Teddy and Andy Leonard watched helplessly from their nearby home as cameras posted on the deck of The Reel Inn Malibu showed blazing fires approaching the back of their famous fish shack.

If you knew Malibu, you knew the Crab Shack, that barn-red, century-old little house hugging the hillside just a few miles south of the pier. And if you knew the Crab Shack, you definitely knew ...