Surfs up for NEW Taco Beach surfer!

Taco Beach gets it right
 and redesigns the Abbeyfield Surfer

Taco Beach's improved Abbeyfield Surfer

After three weeks, Taco Beach replaced the "rock surfer" art on the Abbeyfield wall that

was referred to as "tacky".  

The new Abbeyfield Surfer that now stands at the entrance to the

Los Altos Center Adjacent Neighborhood has water, a surfboard with the words "Taco Beach", and crisp lines and features unlike the previous brown "dot" surfer who stood on a pile of brown rocks.

Now with door handles!

Also added at Taco Beach are real door handles ( so now the doors are closed and no longer violate the CUP/ABC restrictions) and the air conditioning is fixed.

After LACAN posted about the previous surfer, Press-Telegram columnist Tim Grobaty wrote about the controversy. In Grobaty's May 14th column he wrote:

...owner Kevan Vance is being typically reasonable about the complaint.  "If someone finds an artist they like more and want to pay for a different mural, well be glad to let them put it up" .

Whether Vance finally took a good look at the old surfer and paid to fix it, or some patron of the arts pitched in, LACAN thanks them for the improvement.

The building now looks like it belongs in Los Altos, not in TJ.