"BAND OF CALIFORNIANS HERE TO RIDE 20-FOOT MAKAHA" BY SARAH PARK, HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN (1954)
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In early 1954, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin sent 26-year-old Korean-American reporter Sarah Park to do a human interest piece on a group California surfers who were wintering in a weather-beaten house in Makaha. Park was tough. She was just back from a year in-country covering the Korean War, where she did time in the trenches, came under fire, and earned bravery honors from the Seventh Infantry. Pa...
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