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
Oil City Showdown
Huntington Pier, late 1950s
1966 US Championships. Photo: Ron Stoner
1959 West Coast champion Jack Haley
1965 US Champion Joyce Hoffman. Photo: Ron Church
1964 US champion Ron Sizemore. Photo: Grannis
The first West Coast Surfing Championships were held in 1959 at Huntington Beach Pier. Four years later the meet was upgraded to become the United States Surfing Championships, and it was the only West Coast surf event where spectators had a real presence: hundreds came out for the debut event, and turnout during the mid-'60s often hit ten-thousand or more. The contest took place in September, whi...
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