"THERE'S A SURFBOARD REVOLUTION GOING ON!" DICK GRAHAM (1968)

I'm 93% sure that a heavy-set 30-year-old ex-Marine named Dick Graham is the person responsible for the phrase "shortboard revolution." In October of 1967, Graham flew from Los Angeles to Sydney with the Windansea surf team. What he saw on the Northern Beaches blew his crew-cut-topped mind. News traveled slowly in that pupating age of surf media, and nobody in America had any idea what Bob McTavis...