Chapter: 5
Barefoot Revolution
- Revolution is not a Dinner Party
- The Tao of George
- Getting Slippery with Bob McTavish
- Bismarck with a Tan
- Plastic Machine
- Enlightenment at Honolua Bay
- Panic on the Showroom Floor
- Style Takes a Dive
- Everybody Must Get Stoned
- Surfer Goes Electrical Bananas
- No Contest
- There Will be Slaps
- Kook Straps, Cadillacs, and Sex Wax
- Blame it on the Boogie
- Country Soul
- Higher and Brighter with Alby Falzon
- Fresh Blood on the Newsstand
- Long Road to Bells Beach
- Speed Freaks
- Gods of Thunder
- The Impossible Wave
- Into the Vortex
- Gerry Lopez, Pipeline Firewalker
- The Rubberman Cometh
Kook Straps, Cadillacs, and Sex Wax
Surf leash, 1971
Shaun Tomson, 1976. Photo: Dan Merkel
San Diego County, 1974
Greg Weaver, San Diego County, 1975. Photo: Warren Bolster
Whatever problems and changes California surfers were going through in the 1970s, the state continued to do a few things well. It remained the sport’s design and manufacturing center. It produced the most (and most of the best) surf films. Surf-related products in general flourished between San Diego and Santa Cruz. One of the most popular was introduced in 1972, when a bearded Santa Barbara surf ...
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