SAM REID: THE ORIGINAL GRUMPY OLD SURFER

New Jersey's Sam Reid learned to surf in 1912, at age seven, after watching Duke Kahanamoku give a wave-riding demonstration in Atlantic City. Reid later moved to California, then Hawaii, surfing and socializing with Tom Blake and the Kahanamoku brothers. Blake and Reid are credited as the first surfers to ride Malibu, in 1927. Reid probably wasn't the first surfer to become disillusioned with ho...

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