1968 SANTA CRUZ AAAA CONTEST, AS SHOT BY BRAD BARRETT

The Santa Cruz AAAA was held on the weekend of April 6-7, at Santa Cruz Rivermouth. SURFER Magazine went big on the coverage (seven pages; the Duke Invitational, held a few months earlier, got just six) because this was the first contest to feature the Western Surfing Association's newly-created AAAA division. At the time, as writer Drew Kampion noted, it was "as professional a classification as a...

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