Greg Ambrose' feature on surf filmmaker Curt Mastalka ran in the November 8, 1983, edition of the Honolulu Star- Bulletin. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Keep your eyes on the telephone poles at the North Shore. They'll reveal whether Island filmmaker Curt Mastalka has been practicing his craft. Every three years or so Mastalka asks himself whether he’s ready to submit himself ...
Martha Lynn's feature on Dale Webster, "'Number One Hardcore' Goes for the Record," ran in the June 20, 1978, edition of the Press, published in Santa Rosa, California. This version has been slighted edited. * * * Small craft warning, high waves, high winds, smooth water, low winds. Dale Webster of Valley Ford has ignored the weather as each of the past 1,016 mornings he has paddled his surf...
Fred Van Dyke's article ran in the April 1, 1968, issue of LIFE Australia magazine. The magazine cover featured an action photo taken at Waimea Bay, with the tagline reading, "The Peril of Surf—A Veteran Surfer Asks: Are Surfers Really Sick?" The version below has been slightly edited. * * * Surfing is what's happening. There's nothing else for me. On a red-hot glassy day of surf I don't ca...
Phil Jarratt's coverage of the 1977 Stubbies Classic originally ran in The Wave Game: An Inside Look at Professional Surfing, published in 1977. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Early in 1976, Edward Fletcher & Co. Pty Ltd, a Brisbane-based clothing company, threw a party at a Gold Coast hotel and announced plans for the sponsorship of a professional surfing contest the following...
"Surf Riding in a Canoe" was the top story on the Special Features section of the August 10, 1913, edition of the Virginian-Pilot. This version has been slightly edtied * * * The sport of surf riding on a plank has for many years been one of the chief attractions to visitors in Honolulu. The natives enjoyed the pastime for years before Uncle Sam threw his protecting arm over the island and b...
Phyllis Walsh was born to a wealthy Philadelphia banking family in 1897. She was outgoing and athletic and like all East Coast elites from the period, she spent her summers at the shore—in Walsh's case, that meant Ventnor City, three miles down the coast from Atlantic City. Walsh attended private schools in New England, rode horses, hunted foxes, socialized with Vanderbilts and Rockefellers. She...
"The Story of Philly and Joey," Alicia King's feature on Phyllis O'Donell and Josette Lagardere, ran in Surfing World #425, published in 2025. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Phyllis O’Donell is standing on the sand at Huntington Beach after a surf, stark naked. Stripping off her bathing suit as the fog rolls in, she’s taking her sweet time, wandering her bare bum around before c...
Matt Warshaw interviewed surfers in 1989 for "What Is It About Surfing and Music?" which ran in the August 1989 issue of SURFER. * * * SHAUN TOMSON FIRST ALBUM BOUGHT: Let it Be, The Beatles. BEST LIVE SHOW: Sting, Dream of the Blue Turtles tour, 1986. BEST LOVE SONG: "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," Crosby, Stills & Nash. CAN YOU PLAY AN INSTRUMENT? No, but I'd love to be able to play piano. ...
"Surf Riding in Canoes Society Fad of Newport," unattributed, ran in the August 28, 1908 edition of the Los Angeles Evening News. * * * One of the great sports at Newport this season, of which the outside world hears nothing, is surf riding in canoes. This is a feature of the fun in which the exclusive set indulges on the private beach at the foot of Bellevue Avenue, where, free from public ...
This unattributed article ran on the front page of the Southwest Wave, a twice-weekly Los Angeles-area newspaper. This version has been slightly edited. * * * The chances are that you will not stumble onto Rocky Point cove at Palos Verdes by accident. It is reached only by a rough auto trail which travels a precarious half-mile on a cliff above the beach. But if, some Sunday afternoon, you s...