https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/shibumi-beach-sun-shade-04770fba?st=iSp81z
The $255 Beach Shade Dividing America’s Coastal Towns
- Some beachgoers love Shibumis for their simplicity and safety. Others consider them a nuisance, and some places have banned them.
By Fred A. Bernstein
Updated May 25, 2026 5:36 pm ET
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Invented by a trio of recent UNC-Chapel Hill graduates, Shibumis are practically an obsession in the Carolinas. Owners say they are easy to carry and set up and are safer than umbrellas, which can cause injuries or death when the wind uproots them. The company says it has sold about 500,000 Shibumis, many of them in the Carolinas.
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Ahhh, American inventiveness and stogy Gooferment bureaucrats can’t deal with it.
I wonder how the family of that lady who was killed by flying umbrella feels.
I guess no one has thought about the wheel chair accessible ramp at Island Beach State Park in Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee that provide an easy to walk “avenue” down to the water.
Would seem possible to create a “checkerboard” of “Avenues” and “Cross Streets” with what3words “addresses” that would begin order out of haphazard deployment.
Life Guards could align their “lanes” for speedy rescues without being delayed by random squatters.
In a truly little L libertarian world, an entrepreneur would own a beach and “rent” out spots. And competition would ensure that all options were available.
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