Pacific System Homes surfboards
Home-building company located in south Los Angeles; producer of the Swastika model surfboard in the 1930s, the sport's first commercially made board. Pacific Ready-Cut Homes (as it was originally known), founded in 1908, made a line of prefab houses that were delivered and assembled on-site by company workers. In 1929, Meyers Butte, the college-age son of one of the Pacific System Homes cofounders...
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Pete Peterson, left, on a Pacific Home Systems board. Photo: Doc BallSubscribe to view
Meyers ButteSubscribe to view
Pacific System Homes surfboards in Waikiki, 1937. Photo: Richard StewartSubscribe to view
Whitey Harrison on a Pacific Home System board, Dana Point, 1939Subscribe to view
Pacific System Homes boardmaker Pete Peterson. Photo: Don JamesSubscribe to view
Pacific System Homes factory, south Los AngelesSubscribe to view
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Pete Peterson, left, on a Pacific Home Systems board. Photo: Doc Ball
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Meyers Butte
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Pacific System Homes surfboards in Waikiki, 1937. Photo: Richard Stewart
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Whitey Harrison on a Pacific Home System board, Dana Point, 1939
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Pacific System Homes boardmaker Pete Peterson. Photo: Don James
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Pacific System Homes factory, south Los Angeles