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Though they weren't conscious of it, they were creating a new beach culture that soon would capture the national imagination. McGrath is the author of Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier, and he is a regular contributor here on Our American Stories. The golden age of surfing was ushered in when a foam was developed for surfboards that would not deteriorate with the application of catalyzed resin. The phone came from a surfboard maker with an affinity for experimentation, Dave Sweet, working mostly in a garage in Pacific Palisades, and then in a small shop in Santa Monica. Sweet persevered through minor explosions and failures.
He finally succeeded in molding a polyurethane foam blank that could be shaped and fiberglassed. He began using his new foam blanks for his own line of surfboards. In 1999, one of his boards went on display at the Smithsonian Institution. Following close behind Dave Sweet were Gordon Clark and Hobie Alter, who developed their own version of polyurethane foam for surfboards at Alter's shop on the Coast Highway in Dana Point. They were enthusiastic promoters of their product, and began selling raw polyurethane blanks to other board makers.
First by the dozens, then the hundreds, and finally the thousands. This beach bum has acquired millions. He won't say how many millions. Everyone who has ever surfed or sailed knows him as just plain Hobie. I was making boards instead of being a lifeguard while I was going to high school and junior college, and.
Shortly after that, my father said, "You know, you got to go in the surfboard business because all these people are finding you in your garage. You'd probably do all right if you really went into it." So, he's always right.
So I did it. By the time he was thirty, Hobie was the biggest surfboard manufacturer in the United States, with annual sales of five million dollars. The foam revolution was on. Boards were suddenly not only much lighter, but also cheaper. When I first surfed at Malibu on my canvas mat in 1957, polyurethane foam boards were beginning to appear, but most surfboards were still made of balsa wood.
By 1959, when I was surfing regularly on a surfboard, balsa boards were rare and on their way to becoming collector's items. Today, you will see beautifully hand-shaped balsa boards hanging on the walls of restaurants and bars, but not in the water. They are too expensive to be risked surfing them. During the golden age, several spots in California developed into surf meccas. Malibu led the way.
Also prominent were La Jolla, Santa Nofre, Dana Point. And the South Bay beach towns of Manhattan, Hermosa, and Redondo. In Northern California, there was Santa Cruz. All these spots had not only their great surfers, but also their great characters. The greatest of these characters was Terry Tracy, better known as Tube Steve.
Born in Los Angeles in 1935, he grew up attending strict Catholic schools. At Cathedral High School, he starred in football. A powerfully built, six foot three and two hundred and thirty pounds, he seemed destined to play at UCLA or USC. But the more he surfed, the more his grades declined. Instead of attending either of those four-year universities, Tracy went to Santa Monica City College, playing football, but studying only when there was no surf.
After one year, he called it quits and went to work at a savings and loan. Tracy lasted two years at the savings and loan until the summer of 1956, when he traded his suit and tie for a pair of trunks and headed up to Malibu to spend his days surfing. He built a shack out of lumber and palm fronds on the sand, just inland from the high tide line. He furnished the interior with a small stove, a couch, a mattress, milk crates, beach towels, and posters. He became a full-time resident right there on the beach in his shack.
He could do so because the beach was still unregulated and uncontrolled, and had no lifeguards. Bitten! Kemp Alberg, who was 16 years old during the summer of 1956, told me. I was hanging around the entrance to Tube Steak Shack after a good go out on the waves. Everyone was laughing, talking, and drying out in the sun.
Suddenly, the damp army blanket that served as the door to the palm frond shack was swept aside, and there stood the tube, observing his flock. Then, in a very loud, deep, authoritative voice, he proclaimed, "I am the Kahuna." And we all knew from that day on who our leader was at Malibu. That's the era when styles were being developed. Looks became important rather than the post-war surfers that sort of rode their 12-foot boards into the sand. The boards had become shorter, and now the surfers were interested in how they whipped a turn, and nose walking was being invented, and all of this fantastic maneuvering.
I think that's what captivated everyone's interest, and the sort of onlookers around the tube stake shack would give grand rounds of applause for those who. Showed certain prowess on the waves.
Well, by 1957, Terry Tracy was referred to only as Tube Steak. There are several different versions of how he acquired the nickname. The one I heard back when I started surfing at Malibu said Tracy showed up at a barbecue with hot dogs instead of the steaks he had promised. When someone complained, Tracy in high dudgeon. Declared, there are T-bone steaks, borderhouse steaks, ribeye steaks.
These are tube steaks.
Well, everyone claps in laughter. From then on, Terry Tracy was known as Tube Steak. Tube Steak built a new, sturdier shack on a raised wooden platform in 1957, and added to his furnishings. Surfers joked that he had sold out the middle class life and gone upscale. When Tube stayed surf, it was on a 10 foot 6 inch balsa wood board.
Even after foam boards became common, the Tube continued to ride his balsa board. He didn't care about a lighter, quicker, more maneuverable board. He would drop down the face of a wave, make a sweeping bottom turn, trim up. And roar across the face of the wave and down the line. No one would drop in on him uninvited.
He was tube steak, but Kahuna. For those new to Malibu and ignorant of the picking order, the sight of a guy the size of a pro football tight end barreling down a wave on a ten and a half foot balsa wood board was enough to keep them from dropping in. For fear of being sliced in half. When Duftseck caught a big wave, he would strike a pose, looking like a giant gymnast doing an iron cross. People on the beach would laugh and applaud.
Duftseck probably would have remained an obscure figure, known only to surfers, were it not for an Austrian immigrant and Hollywood screenwriter Frederick Coner and his daughter Kathy. The coloners lived in Brentwood, but in the summer of 1957, rented a beach house in the Malibu Colony. Kathy would walk down the beach to the surfing point and hang around the surfers at Tope Stake Shack. Pert and cute, and maybe five foot tall and 95 pounds, she thought she could convince one of the surfers to take her out on a board. Flat rejection is what she got.
She was told to move on. She asked how she could be bothering anyone by just quietly sitting there. Yeah, replied one of the surfers. You're still breathing. And you've been listening to Roger McGrath chronicling the golden age of surfing.
In the beginning, well, it's centered around big innovations and innovators, competitors going at it, making the board shorter. And lighter, the polyurethane and foam revolution was on, and then, of course, there was the innovation in style: how to get on that board, what to do on that board, more sharp turns, much more stylistic, and in the end, much more interesting to watch. When we come back, more of the golden age of surfing with Roger McRae here on Our American Story. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years, and now it takes form in a new way.
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Let's pick up where we last left off. Just then, Tube Stick emerged from his shack and surveyed his domain. What was this little thing sitting near his surfing novitiates? It's a girl," said one of the guys. "It's a midget," said another.
Tube steak put an end to the debate, declaring it was a gidget, half girl and half midget. From then on, Kathy was known as Gidget, and Tube steak became her protector. Kathy learned to surf and got a bad case of surf stoke. Every evening, she'd tell her dad about surfing and all the surfers at Tope Stake Shack. Frederick Conner, the Hollywood screenwriter that he was, knew good material when he heard it.
Within six weeks, he had completed a novel titled *Gidget: The Little Girl with Big Ideas*. It was published in October, 1957, and became a bestseller. Life magazine sent a reporter and a photographer to Malibu to see if such a scene was actually there on the beach, and such colorful characters really existed, or were mere figments of Conner's imagination. When the reporter and photographer arrived, they saw the waves breaking off the point and the surfers riding them. There was Tube Stake Shack, and there was Tube Stake.
Striking poses on the waves and ruling the beach. There was little Kathy, called nothing but Gidget. If Life magazine was intrigued by all this, so too was Hollywood. Coner sold the movie rights for fifty thousand dollars and five percent of what the movie grossed. A windfall for Coner.
The fifty thousand dollars alone would be more than six hundred thousand in today's dollars. What in the world is a Gidget? It's a girl, a cuddling, befuddling teen who set out to find her a man of her own, and found seven, seven young beachcombers with a single thought: to enjoy life and love without working. Meet Kahuna, their leader. You'll get to meet them all when you see Columbia Pictures' Gidget.
Brought to the screen from the bestseller that proves a teenager can be delightfully juvenile without being delinquent, Gidget: The Story of the Beach Generation. The movie Gidget was released in March 1959. Cliff Robertson played Dupe Steg, the Kauna. Although physically, Dan Blocker would have been much more appropriate. Surfers were not exactly pleased with the movie.
It had plenty of Hollywood hokie in it, and surfers didn't like James Darren, who played Moon Doggy, the love interest of Gidget, played by Sandra Dee. Darren didn't look the part of Moon Doggy, couldn't begin to surf, and was apprehensive about even stepping into the ocean. This meant nothing to teenage girls who had crushes on Darren and flocked to the movie. Several of our local Palisades guys. Worked in the movie.
Dud McClure, a neighbor and good friends with my older brother and sister, played the fun-loving character Waikiki. Small and wiry, Mickey Munoz, donned a blonde wig and a girl's bathing suit and surfed for Sandra Dee. Keppler surfed in the scenes of all the guys sharing a wave. The surfing scenes in Gidget were not shot at Malibu, but at Seacus, a beautiful little cove about 15 miles up the coast. Seacus is easily recognizable because the takeoff spot is right next to a large jagged rock.
Surfers today, younger surfers anyway, generally refer to the spot as Leo, since the beach is part of Leo Creek State Beach. Does all the timers though? It will always be Seikus. Tufseik didn't directly profit from Gidget, but his reputation as the Kahuna of Malibu spread far and wide after the movie's release. He was asked by different shapers to represent their surfboards and paid to appear at surf expos and in surfing movies.
In the spring of 1960, Danny Alberg and I. And many others from Pacific Palisades went to the first Surforama Expo at the Santa Monica Pacific Auditorium. Stupe Steak was there representing Dewey Weber surfboards. Standing in front of Dewey's exhibit, he looked larger than life, wearing a Hawaiian shirt that could have covered a bear. I've been saving my paper wrap money for six months to buy a new board.
Tube steak knew me well as one of the Grammys at Malibu, and made me a deal that later caused Dewey to blanch. The purchase contract included a good price for trading in my old board and a pair of custom-made surf trunks by Dewey's mom. Dewey thought about not living up to the agreement. I was only 13 and couldn't have been held to a contract, but with a little tube steak influence. Dewey stuck to the bargain.
While Dewey was making surfboards, his mom was making surf trunks in the Weber family home in Manhattan Beach. She had a small sewing room full of material for trunks. I picked out the color I wanted. A couple weeks later, I had my new trunks. Because of several orders ahead of mine, the wait for my new board was considerably longer.
It seemed like an eternity. The late 1950s and early 1960s are now called the golden age of surfing in California. The new foam boards made it possible to perform maneuvers thought impossible in earlier days, and the foam boards were less expensive and lighter than the balsa wood boards. The number of surfers competing for a wave hadn't yet become unbearable, and there were still surfing spots waiting to be discovered. Surfing a wave without having to battle for it or share it with others was the rule.
Today, it's the exception. The sheer numbers of surfers today are mind-boggling to those of us who surfed in the 1950s. The same goes for the overall population of California, which was about 13 million in 1955, and today has more than tripled to 40 million. Yet, because of the construction of marinas and breakwaters, the numbers of surfing spots has been reduced. The worst loss of all was the great break at Dana Point, which lies about halfway between Laguna Beach and San Clemente.
On a big south swell, Dana Point could have 15-foot waves and quarter-mile rides. On such days, it was called Killer Dana. Because of the big waves breaking boards and pummeling surfers, it was at Dana Point in 1953 that one of the greatest moments in the history of California surfing occurred. The big set waves were breaking 15 feet. Phil Edwards, a 15-year-old kid from Oceanside, paddled out.
All their surfers worried about him and told him the only way to handle the 15-foot waves. Was to drop straight down the face, and continue straight into the beach, trying to stay ahead of the thundering white water. Edwards said the sheer size of the waves and their ferocity, with which they broke, were frightening. But then, at the same time, he was so pumped, he felt a strange confidence take control. He took off on the biggest wave of one of the sets, and instead of heading straight in.
Made a sweeping bottom turn and climbed up the face of the wave with tremendous speed. And you've been listening to Dr. Roger McGrath tell the story of the golden age of surfing. And my goodness, he was knee deep in it all the way as a teenager, a sixteen-year-old. And my goodness, hearing the stories of these shacks getting built on the beach because, well, there was no regulation.
There were barely any people living in these parts of Malibu. Very isolated, very distant from downtown Los Angeles, for sure. Boy, we learned so much, particularly how Gidget got her name. Who knew there'd be a book, and then of course a movie. And though the surfers weren't pleased, it exploded the popularity of this.
When we come back, more of the story of the golden age of surfing with Roger McGrath here on Our American Stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years, and now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 semi-quintennial coin and medal program from the United States Mint. It celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage.
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And we continue with our American stories, and the story of the golden age of surfing, with Roger McGrath. Our frequent contributor here on the show, also you see him on the History Channel all the time, talking about stories about the West. This is about as West as it gets in the continental United States. The surf at Malibu and Dana Point. Let's pick up where we last left off.
Reaching the wave's crest, he cut back and dropped down again, then repeated the climbing and dropping. Then, when the wave was about to break in front of him, he walked towards the nose of the board, putting the board perfect trim, and accelerated past the crashing section. No one could quite believe what they were watching. Phil Edwards was performing in a manner that was called hot dogging on one of Killer Dana's monster waves. Edwards.
Would go on to become the greatest surfer of California's golden age. His legendary status began that summer day at Dana Point. Beginning in 1966 and completed in 1968, a large breakwater and boat marina were constructed, creating Dana Point Harbor. The breakwater not only destroyed the surf at Dana Point. But also greatly reduced the size and consistency of the surf at nearby Doheny State Beach.
Surfers were heartbroken, and one of California's best surfing spots was gone forever. Malibu had more than its share of great surfers during the golden age, including Kemp Alberg, Lance Carson, Mickey Dora, Johnny Fain. Mickey Munoz, Butch Lindon, Urban Molokini, Dewey Weber, and Mike Doyle. They all had their own styles. Kemp Alberg with his signature arched back turn.
Lance Carson with his nose riding and whipping cut back. Mickey Dora with his effortless style, sides slipping around sections and perfect trim. Johnny Fane. And Dewey Weber with their almost manic hot dogging, Butch Lindon surfing Malibu with style and ease, although doing so goofy foot, that is with his back to the wave. Mickey Munoz with his iconic Quasimodo squat on the nose, Mike Doyle with his powerful bottom turn and cutback, and the Hawaiian, Urban Molokini or Moki.
As we all knew him, moving his hands and arms as if doing a hula dance while riding a wave. There were also a few female surfers who stood out at Malibu during the golden age, including Marge Calhoun. Marge didn't start surfing until she was 28 years old in 1954, when her husband Tom bought her a Joe Quig balsa wood board designed for Malibu. A powerfully built champion swimmer and good body surfer, when she was a teenager, Marge got good quickly. Leaving her daughters Candy and Robin at home with husband Tom, in the Rustic Canyon neighborhood of Pacific Palisades during the fall of 1958, Marge flew to Hawaii and won the first women's surfing championship.
Held at Macaha in 12-foot surf. I remember her for not only being one of the few female surfers at Malibu, but also for taking off on anything any guy dared to. She was a hard charger. Her daughter's first body surf at Will Rogers State Beach, and later surfed with boards. For a time, Kemp Alberg dated Candy.
Another female surfer of note at Malibu was Shelley Merrick. I first met her when surfing in 1959 at Ladigo Point, a few miles up the coast from the more well-known point at Malibu. Shelley grew up on the beach at Ladigo and surfed from a young age. Her father, John J. Merrick, the son of Irish immigrants, loved all water sports, which explained the beach house he built at Ladigo.
In the late 1940s, in 1964, he became Malibu's first judge. He earned a reputation as a tough but fair judge, although he was known to occasionally cut surfers some slack for their indiscretions. With the popularization of surfing during the golden age, came the commercialization of the sport. The movie Gidget contributed mightily to that commercialization, but so too did the proliferation of surfing contests. Four months after Gidget was released in March 1959, a contest was held at Huntington Beach.
It was billed as the first annual West Coast Surfing Championship. It was not, but. We know back in the 30s they had surfing championships. Other contests sprang up everywhere, and suddenly surfing was looking more like what everybody had run to the beach to get away from. Phil Edwards and several big names boycotted the contests.
Mickey Dora surfed in a Malibu contest only to protest what was being done to his beloved pastime. At a critical moment, while riding away past the reviewing stand, he turned on his board and, with his back to the beach, dropped his trunks and mooned the judges. Most surfers could not resist the contests. Free surfboards and surf trunks often went with trophies for the winners, and photo layouts followed in surfing magazines. Today, surfers can make hundreds of thousands of dollars on the pro surfing circuit.
Not so much from contest prize money, but from endorsements. Everything from boards, wetsuits, and surf leashes to clothing, sunscreen, and sunglasses. The surf industry generates hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. The proliferation of surf contests and the commercialization of the sport. Is far from what surfing was originally all about.
Judging in surf contests imposes artificial standards that often make little sense when riding a wave. With the introduction of super fast and highly maneuverable short boards, contest wave riding is now something akin to performing a floor exercise in gymnastics. Surfers are required to perform a number of standard moves. And then spice their routine with some originality, but none of it has much to do with the individual characteristics of the particular wave they're riding. The wave has become secondary to the routine.
Surfing as a kid is great, but as an adult, it can cause problems because it requires a lifestyle, not just a little time allocated for a workout at a gym, or running on trails in the hills, or cycling through the neighborhood. Mother Nature is a fickle mistress. She will give you waves, but the wrong wind or the wrong tide. She will give you the right wind and the right tide, but no waves. It's not often there's a perfect combination of waves, wind, and tide.
When the waves are pumping and the wind and tide are right, a surfer must drop everything and hit the surf. A day late, or even a few hours late. Will cause the tardy surfer to hear the dreaded words, "You missed it." This results in many of the truly dedicated surfers being something less than highly responsible and productive adults. A part-time job is preferred for work. A part-time job at night is even better.
No work and a trust fund is the best. The stoke from riding waves under ideal conditions is so great it overwhelms the senses and the psyche. Surfing can be likened to a powerful and addictive drug. The high from riding beautiful waves can hook a surfer for life. He will spend his remaining decades on Earth searching for those ideal conditions and chasing that same high.
For fear of brain damage. Parents worry about their sons playing football for fear of a psychic form of brain damage. Perhaps parents should worry about their sons surfing. Best that California's overreaching state government doesn't get wind of psychic damage from the excessive stoke of surfing great waves. I could see a bureaucrat or a commission in Sacramento.
Trying to regulate surfing and mandating that all surfboards come with a warning label: prolonged exposure to surfing may cause psychic damage. Paddle out at your own risk. And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Greg Hengler. And a special thanks to Dr. Roger McGrath.
And you've seen him on the History Channel. He's a frequent contributor. Here on our American stories, and as you can clearly tell, we rarely have commentary in our pieces. But we permitted Dr. McGrath a little bit of license because he's one of those addicts for sure.
And anyone who's experienced those waves, and particularly experienced how arbitrary they are, and if you don't get to them, they're gone. Then all you do is hear about them from your friends who actually experienced them, and boy, the jealousies pop up. The golden age of surfing here on our American stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years, and now it takes form in a new way.
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