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Article: IT'S WHERE THE SAND MEETS THE STIR-CRAZY : INDOOR BEACH `VOLLEYBARS' GROW POPULAR.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- November 3, 1996
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Byline: Chris Carola Associated Press
On a chilly autumn night, the cars begin pulling up to a row of old warehouses tucked between a back street and a busy interstate. In ones and twos, people in athletic clothing walk through a lighted door and onto the beach.
Well, not exactly a beach, but three sand volleyball courts in a former cigarette and coffee warehouse. For sand volleyball players, life can be a beach, even if there's three feet of snow outside and the thermometer reads 10-below.
At Albany's Planet Volleyball, the growing popularity of indoor sand volleyball as an antidote the cold-weather blahs is evidenced by the swarm of people in ...