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# Thinking outside the docks
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/thinking-outside-the-docks-editor/
- Published: 2005-09-27T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:49:40.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Pier, #archive-import

*By Henry Rosenfeld Santa Monica*

Seeing as how the long-awaited Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. promises a gumbo of goodness when they open on the Santa Monica Pier soon, wouldn’t it be great if they hired some Katrina-crushed shrimper folk from down near New Orleans? How about the first week’s Bubba booty going to help hurricane victims?

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 27, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/092705.pdf?ref=smdp.com)