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Rich Harbour, who started one of the most legendary surf shops in Southern California over 60 years ago, died Sunday at 77.
Harbour started shaping boards from scratch back in 1959, after his first board was stolen from his parents house.
In a 2017 interview with our newsroom, Harbour called his first attempt terrible.
“There was no how-to guide at the time, he recalled. A 16-year-old kid making a board with no instructions. You can imagine.”
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He said he spent the next few months studying every professionally-made surfboard I could see to analyze how this thing was made. What steps did they do that I didn’t?”
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