{"id":6795,"date":"2012-07-01T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T19:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2012-07-27T15:10:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T22:10:16","slug":"history-of-surfboard-wax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/history-of-surfboard-wax\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Surfboard Wax Featured at HB International Surfing Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/surfwax.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: History of Surfboard Wax exhibit at Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum, call 714-960-3483 or surfingmuseum.org.\u00a0 Wax on brothers and sisters!<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/information\/craig-macdonald-author.html\">C. MacDonald<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huntington Beach, CA&#8211;I could &#8220;wax on&#8221; for hours about how important it is for surfers to have traction on their boards so they don&#8217;t slip but there&#8217;s a cooler way to find out about the unbelievable world of surfboard wax&#8211;visit the new &#8220;History of Surfboard Wax&#8221; exhibit at the groovy HB International Surfing Museum, 411 Olive Ave.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 1,000 examples of surfboard wax and lore, including original waxes in their colorful and fun-named packages&#8211;&#8220;Sticky Fingers,&#8221; &#8220;Honey Wax,&#8221; &#8220;the Big Bar,&#8221; &#8220;Sex Wax,&#8221; and many off-color names and sexy photos that you&#8217;ll have to see to believe. Even the shapes are different, i.e., Long Ryder&#8217;s Surfwax is cleverly shaped like a surfboard. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/museums\/huntington-beach-international-surfing-museum.html\">Read the full story! <\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surfboards with pretty scenes actually painted with wa<\/li>\n<li>World&#8217;s Largest Bar of Surf Wax weighing over 100 pounds.<\/li>\n<li>Gift store sells waxes<\/li>\n<li>Special wax honoring the International Surfing Museum&#8217;s 25th Anniversary<\/li>\n<li>Surf wax companies seen through photos<\/li>\n<li>Samples of how wax was made<\/li>\n<li>Popular wax scents&#8211; coconut, root beer and bubble gum and the least popular, pumpkin, pine and banana<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"imgs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/jmarsh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Jeff Marsh, Surfing Museum membership director, with bar of wax from new exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: History of Surfboard Wax exhibit at Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum, call 714-960-3483 or surfingmuseum.org.\u00a0 Wax on brothers and sisters! By C. MacDonald Huntington Beach, CA&#8211;I could &#8220;wax on&#8221; for hours about how important it is for surfers to have traction on their boards so they don&#8217;t slip but there&#8217;s a cooler way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795"}],"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=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}