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1930s: Mid-Decade
The following is a chapter in LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 3: The 1930s to be published by year's end:7. Mid-1930sBy the mid-1930s, “the surf world remained for the most part tri-cornered – practiced in...
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Canoe Drummond
Ron “Canoe” Drummond (1907-1996)In his late 20s by the mid-1930s, Ron Drummond was born in Los Angeles, raised in Hollywoodand, as a kid, summer vacationed at Hermosa Beach. During summers, in the...
View ArticleSurfari to Newquay, 1929
This grainy film captures the moment when Lewis Rosenberg attempted stand-up surfing for the first time in Britain. The video was taken in 1929 and records the travels of three friends who caught the...
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Sean Collins (1952-2011)
Sean Collins has passed on.Sean Collins Biography and Photos | SURFLINE.COMSurfline Founder Sean Collins Dies
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In remembrance of all of the friends and family members that left us and are now riding the great wave in the sky. We miss you, we love you, your thoughts and memories will always be with us. Aloha2011...
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Australian Surfing, 1912
First known picture of Australian surfing: Tommy Walker, 1912: And article about it:http://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/6670-australias-first-surfing-photograph
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Harold Iggy Ige
Iggy has left us. Pez and Randy Naish wrote a rememberance at: The Surfer's Journal
View Article1930s: Prelude
The human act of riding ocean waves on floatation devices has been going on for thousands of years. We, in fact, do not know how many thousands of years. It has been reasonably estimated that the act...
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1930s: Beginning
For surfing, the 1930s can be said to have begun with the Pacific Coast Surfing Championships begun in 1928 and Honolulu’s Ala Wai races that ran in 1929 and 1930, both of them backdrops to Tom Blake’s...
View ArticleSion Milosky (1976-2012)
Remembering one of the North Shores humblest chargers, Sion Milosky... Also at: http://www.dailysurfvideos.com/videos/r-i-p-sion-milosky-1976-2011-331
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Michael Peterson (1952-2012)
Michael Peterson has passed on. Another legend lost. Our condolences to Michael's family. Our memory of him lives on.Michael's earliest years surfing:...
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Australian Surfing, 1911-1912
Further documentary evidence that, contrary to most conventional histories on the beginning days of surfing in Australia, Duke Kahanamoku was not the first one to introduce surfing...
View ArticleInternational Surfing Day
And now, a slight break from surf history... We got a mention by Assembly Member Das Williams, commemorating the official 8th year of International Surfing Day... yeah, he's my son!Monday, June 18 2012...
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Early Japanese Surf History
As with most all areas of the planet, Japanese surfing began with the use of the body board (a.k.a. "belly board").Image circa 1911.Recently, some valuable research into early Japanese board surfing...
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Hobie Alter
Hobart "Hobie" Alter is probably best known for his work with foam and fiberglass surfboards in the late 1950s and early '60s. But, he didn't stop there. Surf writer Scott Hulet noted in a 1997 profile...
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Teahupoo History
The history of Teahupoo, courtesy of SURFER:The history of the Teahupoo waves and surf break
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Terry "Tubesteak" Tracy (1935-2012)
Tube passed on, August 2012. Pez wrote a fine obit for him at:Terry "Tubesteak" Tracy (1935-2012) | The Surfer's Journal
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Earliest English Surf: 1890
A long-lost letter, published for the first time, reveals that the two Piikoi brothers and their English guardian went surfing at the Yorkshire resort of Bridlington in September...
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LEGENDARY SURFERS V.3: 1930s
At long last, I stopped procrastinating and finally did the technical work to make LEGENDARY SURFERS Volume 3: The 1930s ... a reality.Volume 3 is a continuation of the chronological history I have...
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