Part of the Set for ‘The Lost Boys’ Just Fell Into the Sea

We’re heading toward the end of the year. What better time than to question your mortality? We’ll all be dead someday, it’s one of those things we all have in common (except maybe that billionaire who’s drinking his son’s blood or whatever). Everyone’s perception of time is different, but we all have things that make time seem like it’s moving even faster. Recently, it has been my kids. I’m watching them grow, every day, and that means the clock is ticking and will continue to do so long after I’m dead. I’m also into older pop culture.

My parents influenced what I watched or listened to. We didn’t always have the same tastes, but I was open to things they were showing me, especially movies. My older brother was a more “modern” influence, but he’s four years older than me, so I was never quite “relevant.” Beyond what my parents showed me, I was left to my own devices, which often involved going older. In 1999, I was a ten-year-old kid who loved the Monkees (and still do). Adam West was my Batman. Don’t even get young-me started on the comedic stylings of Don Knotts.

The snag with having a taste for things from before your time is that they’re already on their way out when you find them, if they’re still around at all. Adam West, Mickey Dolenz, and Don Knotts were all old men when I discovered them. Knotts passed away when I was in High School and I was devastated. I had cultivated tastes by then that were somewhat current, but my love of the past remained and I was witnessing its demise at an expedited rate.

One thing I love that isn’t too much older than me is The Lost Boys. It f***ing rules. It came out two years before I was born and I would see it on cable often. It’s my favorite horror movie by leaps and bounds. Style, scares, two Coreys, comedy, a ripped shirtless man playing the saxophone, Jami Gertz, it’s got it all. The movie was filmed in and around Santa Cruz, California, including shooting on a boardwalk and wharf. Now, part of that wharf has been reclaimed by the sea.

150 feet of the 2,745-foot wharf fell into the ocean after being subjected to winter weather and, ya know, being 110 years old. It was bound to happen eventually because everything goes away. There’s a sadness to seeing this piece of The Lost Boys lost to time, and just another reminder that we will all shuffle off this mortal coil whether we want to or not. We can pray to whoever we want or drink the blood of a head vampire from a strange bottle but the result will be the same.

You can watch the video below if you’d like to witness a physical manifestation of time’s passage. Merry Christmas.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by KSBW (@ksbw_8)