{"id":17705,"date":"2014-10-11T02:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17705"},"modified":"2014-10-11T02:00:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T09:00:39","slug":"california-beach-hometown-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-beach-hometown-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"California Beach Hometown Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/dwights.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jack\u00a0Clapp operates a popular beach concession where he began working for his dad when he was 10. Back then \u00a0Hamburgers sold for 10-cents\u00a0and\u00a0Soda\u00a0cost\u00a05-cents.<\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>When a recent Edison High School 30-year reunion was about to take place, the organizers wanted alumni to re-taste their favorite foods and they turned to Jack Clapp, whose father started what is today Huntington Beach, California&#8217;s oldest continuous business run by the same family, &#8220;Dwight&#8217;s Beach Concession,&#8221; south of the HB Pier. &#8220;They loved our World Famous Cheese Strips and wanted the delicacy for their reunion,&#8221; Jack said. &#8220;My dad, Dwight, created this delicious item in 1939. It started off as tortilla strips and his special sauce, which includes vinegar, granulated garlic and several other secret items.\u00a0People come here re-living their youth and introducing the strips to their kids and grandkids.&#8221; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/people\/dwights-huntington-beach.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack\u00a0Clapp operates a popular beach concession where he began working for his dad when he was 10. Back then \u00a0Hamburgers sold for 10-cents\u00a0and\u00a0Soda\u00a0cost\u00a05-cents. By C. MacDonald When a recent Edison High School 30-year reunion was about to take place, the organizers wanted alumni to re-taste their favorite foods and they turned to Jack Clapp, whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}