Let’s begin at the beginning with the first of the genre “Beach Party.” American International Pictures (AIP) made five ...

You can watch ‘Five Summer Stories’ — and a thousand other surf flicks — by going to thesurfnetwork.com any time. “Because Jim and I were getting so busy doing commercials and Hollywood projects, we ...

Ed Garner, a local Southern California surfer who found a home alongside the likes of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon in several of the popular beach party movies of the 1960s, has died. He was ...

It was early 1964 and Robert August had just returned to Southern California after happily circumnavigating the globe on someone else’s dime. Recently graduated from Huntington Beach High and the ...

Founded in 1960 by John Severson, a surfer, artist, and filmmaker, Surfer was the “bible of surfing.” Thanks to some of the world’s best photographers, writers, and graphic designers, Surfer became ...

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