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
Beautiful from any Angle
![Don James (foreground), Sunset. Photo: LeRoy Grannis](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/9626a96f87d8c6f2ebb56f3a3e6ea333a84e7df1-900x506.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Don James (foreground), Sunset. Photo: LeRoy Grannis
![LeRoy Grannis, 1963.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/3e83005ac7ca668e61112bc9e4b44c783f0bf720-1040x585.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
LeRoy Grannis, 1963.
![(L to R) Ron Stoner, LeRoy Grannis, Don James, 1966](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/5a6b7d672a5b6244f6baab328b0157ddc4f614af-1040x585.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
(L to R) Ron Stoner, LeRoy Grannis, Don James, 1966
![The Ranch, 1966. Photo: Ron Stoner](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/15cdd420eba2b04c81a49057219b14ad891aacb5-1040x585.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
The Ranch, 1966. Photo: Ron Stoner
![Murphy creator Rick Griffin (white T-shirt), 1962](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/3efb6175858dea55dac833c449c4129c71bb42b7-1040x585.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Murphy creator Rick Griffin (white T-shirt), 1962
Photographer Ron Stoner did for Southern California surf breaks what artist David Hockney did for Southern California swimming pools, and to the same effect: you didn't want to just look at their work, you longed to step inside and become part of it.
Surfers as a rule didn’t trust the media. Hollywood movies, Sports Illustrated articles, Beach Boys singles—these were created by non-surfers, and they almost never got it right. What surfers really craved was in-house news and entertainment. Surf movies were a blast. Surf magazines were even better—or at least more versatile. They could be taken home, studied, collected, and referenced; they offe...
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