Chapter: 4
Ten-Year Boom
- Gidget the All-Powerful
- The Rebel Next Door
- Hobie vs Velzy vs the IRS
- Better Surfing Through Chemistry
- Summer on the Inside
- Surf Fashion, Lightly Salted
- Surfing the Newsstand
- Process of Elimination
- Oil City Showdown
- The Jazz Stylings of Phil Edwards
- Technicolor Surf Boom
- Heroes and Villains
- Blackball Blues
- Dick Dale, Destroyer of Amps
- Surfing in Five-Part Harmony
- Tokyo to Tel Aviv
- Flight of the Larrikin
- Bob Evans Means Business
- Midget Wins It All
- But Will it Play in New York?
- Houses of the Holy
- We Own the Sidewalks
- Beautiful from any Angle
- Duke's Big Contest
- Can You Handle the Penetrator?
- Girls, Don't Panic!
- David Nuuhiwa Walks on Water
- An Invincible Summer
Process of Elimination
![1959 Makaha International. Photo: Bob Pasqua](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/5ca0c2d62c9ace2b1a5932571877df57840907ee-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
1959 Makaha International. Photo: Bob Pasqua
![Snow McCalister, 1920s Aussie champion](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/5cc38a1c6a5e1ddd72abc0ea467a2a240fa292ab-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Snow McCalister, 1920s Aussie champion
![1964 US Championships. Photo: Ron Church](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/59c93a846661d5d52d74dcf38e25f716657b0220-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
1964 US Championships. Photo: Ron Church
![Pacific Coast Surf Riding Championships, 1940. Photo: Doc Ball](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/02f2f4220f0e6ef11e50bb434c041ac61ccc7ff6-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Pacific Coast Surf Riding Championships, 1940. Photo: Doc Ball
![Tandem surfing, 1966. Photo: Stoner](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/e31ea3a9fa997aa3f127a1d9df914a40f318da11-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Tandem surfing, 1966. Photo: Stoner
Surfing competition would soon have rules and protocol, but this didn't equal formality. The typical 1960s surf contest, with its Scoutmaster-like organizers and its small hive of keen but unpracticed competitors, had the neighborly feel of a soap box derby.
The earliest issues of SURFER included a short “Contests and Clubs” section, but it wasn’t until late 1962 that a surf meet earned feature-length treatment in the magazine, and another four years after that before publisher John Severson put a contest shot on the cover. Then as now, surfers recognized the gulf between the day-to-day experience of riding waves—which was often combative, yes, but al...
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