Chapter: 2
Gliding Return
- A Fine Little Revival
- Jack London Loves Purple
- California: The New Frontier
- Beachboy Life
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Surf Shooting Down Under
- The Bronzed Islander Shows How
- Surfing in the Jazz Age
- Tom Blake Redesigns the Sport
- What Depression?
- When Clubbies Ruled Australia
- Surfboard as Woodcraft
- Palos Verdes Surfing Club
- San Onofre: the Nearest Faraway Place
- Riding the Hot Curl
- Enter Makaha
- Death at Waimea
- The Overwhelming North Shore
Surfboard as Woodcraft
Waikiki, 1937
Santa Monica, 1930s
Pacific Systems Homes surfboard
Pete Peterson. Photo: Don James
DIY hollow surfboard
Hawaii invented surfing, and Waikiki remained by far the easiest and most agreeable place in the world to ride waves. Yet by the 1930s, Southern California was uniquely qualified to begin reinventing the sport. America’s capitalist-consumer culture had already transformed Los Angeles from an adobe village outpost into America’s most innovative and forward-looking big city. Now, it would turn its a...
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