Town & Country

As DC put it, whether you're 30 or 30,000 blocks away, everyone is excited about El Porto. To keep up appearances, a regular feature of the blog will be to keep the readership educated about the history, entertainment, and general quirkiness of the 32 acre beach enclave.

This post's title is a reference to a conversation I had with fellow hawaiian transplant KS over the weekend. After checking out the new digz, we headed down Ocean Ave. toward the House of Lords for a night of revelry. We started talking and I mentioned that we needed to head "to town," implying that we were leaving the "country."

For Hawaiians these words carry some weight. If you go to Oahu, you will hear people from the south side of the island (Honolulu and surrounding metro area refer to this part of the island as "town"), while if you're from the North Shore, that part of the island is known as "country." There is even a world-class surf shop and Hawaii establishment dedicated to this jargon.

Town is well known for its hustle and bustle and fast paced lifestyle, while Country is what it sounds like: a laid back, one road, low privacy community.

As we drove through the Porto to Town to meet up with the Lords, we got a good laugh drawing on the parallels between T&C in Hawaii, and T&C in the South Bay. Despite the recent name change and increase in pilates studios popping up along our one main road, there are still traces of the El Porto of old.

In the future, a regular feature on the blog will be reviews of some of these establishments with recommendations and a brief history from the proprietors:

Future Scheduled Features:
- El Porto Market
- The Beach Hut
- Sloopys
- Toullouis Antiques
- El Porto Surfboards


Shout out to BC and KS for a sick sesh crushing the waveage in Town on Saturday morning

CEO