Chapter: 3
Malibu Swing
- Freezing the Moment with Doc Ball
- A Touch of Glamour
- Bob Simmons, Gnarled Genius
- Darrylin, Oh Darrylin
- The Magic Wave
- Velzy's Pig
- Dewey Weber, Hotdog Jesus
- Tubesteak Abides
- A Rebel for All Seasons
- The Valley Cometh
- Hawaii Calls
- Rocket to Makaha
- Buzzy Trent, King of Beasts
- Surfing's Beat Generation
- France and Peru Join In
- A Restart for Australia
- Bud Browne Presents
- Point Surf '58
- The Viking King of Mead Hall
- An Exorcism at Waimea
- A Farewell to Clubs
Dewey Weber, Hotdog Jesus
Dewey Weber, Malibu. Photo: LeRoy Grannis
Dewey Weber. Photo: LeRoy Grannis
Dewey Weber, Sunset. Photo: Don James
Dewey Weber, Hotdog Jesus
Dewey Weber, Hermosa. Photo: LeRoy Grannis
At just 17 years of age, Dewey Weber became the show. Red trunks, bleached-white hair, blinding foot speed. “People stood on the beach and pointed,” Weber once said. “You could actually see them pointing."
Surfing's performance standard in the mid-'50s was being reset almost month to month at Malibu, and the surfer doing the most to push things along was a flashy half-pint peroxide-blond high school wrestling star named Dewey Weber. Like Velzy, Weber came from a blue-collar Hermosa Beach family; his father drove a truck, and his mother was a factory worker. By the time he completed his first year of...
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