A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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John Mendelssohn
Feb 16, 2010
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At 19 and 20, I was a parking attendant at two restaurants in Malibu. I felt the job conferred a certain amount of panache because Edd “Kookie” Byrne, the coolest character in the TV series 77 Sunset Strip, had parked cars. At one of the two restaurants, the Tonga Lei, just south of the Malibu Pier, there was a fair amount of danger involved. When the s…

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