HISTORY - Velzy plaque claiming "World's First Surf Shop" is reconsidered
By Mark McDermott One day in 1949, 13-year-old Bing Copeland was bodysurfing just down from his family’s house, which was at 9th and Highland…
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By Mark McDermott One day in 1949, 13-year-old Bing Copeland was bodysurfing just down from his family’s house, which was at 9th and Highland…
By Kevin Cody Surfer’s Journal publisher Steve Pezman once compared the Hap Jacobs surf shop of the late ‘60s to the Notre Dame Cathedral because of the Jacobs’…
By Kevin Cody In 1950, the State of California created a new sales tax category, for surfboard sales. The first retail shop to be issued a sales tax license…
By Mike Purpus Dale Velzy is responsible for the South Bay becoming a center of the surfing world. In the late ‘40s, he reshaped plywood he found on the beach…
By Tom Horton President South Bay Boardriders Club At the recent Hermosa Friends Foundation Quick Pitch competition, at The Lighthouse Cafe…