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A third is under construction in Atlanta and a fourth locale is due to be announced this week.

As you paddle out to the lineup, remember that surfing is more than just riding waves — it’s a community with its own subculture that can vary from locale to locale.

“It took an act of denial to make me go in,” he wrote about the locale, “and it took an act of God to keep me there. Time and again my eyes would slide over to that spot on the floor where the beacon came crashing down.”

I brushed aside plants, likely spooked a couple having coffee and frantically searched for what could be giving away my locale.

The Culver City lot still offers the occasional nod to its past, via architectural allusions to MGM’s history or artist Tony Tasset’s 94-foot, 2012-constructed rainbow that references “The Wizard of Oz,” which was filmed at the locale.