{"id":25738,"date":"2019-02-01T11:39:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25738"},"modified":"2019-02-01T11:39:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:39:46","slug":"gone-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/gone-surfing\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody&#8217;s Gone Surfing in Californi-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/surfhb2.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured are scenes from HB, some featured in the book,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/mark-zambrano.html\">Surfing in Huntington Beach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surfing isn&#8217;t just a fun vacation activity, a sport and entertainment. It&#8217;s a way of life with cultural icons, legends, heroes and endless tales, as well as apparel, merchandise, movies and songs. The Beach Boys captured the spirit of the surfing craze in their hit song released initially as a single in 1963&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Surfin&#8217; USA\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If everybody had an ocean<br \/>\nAcross the U. S. A.<br \/>\nThen everybody&#8217;d be surfin&#8217;<br \/>\nLike Californi-a<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d seem &#8217;em wearing their baggies<br \/>\nHuarache sandals too<br \/>\nA bushy bushy blonde hairdo<br \/>\nSurfin&#8217; U. S. A.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d catch &#8217;em surfin&#8217; at Del Mar<br \/>\nVentura County line<br \/>\nSanta Cruz and Trestle<br \/>\nAustralia&#8217;s Narrabeen<br \/>\nAll over Manhattan<br \/>\nAnd down Doheny Way<\/p>\n<p>Everybody&#8217;s gone surfin&#8217;<br \/>\nSurfin&#8217; U.S.A.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/mark-zambrano.html\">Surfing in Huntington Beach<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Mark Zambrano | Arcadia Publishing, book review by Chris &amp; Craig MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>The history of HB&#8217;s exciting growth as an international surfing mecca is documented in incredible photos and well-chosen words by a local historian.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Open of Surfing<\/li>\n<li>HB Surfing Walk of Fame<\/li>\n<li>Surfers&#8217; Hall of Fame<\/li>\n<li>Surf City Surfing Dogs<\/li>\n<li>George Freeth, &#8220;The Man Who Walked on Water&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Henry Huntington<\/li>\n<li>Duke Kahanamoku, \u00a0&#8220;The Father of Modern Surfing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum<\/li>\n<li>Natalie Kotsch, museum founder who never surfed<\/li>\n<li>Dean Torrence (Jan &amp; Dean)<\/li>\n<li>Lifeguards Bob Higgins and Gene Belshe<\/li>\n<li>Dwight&#8217;s Beach Concession<\/li>\n<li>Gordie Duane<\/li>\n<li>Jack Hokanson, who opened Jack&#8217;s Surfboards<\/li>\n<li>Bob &#8220;The Greek&#8221; Bolen<\/li>\n<li>Jan Gaffney<\/li>\n<li>Lifeguard Chuck Linnen, who taught Corky Carroll how to &#8220;shoot the pier&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Jericho Poppler<\/li>\n<li>The Golden Bear where Dick Dale, &#8220;King of the &#8216;Surf Guitar,&#8221; performed<\/li>\n<li>The Sugar Shack Cafe, a surfer hangout on Main Street<\/li>\n<li>The Hole in the Wall Gang<\/li>\n<li>Peter &#8220;PT&#8221; Townend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured are scenes from HB, some featured in the book,\u00a0Surfing in Huntington Beach Surfing isn&#8217;t just a fun vacation activity, a sport and entertainment. It&#8217;s a way of life with cultural icons, legends, heroes and endless tales, as well as apparel, merchandise, movies and songs. The Beach Boys captured the spirit of the surfing craze [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/25738"}],"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=25738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25739,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25738\/revisions\/25739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}