"Sunset Shot, Ventura County Style" by John Thomas

(Photo source: Photo by & Copyright John Thomas 2011. Used here with permission.)

Heads up! Just in from LACo (and L.A. City) Recurrent and OLS, Retired, John Thomas, a most amazing shot of the setting sun earlier this evening, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, somewhere off the coast of Ventura County.

From: John Thomas
Subject: Surfin at faria Ventura county .... Lookin good
Date: January 7, 2011 5:09:36 PM PST
To: Will Maguire

"course ye kin use the pix.... Surf is picking up..."

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John Thomas (aka, JT) Close up:

A handful of photos over the past 5 or 6 years at lifeguard events where JT has been captured on digital media with the "County Recurrent" archival camera equipment:

Below, at the Ron Brown Memorial on Santa Monica North several years ago; L2R: Angus Alexander, Kirk Thomas, Pat Jones, Alan Castro and JT:


Below, at the now legendary and infamous DWP (Doman Wisdom Powers) Retirement Party on the Santa Monica Pier at Rusty's, circa Spring 2004, shown here with Norton Wisdom:


Below, from June 2008 at Jimmy Makuta's Retirement Party at Jay Hopkins' house; shown here with young Renny and his dad, retired Santa Monica City and LACo Recurrent, Ron Richmond:


And last but not least, just a week ago, on Dec. 27, 2010 in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., while palling around with his fellow LACo veteran/retired OLS, Bill Powers and his golden retriever, LR:


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Thanks JT for sharing your cool photo and for your energy, enthusiasm, and friendship! Keep shootin' photos and we will keep posting. Hopefully, some more of your contemporaries will join in and help us post more lifeguard related content of interest to our readership. We are still holding our breath on a long ago promised story from Harold Dunnigan... ahem, ahem... :-)

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Until next time.....


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