Velzy, Dale
Swaggering, innovative surfboard designer, builder, and retailer from Hermosa Beach, California, best known for creating the "pig" in 1955, a wide-hipped board that became a prototype for today's longboard. "Dale could out-drink, out-shoot, out-ride, out-shape, out-sell and out-finesse all comers," Surfer's Journal wrote in 1994. "And he made it all up as he went along." Velzy was born (1927) and...
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Dale Velzy, 1966 International Surfing Hall of Fame Awards. Photo: GrannisSubscribe to view
Velzy Surfboards label, late 1950sSubscribe to view
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Dale Velzy, Manhattan Pier, 1951. Photo: Dennis Shanelec.Subscribe to view
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Dale Velzy
Dale Velzy, 1966 International Surfing Hall of Fame Awards. Photo: Grannis
Velzy Surfboards label, late 1950s
Dale Velzy, Hermosa Beach
Dale Velzy, Manhattan Pier, 1951. Photo: Dennis Shanelec.
Dale Velzy shaping, early '50s