A recent lunch with Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean fame led to talk about how to pay tribute to Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson, who died last week, the president and CEO of Huntington Beach’s marketing organization recalled.
“I was having lunch with Dean Torrence … and he was very close to the Wilson family,” Kelly Miller of Visit Huntington Beach said Friday. “One of our staff members, just before we went to lunch — we call him Cool Kevin, he’s a big surfer — and he said we should do something for Brian like a paddle out, so Dean and I were chatting some more, and we decided we should do this.”
Coincidentally, Saturday is International Surfing Day, and Friday was the anniversary of Wilson’s birthday…