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
Hobie vs Velzy vs the IRS
![Hobie Surfboards, 1954](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/2b575fbf43d8c09c9cd43f77309bcb0319237f1b-1040x585.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Hobie Surfboards, 1954
![Hobie Alter, 1952](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/ebe85b53ad1273ff86f9009beb2df4dc6f68560b-1040x585.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Hobie Alter, 1952
![Hobie Alter, right, Makaha, 1954](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/34074085c7f23116bd431e7bc7b210dc525cfda2-1040x585.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Hobie Alter, right, Makaha, 1954
![Hobie vs Velzy vs the IRS](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/db68658bde98a0729ae9e41f10c21c055e20c0f8-1040x585.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
![Hobie ink label, early '50s](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/f1hjpcr4/production/c83cd1882172ec65a9ea4632f0d7bd45b9231c1a-1040x585.jpg?w=640&h=360&q=65&auto=format)
Hobie ink label, early '50s
Hobie Alter, unlike fellow boardmaker Dale Velzy, was earnest and respectable, and his shop was as clean as Alter himself was clean-cut.
Surfing's boom period was well and truly underway. While plenty of the sport's trendsetters scavenged and hustled their way through the 1950s, the fast-growing majority in what was already being identified as America’s fastest-growing sport consisted of teenagers on generous weekly allowances, with decent-paying summer jobs, whose middle-class parents were themselves enjoying an unprecedented amou...
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