Horn, Kit
Enduring low-key big-wave surfer from Santa Monica, California. "A tremendous athlete," fellow big-wave rider Peter Cole said of Horn. "As good a waterman as I have known; the bigger the waves, the better he would surf." Christopher "Kit" Horn was born (1929) in Hollywood, the son of a phonograph salesman father and librarian mother, raised in Santa Monica, and began surfing at Sorrento Beach at ...
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Kit Horn, Sunset. Photo: Jim FreemanSubscribe to view
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Kit Horn, Malibu, mid-1940s. Photo: Don JamesSubscribe to view
Kit Horn, Huntington, 1967Subscribe to view
Kit Horn, Waimea BaySubscribe to view
Kit Horn (left) and Matt Kivlin, Malibu, early 1950sSubscribe to view
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Kit Horn, Sunset. Photo: Jim Freeman
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Kit Horn
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Kit Horn, Malibu, mid-1940s. Photo: Don James
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Kit Horn, Huntington, 1967
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Kit Horn, Waimea Bay
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Kit Horn (left) and Matt Kivlin, Malibu, early 1950s