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www. Char l es tonRet i rementL i v i ng. com | www.MPSen i or L i v i ng. com senior living 5 hot cocoa for everybody in the mornings. And when people wrote something negative about them, “she defended us in the papers,” noted Proctor, who like Coste, grew up on Sullivan’s Island. Proctor rode a 9’2’’ yellow Malibu popout that cost around $70. He recalled in those early days, when CCSC members surfed next to the Isle of Palms pier, that a Mr. Thomas who ran the pier bait shop would always be yelling at them while they were out there surfing. But there are no hard feelings. “He was a good man,” assured Proctor. Sally Price and her older sisters Lucy and Nancy, who moved to the islands from Asheville in the early 1960s, were CCSC’s only female original members. “I started surfing when I was 11 years old,” recounted Sally Price. She relished the camaraderie and road-tripping odysseys to contests at premier East Coast surf spots like Cocoa Beach and Virginia Beach. Despite there being very few women, the Prices always felt welcome. “Hal and Tommy were our big brothers,” she reflected. “They were the best.” Sally’s sister, Lucy Price Jacobs, remembered surfing all winter, even though they didn’t have wetsuits, which were late arriving to the East Coast. The island weather occasionally dipped into the 30s, so CCSC’s members combated the cold with fires lit inside 50-gallon burn barrels. Shivering surfers huddled around the blaze for warmth, noses running, “just enjoying every minute of it,” proclaimed Jacobs. “We would warm up and head back out.” In 2012, Proctor, Coste and Jacobs were interviewed for a Will Lucas surfing documentary called “Board Shorts.” An East Coast surf historian and videographer, Lucas, now deceased, had a prolific career, producing over 200 surf videos and five feature-length documentaries. “Board Shorts” shares a series of vignettes examining the East Coast surfing lifestyle of the 1960s and 70s. During one clip, Coste related how CCSC launched as an informal thing; Photos by Wi l l i am Beebe .