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
Duke's Big Contest
Ben Aipa, 1967 Duke contest. Photo: Don James
Duke, with 1965 finalists: Hakman, Pomar, Strauch
Jeff Hakman, 1965 Duke winner. Photo: LeRoy Grannis
Kimo McVay (left) with Jock Sutherland and Duke Kahanamoku
Fred Hemmings, 1965 Duke contest. Photo: Ron Stoner
The Duke Invitational became the sport's most prestigious event. A small, hand-picked field of surfers in a one-day battle at Sunset Beach. No small-wave grubbing here. You didn't win at Sunset with head-dips, or spinners, or any other tricks.
The surf media came out in force to witness and record the debut 1965 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational, the last and probably noblest commercial use to which the aging Olympian put his name. Honolulu promoter Kimo McVay was the driving force behind the event. McVay had been Kahanamoku’s manager since 1961. He opened the popular Duke Kahanamoku’s nightclub in Waikiki—where singer Don Ho, five nights a ...
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