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The Doheny Longboard Surfing Association created the Dale Velzy Classic in 1989 as a festival and context in tribute to legendary surfer and shaper Sale Velzy. The Doheny Longboard Surfing Association is an “organization dedicated to board surfing in a clean and natural environment”, and sponsors the Velzy and other events and contest in Southern California. Notable on this piece is the statue of King Kamehameha, perhaps paying tribute to the “sport of kings” and its roots in Hawaii.

Show here is the first album from Dick Dale and His Del-Tones. That’s the “King of the Surf Guitar’, Dick Dale himself, surfing on the front of the album (his autograph appears here as well). Considered to be the leading pioneer in surf music, Dick Dale’s musical career has now spanned 6 decades with over a dozen albums to date.

Known as “The Hawk”, Dale Velzy was a surfer, a celebrity, a hell raising rebel, a revolutionary retailer, a hall of fame surfer, a surf film financier, a lifeguard and most of all, a shaper. A master shaper in his own right, Joe Quigg said, “You couldn’t even sell a board in the sixties unless it looked like a Velzy board.” Dale opened Velzy Surfboards (The world’s first surf shop) in Manhattan Beach, California in 1949, and shortly after has shops all along Southern California’s coast and in Hawaii (1951). Dale was so influential that a stretch of Hawaii’s famous North Shore, now know as Velzyland, was named in his honor. In his 50 plus years of building boards for the best surfers the sport has ever known, Dale designed dozen of surfboards, each revolutionizing surfing in it’s own way.

Published in 1965 as part of the “Whitman Teen Novel” collection, Surfboard Summer, follows 16 year-old Cindy. Following the death of her brother, Cindy searches for happiness for both her and her family. When she discovers surfing, her life changes and she finds peace and happiness.

This is the first of only six editions of Competition Surf Magazine, which was launched in the spring of 1966. Founded by two Californians, Edwards W. Greezy III and Jim Joiner, the magazine was, as the name implied, focused on competitive surfing. Although Greevy and Joiner were from California, they published the magazine in New York, where they were then living. Even though surf magazine were primarily based on the West Coast, a small collection of East coast magazines such as Competition Surf, Atlantic Surfing, and Surfing East has found there way into the market in the mid to late 1970’s.

And then December 5th, 2005 happened. Citing harassment from government regulatory agencies such as EPA, Clark sent out a 7 page fax announcing an abrupt ending to Clark Foam. Within in 6 months of Clark closing, there were nearly two dozen new companies trying to get a piece of the polyurethane board market, but none could even come close to replicating the quality and strength of Clark Foam. The Calk Foam Brand is now proudly owned by Malibu Shirts. Displayed in this store are original Calk Foam blanks in various sizes, shapes and densities. These are the raw blanks before shapers have refines them into their custom designs.

Following young Eddie Kama as he tried to leave his coffee planation background in Kone behind him, Waikiki Beachboy takes a fictional look at a young Hawaii man trying to work his way up in the world, with his time spent working as a beachboy teaching many valuable lesions.

John Ascuaga’s restaurant Trader Dick’s has been a favorite for Polynesian cuisine lovers since 1958. A 6,000 gallon saltwater aquarium populated with over 100 types of tropical fish is a main attraction. Although located in Reno, NV, this tiki style lounge has capitalized on Polynesian culture. Shown here is a mug standing 61/4” tall with a surfer girl and fish.

The Hawaii Promotional Committee was established in 1903 as the first organization in the Hawaiian Islands to focus on increasing tourism to the Islands. The initial budget in 1903 was $15,000. As streamliner companies such as Matson and the Los Angeles Steamship Company began significantly increasing the tourist numbers, the Hawaii Tourist Bureau was established in 1919. By 1922 the governor has appointed four members of the Tourist Bureau to represent all the major Islands and gave them a budget of 100,000.

Located on Queen Street in Honolulu, American Sanitary Laundry was established in 1900. Founded by John Alfred Magoon, the American Sanitary Landry would become one of the largest dry clearing plates in Hawaii. John Magoon left the business to be run by his sons, and many of the locals simply new the business as Magoon’s Laundry. Seen here is a wood hanger from the American Sanitary Laundry.

Located on Queen Street in Honolulu, American Sanitary Laundry was established in 1900. Founded by John Alfred Magoon, the American Sanitary Landry would become one of the largest dry clearing plates in Hawaii. John Magoon left the business to be run by his sons, and many of the locals simply new the business as Magoon’s Laundry. Seen here is a military dress shirt from a solider that had been stationed in Hawaii in the early 1940’s. The shirt had been cleared prior to the soldiers return home in 1943 but the shirt was never worn again, thus leaving the dry cleaners label almost perfectly intact.

In the late nineteenth century, souvenirs from away places were generally small and light. Spoons were a trendy item to bring back to the mainland and were often lavishly designed.

Medallions were extremely popular within the surf culture in the 1960’s, often as good luck charms or simply as symbols of the sport they loved. Many featured Saint Christopher, who is the patron saint of travel and is believed to have searched the world for adventure (like surfers). Beach boys used to give their girlfriends medallions or surf charms as a sign of “going steady.” Another common symbol among surfers is the iron cross. Designed by neo-classical architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, it was established in 1813 as a military honor by Prussia’s King Friedrich Wilhelm III.