surfboard shop
Retail outlet for surfing equipment and related products, as well as a time-tested cultural stronghold. "Surf shops," journalist Craig Stecyk wrote in 1996, "function as the sport's information centers, supply depots, halfway houses, classrooms, libraries, churches, banks and museums."
California surfboard shaper Dale Velzy is sometimes credited as the inventor of the surf shop, opening his first Velzy Surfboards outlet in 1950 in Manhattan Beach, California, not long after the city closed t...