Chapter: 4
Ten-Year Boom
- Gidget the All-Powerful
- The Rebel Next Door
- Hobie vs Velzy vs the IRS
- Better Surfing Through Chemistry
- Summer on the Inside
- Surf Fashion, Lightly Salted
- Surfing the Newsstand
- Process of Elimination
- Oil City Showdown
- The Jazz Stylings of Phil Edwards
- Technicolor Surf Boom
- Heroes and Villains
- Blackball Blues
- Dick Dale, Destroyer of Amps
- Surfing in Five-Part Harmony
- Tokyo to Tel Aviv
- Flight of the Larrikin
- Bob Evans Means Business
- Midget Wins It All
- But Will it Play in New York?
- Houses of the Holy
- We Own the Sidewalks
- Beautiful from any Angle
- Duke's Big Contest
- Can You Handle the Penetrator?
- Girls, Don't Panic!
- David Nuuhiwa Walks on Water
- An Invincible Summer
Can You Handle the Penetrator?
John Peck, Haleiwa, 1964
Weber Surfboards team, 1966. Photo: LeRoy Grannis
Ad for Mickey Dora's "Da Cat" model, 1967
Bing Surfboard models, 1966-1968
Board design was the quiet part of the post-Gidget surf boom. There were no groundbreaking changes between the late '50s and the mid-'60s, just refinement. Dale Velzy’s wide-backed “pig,” introduced in the mid-'50s and still popular at the turn of the decade, was replaced by a more uniformly-curved silhouette—less hips, more nose. The “roundpin” tail outline was introduced as a hybrid between the ...
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