Waikiki Surf Club
Casual but well-organized and highly decorated surfing club founded in 1948 by California-born John Lind, and originally located on the Waikiki beachfront; best known as a founding sponsor of the Makaha International Surfing Championships.
Lind was a 25-year-old surfer and hotel supply employee when he moved from Long Beach, California, to Honolulu, in 1939. Wasting no time, he put himself in the middle of the post-war Waikiki surf scene, founded the Hawaiian Surfing Association, and began t...