SPECIAL DELIVERY: JOCK SUTHERLAND'S LETTERS TO SURFER MAGAZINE, 1969 to 1990

Famous surfers used to write letters to the surf magazines. The hand-addressed envelopes arrived at the offices, sometimes weeks after being stamped and sealed, from around the world. Surf magazines were a big deal in the 1960s, '70s and '80s—before the internet, before cheap international phone rates, mostly before VCRs. You read the mags, studied them, handed them off to friends. And if you were...

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