
The Alligators Of Malibu –
REAL STORIES of growing up in Malibu you HAVEN’T heard,
told by a Multiple Moth Story Slam Winner
Forget about the modern day 2025 Malibu you know of now,
a town for the exclusively rich and famous.
Back in the late 1970s, Malibu was a very different place, unrecognizable from the town you know now. Back then, there were still movie stars & rich people living there,
but unlike the modern day Malibu, the town also had “normal people” (not just rich and famous) and all kinds of eccentric characters who could still afford to live there.
The Country Mart, that now looks like an outdoor Beverly Hills mall with only exclusive high priced shops, had a Strawhat Pizza and a little movie theater that kids used to sneak in the side door to see the films for free. Malibu had a small town feel and not many parents who were “present”, so there was a lot more freedom (as well as danger) back in the day; i.e, doing drugs and riding minibikes down the PCHfor kids in Junior High was the norm.
In 1977, Michael-David Ker (who was just “David” back then) moved to Malibu with his family from a small town in New Yorks State, Valley Cottage, which was a place that couldn’t have been further from Malibu in terms of the culture.
Michael-David shares his (mostly humorous) stories of navigating his junior high years in this brand new world, where he felt like the black-haired black-sheep in this sea of blonde surfer kids, as he learned to adapt with his new Southern California Malibu tribe.
Drugs were plentiful back then and Michael-David went from trying to pot for his first time, to doing acid at 13.
As a teenager, he worked at a surf shop, Natural Progression, across from the Malibu Pier, where iconic surfers and Movie stars and eccentric characters would frequent.
As he got older, Michael-David became a writer and had a producer he was working with get into a bad position with the Mob.
Lots of crazy, mostly humorous, wild stories you WON’T HEAR about the early days in Malibu.
Written & Performed by Michael-David Ker
Directed & Developed by
Jessica Lynn Johnson