Surfboard Builders Memorial
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Tales from the Saga

Duke Kahanamoku 1890-1968
photo Clarence Maki


George Freeth 1883-1919


Tom Blake 1902-1994


  • WOODY BROWN


    Bob Simmons 1919-1954
    Simmons surfboard photo courtesy of Surfing Heritage Foundation



  • DALE VELZY



  • BILL HOLDEN 1930-2008


    RICK STONER 1937-1977

  • BOBBY JENSEN

  • JOHN KELLY


    DAN BENDIKSON 1938-2004

  • MIKE DIFFENDERFER

  • DAN HERITAGE

  • WAYNE MIYATA

  • CARL HAYWARD

  • STEVE SCHLINKENMEYER

  • TIGER ESPERE

  • DAVID HIGLEY



  • TOM ALAN OVERLIN




    DEWEY WEBER 1938-1993
    JACK HALEY 1934-2000


    CON COLBURN 1934-1992


    KEITH PAULL 1946-2004
    Courtesy of The Sydney Morning Herald


    JEFFERY"MIDGET"SMITH 1952-2008
    Courtesy of Midget Smith website

    BILL WETZEL 1939 -2002
    Started shaping in Australia in the early 1960's. He would work for Jack Haley's shop in Seal Beach and worked for Chuck Dent and Surfboard Surfside in the mid 1960's. Bill would move to San Clemente in the late 1960's and started Wetzel Surform and then Wetzel Surfboards












    • ALONG WITH SURFERS WHO LED THE WAY IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF SURFING



    BUTCH Van ARTSDALEN 1941-1979 COURTESY OF SURFER MAGAZINE 1979
    MIKI DORA 1934-2002
    MICHAEL WASCH 1949-2007
    ROBERT "BOBBY" PATTERSON 1935-1995

    BUD BROWNE 1912 - 2008
    Bud Browne, known as “the father of surf films,” began shooting footage on 8- and 16-millimeter cameras in the late 1940s. He screened his first film, the 45-minute-long “Hawaii Surfing Movies,” in California beach towns in 1953. Admission cost 65 cents. Courtesy of the LA Times

    BUZZY TRENT 1929 - 2006
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