A smooth-surfing Honolulu tomboy named Joey Hamasaki had her own signature model surfboard, as did Joyce Hoffman—both were marketplace failures. Still, women’s surfing posted a few gains during the boom. San Diego high school sophomore Linda Benson won the Makaha International in 1959, doing spinners and cutbacks like a wind-up toy, and later that year she was featured in Bud Browne's Cat on a Hot Foam Board. In 1964, Orange County surfer Linda Merrill became the first women to make the cover...
Chapter 4:
Ten-Year Boom
- Gidget the All-Powerful /
- The Rebel Next Door /
- Hobie vs Velzy vs the IRS /
- Better Surfing Through Chemistry /
- Summer on the Inside /
- Surf Fashion, Lightly Salted /
- Surfing the Newsstand /
- Process of Elimination /
- Oil City Showdown /
- The Jazz Stylings of Phil Edwards /
- Technicolor Surf Boom /
- Heroes and Villains /
- Blackball Blues /
- Dick Dale, Destroyer of Amps /
- Surfing in Five-Part Harmony /
- Tokyo to Tel Aviv /
- Flight of the Larrikin /
- Bob Evans Means Business /
- Midget Wins It All /
- But Will it Play in New York? /
- Houses of the Holy /
- We Own the Sidewalks /
- Beautiful from any Angle /
- Duke's Big Contest /
- Can You Handle the Penetrator? /
- Girls, Don't Panic! /
- David Nuuhiwa Walks on Water /
- An Invincible Summer /
