two to three feet with a hint of offshore breeze. The local crew is posted in the parking lot waiting for the tide to dip down a foot or two at “Gotham Point” (the 1960s “Batman” series was once filmed at Torrance Beach.) Local surfer Candace Stalder pulls into the lot in her red 1965 Ford Country Squire, a car built in its era to carry the American Dream cliche of two kids an
