Walk by Steve and Cathy Sherman’s 3-story house on 20th St. in downtown Huntington Beach and you may spot them sitting in a 2-seater lifeguard tower chair — on the roof.

“A lot of people will ask if we see anybody drowning,” says Steve Sherman, who lives about 5 blocks from the beach.

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The Shermans were really gracious when I showed up at their door one day and asked what it’s like up there.

They hauled out a 12-foot ladder so we could ascend to the roof from their top balcony. From that point, it’s a bit daunting — you have to walk across a narrow ledge to get to the spot where a crane deposited the chair. And then, of course, you have to climb up the chair itself to get to the seat.

The lifeguard chair actually sits on a neighbor’s adjacent roof and they all have equal access to it.

Steve Sherman, an attorney, said he paid about $1,200 for it when he saw the lifeguard chair sitting in a Pacific Coast Highway parking lot with a for-sale sign. He couldn’t resist. He collects throwbacks and odd artifacts – an antique typewriter, a crank phone from 1913, a wooden hobby horse on wheels, a juke box from an old diner. Even his house, Victorian-style, conjurs up another era.

Do you know of another home in Huntington Beach or elsewhere in Orange County with an unusual or quirky feature? Let us know in the comments, and maybe we’ll take some photos.