Redondo Beach: Lives well lived, 2022
Trading Post Owner was boater, diver, fisherman Joe Czuleger was a sailor, and powerboater; snow, and water skier; and freshwater and saltwater fisherman. He was also a hunter, horseman, bicyclist, private pilot, and SCUBA diver. He gave up golf for 30 years, but resumed playing after a heart attack. Czuleger ran the Redondo Trading Post (now called Redondo Marine Hardware), from 1953 to 2020. In 2020, the California DMV took away his driver’s license, but he continued to drive the store’s Caterpillar forklift. Redondo Marine, now run by his son Russ, is the last independent marine store between San Diego and Ventura. Czulger passed away at age 95, one day after Christmas 2021. After being drafted into the army following his junior year in high school, he was sent to the Philippines to fight the Japanese. He was in the first group of Americans to enter Hiroshima, after the atomic bomb was dropped. After the war, he was in one of the first classes at El Camino College. Czuleger and his wife Helen were married for 66 years. They had six children, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. To his 34 nieces and nephews he was lovingly known as uncle Joe. Paul Comon worked at…
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