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
Tokyo to Tel Aviv
![Ernie Tanaka, Katsuura, Japan](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/d1ebf06a6b9e5a67a3c0782a43ed6189059a98e1-1200x675.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Ernie Tanaka, Katsuura, Japan
![China Beach Surf Club, Vietnam](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/a250f70ca0d8a82514ecd65e3d9a699815bc9d60-1200x675.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
China Beach Surf Club, Vietnam
![Dorian Paskowitz](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/b38ba043d9fae5b66b350e93ecd2e577f575777b-900x504.jpg?rect=2,0,896,504&w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Dorian Paskowitz
![Peter Troy (far right), Ecuador, 1965](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/d6ad344b53feccb16a683cbf78a3db21c22f74d1-1200x675.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Peter Troy (far right), Ecuador, 1965
![Newquay, England, 1963](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/e1a478f9a049cce2f21b0611fbfa5b7d4be9b701-1200x675.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Newquay, England, 1963
The military did its part to export surfing around the world. Wave-riding US servicemen in Vietnam bargained with cargo pilots to have boards shipped from home—six cases of Chivas got a Weber Performer and two Jacobs noseriders flown from California to a beachfront depot in southeast Asia.
The Beach Boys sang “Everybody’s gone surfin',” midway through the boom, and it sure looked that way driving up Pacific Coast Highway on a summer morning with a new groundswell pumping in. But how many surfers were there, really? In the pre-Gidget 1950s, a common estimate was that there were about 10,000 surfers in America—although the actual figure may have been half that. By 1965, foam-maker Gor...
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