Palos Verdes Surfing Club

All-male California surfing club cofounded in 1935 by John "Doc" Ball, dentist and surf photographer, and Adolph Bayer; the second such club in mainland America, following the short-lived Corona del Mar Surfboard Club, formed in the late '20s. Bayer wanted to name the group the Cove Paddleboard Riders Fraternity, but Ball demurred—as a USC student he'd had his fill of fraternities—and countered wi...