Chapter: 2
Gliding Return
- A Fine Little Revival
- Jack London Loves Purple
- California: The New Frontier
- Beachboy Life
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Surf Shooting Down Under
- The Bronzed Islander Shows How
- Surfing in the Jazz Age
- Tom Blake Redesigns the Sport
- What Depression?
- When Clubbies Ruled Australia
- Surfboard as Woodcraft
- Palos Verdes Surfing Club
- San Onofre: the Nearest Faraway Place
- Riding the Hot Curl
- Enter Makaha
- Death at Waimea
- The Overwhelming North Shore
Palos Verdes Surfing Club
PVSC. Photo: Doc Ball
Palos Verdes Cove. Photo: Doc Ball
PV Surf Club
PVSC cofounder Doc Ball
PVSC dinner
Six months after one of Palos Verdes Surf Club's top riders dropped out of college to spend more time on the beach, he was called to clubhouse floor and told to return to class or face expulsion. There was the occasional clubhouse booze-up, but PVSC members mostly all walked the line.
Surf club membership wasn’t mandatory for California surfers, but by the late 1930s you could have driven a Packard Super 8 from San Diego to Santa Cruz and had a hard time loading it up with nonaffiliated surfers. Unlike the surf-based organizations in Hawaii and Australia, these new clubs were focused on surfing, and a bit of paddling, and nothing else. California’s best-known and best-organized...
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