Aloha,
From John Bishop: re: Bill "Hadji" Hein: This info is for all who knew him or would
have liked to. Sadly he passed at 10:00 PM last night, Thursday. We will be
planning a paddle out in about 3 weeks.
He would be turning 92 next week and had just renewed his motor cycle license last
week. He served as a Lifeguard in the late 1930's along Mission Beach.
Here is Hadji on the right with Doc Paskowitz:
From Al Hunt: Magazines Wanted: To complete my collection of 60’s mags I need a few
Makaha programs and only a few others.
What I am after are some missing ones and others that need upgrading.
Willing to buy, trade or partial trade/buy. Not willing to pay extortion prices though.
They are:
Competition Surf Summer 1967 volume 2#1.
Greg Noll Funnies and Cartoon.
Petersen’s Yearbook 1963 HARDBOUND (does it exist)
SI Surfing Illustrated volume 4#1 June. My cover is not too good.
Surf by Mike Mann 1977 volume 1#4 Fall. Again cover poor.
Surfing East volume 1#2 Fall 1965.
Surfing News Voice of Surfing World EAST COAST edition March 1867 volume 1#1.
Surfer Calendars 1963-74 and 1981
Surfing Calendar 1980
Makaha programs 4th, 5th, 8th, 17th and 21st. Not sure if 18th – 1970 exists. Randy
Rarick and myself believe it does not but if someone has one please tell us.
That’s it for old stuff but I still need some new stuff so if anyone has collections
of:
Californian ‘Waves” mag , “Surf Scene”, East Coast “Waverider”, East Coast “Shred”,
“Inside del Mar”, “Hapa”, “Jacksonville Surfer” or “South East Surfer” as it was
named later, “North Coast Surf Express”, “Kema”, “Gulf Coast Surf”, “FLA Surf”,
“Flat”, “Channel”, “Beach n Waves” and finally “Atlantic Surfer”.
I need select editions of these titles to complete my collection and have over 5,000
magazines to trade with or can purchase as long as a reasonable price, which these
mags should be as they are mostly 1980 onwards.
Help Al complete the most extensive collection in the world.
Currently just over 14,800 different magazines.
Better in Al's collection than in your garage or storage room.
From Jeremy Oxenden: A "Surf Double Feature Friday" will be held on June 11th at the
OC Tavern in San Clemente, Ca. Rell Sunn Bronze Memorial Project and Surfing
Heritage Foundation will host a fundraiser with a night of film, fun and music.
http://www.rellsunn.com/events.htm
Also: On the grass is a replica Hawaiian Olo made by Tom P Stone from Willie Willie
wood or bred fruit, I think - Peter Robinson giving a surf history talk holding Jack
Cousteau style diving suit. http://www.museumofbritishsurfing.org.uk/
From Jim Kempton: Billabong Pro J-Bay, will bring the world’s top 45 ranked
professional surfers to the renowned waves of Jeffreys Bay in July.Scheduled for
15-25 July, Stop No. 4 of 10 on the 2010 ASP World Tour will again be staged at
Supertubes. http://www.billabongpro.com/
From Fernando: Liquid Nation Ball 7, the largest surfing industry fundraiser for 13
humanitarian organizations, will be held on the Saturday night, August 14th. SIMA
Humanitarian of the Year award to San Diego resident Jason Mraz, a surfer, fellow
humanitarian and well known singer and composer.
http://www.sima.com/events/liquid-nation-ball.aspx
From Michael Kew: Board Swap - Free Admission, Tacos and Beer.
WHERE: Fletcher Chouinard Designs
43 S. Olive St. Ventura, CA 93003
WHEN:
Saturday, June 26th 12-4 pm
Those interested in selling at the Board Swap must pre-register with FCD. There is
no fee to participate. Deadline to register is June 23, by 5 pm. Spaces are expected
to fill quickly. Reply to this email () to reserve a space.
http://twitter.com/fcdsurfboards/
Recently have been in touch with Gene Brown via Mike Jipp. Gene did the cartoon book
Hodad's Beware and worked on surf movies and posters.
He has written of some fun/interesting adventures in his day to Mike and okayed me
pasing them along:
Mike: You do have some treasures. The June 24 1963 Don Brown long poster. I did the
lettering on it. It was one of our last shows on the west coast before we headed
east. Greg Noll. Is he still alive? He and I were in my 1947 Mercury Woodie and
got lost in New York City. We circled an area close to Times Square for two hours
before we found our hotel. He was quite tired from the flight. Puts several
quarters into a magic fingers thing that vibrates the mattress and we were awake all
night. Other than that the east coast tour was fun times. Loaned my Velzy board to
a guy who won the east coast championship with it.....on really wimpy waves. On the
trip Don Brown and I spent a few nights with Murph the Surf who gained fame for his
late night visit to a museum to pick up the Star of India diamond. We also surfed
Nags Head when it was beyond description for no people and beautiful sets. And a
lot of other places. Hope all is well your way. Brown
and one more, some light duplication:
Mike:
Fasten your seat belt this is going to be a bumpy one. Borrowed my surfboards
before going in the Army in 1959. Bought a small Velzy the week I got out and used
it from the Huntington Cliffs down to K-39 in Baja. A stripper who worked at the
Largo on Sunset Blvd. teamed me up with a publisher Robert I. Lethe who backed my
first book Hodads Beware! He paid the rent for three months on a place in Venice.
I showed up three weeks later and he was a bit stern about how come I wasn't out
working? Because Hodads Beware! was finished. It sold quite well...about 10,000
copies of the first edition and then, I think, 5,000 for an oversized second
edition. For Lethe, I also drew three different surf posters that sold pretty good.
One thing leads to another. Met somebody in Carmel, California when Davey Williams
(of Williams Low Buck Tools) and I were headed for the 1962 Worlds Fair in Seattle
in a restored 1933 Packard. Dave's dad owned Williams Sporting Goods in the 1940's
and fifties. He belonged to the San Onofre Beach Club and was an early promoter and
seller of surfboards in Orange County. Guy from Carmel who was a tourist from LA
invited me to party at Don Brown's home in Pasadena. Don had produced Surf's Up and
Have Board Will Travel. They bombed at first. I arranged an appropriate sound
track for them and away they went. I narrated both these films up and down the east
and west coast in l963 and l964. We were pioneers in the east when we showed up in
a 1949 Chevrolet milk truck made to sleep in. Showed surf films in Great Neck, Long
Island and other towns there I can't remember. Highlight was in Surf City New
Jersey where we were greeted with open arms by Wimpy Paulsworth, a popular local
character. We played the movies for about a week in the local Fire House to very
enthusiastic crowds. Then down to Virginia Beach, Florida and finally to the home
of Murph the Surf. Great visit. While heading south I had one of my greater surfing
moments. Nags Head North Carolina was deserted then. We had miles of beach to
ourself/ Following summer the late Jim Freeman and I took both Don Brown and
Freeman films east. We did quite well. That summer I picked up Greg Noll at a New
York Airport. He had come east to promote his boards and surfing in general. I
mentioned in a previous email that we circled this one area in NYC for two hours
before finding our hotel. We had to share a bed. Greg puts coins into the Magic
Fingers box which got the bed to shaking all night long. I remember Greg
commenting..."What is going on? We fight new york city traffic and then spent the
night in a bed that shakes like a Model T Ford." He was well received at shows in NY
and New Jersey. Forgot to mention. The previous summer I loaned my Velzy board to
a hot local surfer who won the east coast championships with it. Along the way met
Bob Zelley who had ordered a Hobie Board in the 1950's and had a signed letter from
Hobie Alter indicating that Hobie hoped he enjoyed the board. That board is still
in the family. Assorted tid bits. Don Brown knew almost everybody of note in the
world of surfing. Apparently there were some fine times in the islands with Bud
Browne, Freeman, Severson, Noll, Rick Grigg, Butch Van Arnsdale and many more. So.
Brown wanted me to write a surf movie for the big screen. I did. It was
originally called Surfari. Talk about a fried rice foul up. Brown did most of the
directing which took place in Hermosa and Redondo Beach. The late Milton Blair
claims to have written this movie and changed the name to Blue Surfari. Not so. I
busted my ass on it in the spring of 1964 and it premiered on Hollywood Boulevard I
believe in 1968. Somebody really did a number on it. It was embarrassing to watch
but did have some good wave action. During all this I met Dick Dale of Dick Dale
and the Del Tones. Mentioned him in one of my Hodads Beware! books. Everybody else
I mentioned threatened to sue me. Not Dick. He invited me down to his house for
dinner and we were pretty good friends for awhile. I would go with him when he did
the music for some of those beach blanket bingo flicks of the early sixties. Had
some nice talks with Annette Funicello. She was a lovely person. Incidentally Dick
really could surf. He was a good guy but got screwed by people he trusted and
turned a tad cynical after awhile. Dale Velzy was one of my favorite guys. He was
shaping down by Newport Beach and I remember his lack of respect for some who had
been formally educated. He knew me but when some of my buddies from Orange Coast
College came along he would ask them if they were college pricks or did they really
know anything. I liked to hear Velzy talk about his archery exploits. A big part of
surf history for many of us was the Redenvouz Ball Room in Newport Beach. Fun
times? Oh, boy. Looked like bleached blonde surfer convention on saturday nights.
Woodies predominated. I did cartoon surf murals from northern California to Seattle
in the sixties. They are probably all gone now. Will continue this but will close
now with. I had an incredible collection of surf stuff. My home, manuscripts I'd
worked on for two years, about 5,000 books, family heritage going back to the
1840's, rare WWII stuff my uncles had brought home and more all burned up. In one
hour our home went to the ground. It was just before Christmas a couple of years
ago. My wife died two days before Christmas and as we had been a 37 year love
affair it was horrible for awhile. I'll never be able to get some of the surfing
stuff I had but would like to get a repro, if possible, of Don Brown's Surfs Up and
Have Board, Will Travel and now Issue No. l of Hodads Beware. I also would dearly
like to find a vid of Have Board, Will Travel and Surf's Up. As memories return
will send you more. Gene
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Aloha,
From Wendy Lee: A reminder about this Saturday:
DIANE SANDERS MEMORIAL AND PADDLE OUT
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when: Saturday, June 12th @ 9:00am
where: Malibu Surfrider Beach
where: 23050 PCH
. a pot-luck lunch will follow the paddle out
From Gary Lynch: Michael Kew article about trains and surfing - Surflining:
http://www.independent.com/news/2010/may/31/surflining/
From Ben Marcus: re: Randolph James' Santa Cruz pics and jots:
He is right that the Santa Cruz/San Lorenzo Rivermouth is not usually good in July,
but there are exceptions.
During the El Nino summer of 1982/1983, the Rivermouth had an epic sandbar that
lasted well into August.
I had a hotdog wagon on the beach at Seabright/Castle Beach then and I remember
leaning out of the back day after day, and watching Rivermouth firing during a
summer that had an awful lot of south swells.
Who knows how different Rivermouth was before they put the harbor in, but 1885
could have been an El Nino year, and there could have been perfect waves
breaking out there on a big southern hemi.
Good enough to make some princes chop down some trees and go surfboard swimming.
I asked Ben if I could run this stuff and he sent me another pic...very cool!
From MSA: The Malibu Surfing Association Classic will be Sept. 11-12 this year:
http://www.msasurfing.org/events/
From Betty Belts: Designer Donna von Hoesslin and partner photographer/filmmaker
David Pu'u were accompanied by surfers Mary Osborne, Jeanette Ortiz and Sierra and
Hailey Partridge to Bali and created a new design for each and each selected a cause
to have 10% of sales go to. http://www.bettybelts.com
From Tim De La Vega: Governor Linda Lingle today issued an executive order to
establish surfing reserves at two of Hawai‘i’s most important and well-known surfing
areas. The executive order “acknowledges the cultural, sports and historic