BuffettNews.com

California's celebrated beach culture was dealt a blow Wednesday with the passing of 77-year-old surfer Terry "Tubesteak" Tracy, the man best known as the original Big Kahuna of Malibu. Tracy, the archetypal beach bum, lived on the Malibu shoreline for years, but his biggest contribution to American pop culture came by way of a nickname that he pegged to a young female surfer named Kathy Kohner. You know her as "Gidget."

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