{"id":12655,"date":"2013-06-21T00:39:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T07:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12655"},"modified":"2013-06-21T00:41:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T07:41:01","slug":"centennial-celebration-for-surf-pioneer-george-freeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/centennial-celebration-for-surf-pioneer-george-freeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Centennial Celebration for Surf Pioneer George Freeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/freepix.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos left to right: Huntington Beach Mayor Connie Boardman with Coral Reef Wetsuits Owner Tony Jones introducing a commemorative shirt; HSS (Huntington Surf and Sport) Owner Aaron Pai kneels in front of George Freeth&#8217;s new plaque on The Surfers Hall of Fame at Main &amp; PCH in Downtown Huntington Beach; and former World Surfing Champion Peter (PT) Townend.<\/p>\n<p>Surfing Legends &amp; Dignitaries from the Walk Of Fame, Hall of Fame and Community came together recently to celebrate the beginning of a year-long commemoration of the Surfing Centennial in Huntington Beach. On June 20, 1914, famous Hawaiian Surfing Pioneer George Freeth was hired by SoCal Tycoon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/san-marino-huntington-library.html\">Henry E. Huntington<\/a> to ride his<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/trains\/seal-beach-red-car.html\"> Big Red Car<\/a> down from LA to the new concrete HB Pier. He emerged from the electric railway car with his wooden surfboard, creating a buzz and wonder from the beach crowd. Freeth entered the ocean and showed off the exciting sport to amazed locals and tourists. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/surfing\/huntington-beach-george-freeth.html\">Read more<\/a>..&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos left to right: Huntington Beach Mayor Connie Boardman with Coral Reef Wetsuits Owner Tony Jones introducing a commemorative shirt; HSS (Huntington Surf and Sport) Owner Aaron Pai kneels in front of George Freeth&#8217;s new plaque on The Surfers Hall of Fame at Main &amp; PCH in Downtown Huntington Beach; and former World Surfing Champion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}