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I stumbled across that familiar plastic tube in a toy store at an outlet mall in Myrtle Beach, SC around '87-88. Went in the store shopping for my 2yo daughter and ended up buying them on impulse not having any idea what a stunt kite was. Rick Kligman discovered me set up on the beach near his store and gave me the back story on the kite and why the company was no longer in business. The fact that I was using a six pack of Rainbows to learn how to fly must have left an impression since he gave me a part time job flying for the shop. I give the credit to Steve Edeiken though, because those kites came with incredibly detailed directions and I studied them religiously.

I was 17 when I first visited California in the summer of 1977 for the first time. While there I did and saw some amazing things like going to see Led Zeppelin, Rick Derringer, and Judas Priest at the Oakland Raiders Coliseum with two older biker friends that I met who lived in San Pablo. A scalped ticket cost me $20.00 and I still have the newspaper article where the drummer was booked in Oakland jail for fighting with the promoter. Also visited Fishermans wharf where I went to a kite shop. There I purchased a 6 pack of Rainbow stunt kites in a tube which I still have and another 6 that I bought off eBay a few years ago. One Red, Two Orange, Two Yellow, Two Green, Two Purple different shades of purple, and One White. Still have the original wooden handles also. Only flew them once and didn't want to risk crashing them so I stored them away. Since then I've been back a couple of times and raced a street luge at Laguna Seca and filmed the Guinness Show in Bakersfield with a rocket powered luge. I know this isn't helping you locate any kites but it brought back lots of great memories from Ca. fastlanerocketluge.com website will expire in May of 22