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Greg Martz Art
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Greg Liddle "Jaws" board
This Liddle “Jaws” “Trashcan Nose” model was shaped in 1979 by Greg Liddle for John Parker to surf in the Point Breaks of Malibu, Rincon, and The Ranch. Its shape and design was inspired by Steve Krawejski and Andy Davis, both creative forces and riders of the Southern California displacement hull movement of the 1970s-90s, which included Greg Liddle and Paul Gross.
This board was a unique outline with asymmetrical rail lines. The right “inside” rail is shaped for forward thrust and trim while the left “outside” rail is shaped for long drawnout cutbacks. The wide nose was shaped using a metal trashcan lid as its template, thus the “Trashcan” model.
It has been ridden by John Parker, Bobby Shorr, and has the distinction of being the first and only shortboard ever ridden by the legendary Lance Carson.
As Lance said on 10/14/17, “I rode Parker’s “Jaws” model at Malibu back in the early 80s. The Greg Liddle crew stopped me at the Point as I was heading out with my longboard. They goaded me into trying that 7’5” hull… my first and only experience. I gotta say… that thing RIPPED! Hulls DO WORK. But you have to know what you’re doing.”
Donated from John Parker to Yvonne and Rusty Russell with the help of Paul Jay Diamond.
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An evening with Photographer Todd Glaser
Come join us at SHACC on Saturday, November 18, from 5-8PM, for an evening with renowned surf photographer, Todd Glaser and special guests.
Todd's work has taken him to remote surf spots from Tahiti to Alaska to Indonesia to Mexico, Todd has captured some of the biggest names in the surf world and photographed some of the world's most famous and dangerous waves.
Todd Glaser is a San Diego-born photographer, surfer, and waterman. A SURFER Staff Photographer since 2008, Glaser is prolific for his young age, earning more than a dozen covers during his tenure at the magazine. Equally talented shooting land, water, and lifestyle photography, his work has also appeared in The New York Times, Outside, Rolling Stone, Men’s Health, GQ and the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, in Washington DC. He recently released his first book titled Proximity: a 300 page hardbound color book documenting the 8 of the worlds best surfers traveling to new waves and capturing their relationships (We'll have copies of Proximityavailable at the event). When he isn’t globetrotting chasing swells, treading water shooting in the tropics, or capturing images of the first wave ever ridden at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch, Featured in the 2010 release "Surfer Magazine: Fifty Years," Todd was awarded a Follow The Light Foundation grant in 2008 and won 2009 Surfer Magazine Photo of the Year, amongst numerous other awards." Glaser can be found riding waves around his home, on a variety of equipment types, and enjoying the company of his wife, Jenna.
Entrance is $5, this is an all ages event.
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110 Calle Iglesia · San Clemente · CA · 92672
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Vintage Surf Patch
This classic shot of Duke Kahanamoku, taken at the US Surfing Championships in Huntington Beach shows Duke wearing a jacket featuring the official patch from the contest. If you'd like to own one of these original patches, click HERE.
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Bruce Brown · 1937-2017 · RIP
The maker of surfing's most iconic film (and the most watched documentary of all time), The Endless Summer, Bruce Brown passed away in his sleep on Sunday night, December 10, 2017, at his home in Santa Barbara county. Bruce also made the notable On Any Sunday, a film about the lifestyles of motorcycle racers. Actor Steve McQueen was co-producer on the film. Bruce along with memorabilia and a copy of The Endless Summer were inducted into the Smithsonian Museum of American History in 2015.
"Bruce Brown began riding waves near his Long Beach home in the early mid-1950s, still an embryonic period in California surfing when just hundreds rode waves and there was a pervasive feeling amongst those few that they were into a “secret thrill” that was better and more important than almost anything else they had ever done. It was hard to put it into words. By the late 1950s, Bruce became one of four surfers who were the earliest to attempt to capture and share that “stoke” in 16mm cult films that they four-walled around beach towns to grass roots surf crowds. The others, Bud Browne-the oldest and father of surf movies, Greg Noll-a bull-headed, go-for-it board builder and big wave rider, and John Severson-an art teacher/surfer. Each flavored their films with their unique personalities. Bruce, himself a good surfer, used his dry sense of humor while revealing an inner knowledge of the little things about the wave riding experience that surfers found addicting. In his epic, “The Endless Summer”, he was the first to tell a story, not just show rides at different breaks. When he hesitantly risked showing that film in New York and Kansas City, both the critics and general public were wowed by his casual, California beach-style of story telling that plunged them deep into a cool and colorful world and attitude that most had not even known existed."– Steve Pezman, Founder of The Surfer’s Journal
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Vintage Hobie Skate Team Jacket
This 50-year-old Hobie Super Surfer Skateboard Team jacket is being loaned to us by Colleen Turner, a former Hobie skate team member. It's currently on display in our Surf 2 Skate exhibit, through January 2018.
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A Hobie Hawk
"I did it the way I wanted too - each part used the best materials available for the specific application. It was a complete package and we had the capability to make the Hawk so we did. There was nothing else out there like it at the time, everything else was a balsa build up kit, I wanted to produce something much different, something that could take the punishment and was faster to build for the consumer... and yes, although the wing was complicated it was not difficult for us because of our background in the sailing and surfboard industry, foam core laminating was what we did."
"I feel that out of all my projects the Hawk was one of the better things I did, each part made from the proper materials, it was a quality product and I am proud of it... and it was fun!"—Hobie Alter (excerpted from hobiehawk.com)
We now have a Hobie Hawk in the SHACC collection and it's on display in our showroom!
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"The lasting influence of Bruce Brown"
“You can’t tell how good a wave is until you ride it,” Bruce Brown once said.
Brown never set out to change the sport of surfing. In the beginning he was just a guy making surf movies with his friends. His early works include jazz-infused Surf Crazy, Barefoot Adventure and Surfing Hollow Days. Then came The Endless Summer in 1964 and everything changed.
The Endless Summer ended up smashing national theater attendance records during its 18-month run and showed for 48 straight weeks in New York City. Film critics labelled Brown “the Bergman of the boards” and “the Fellini of the foam.” It even transcended the Cold War when the U.S. State Department showed it at the Moscow Film Festival. What the film meant for surfing was a broader acceptance of the sport, and more importantly, the lifestyle. It also provided surfers with the freedom to dream and discover what waves may be breaking beyond the horizon.
Following on that success, Brown teamed up with actor Steve McQueen to produce the Academy Award-nominated motorcycle film, On Any Sunday. Largely shot in the dunes behind Dana Point, it proved to be as transformative to the moto-riding world as The Endless Summer was for surfing.
In 1994, Brown reprised his classic, and alongside his son, Dana Brown, set out to make The Endless Summer II. Starring Robert “Wingnut” Weaver and Pat O’Connell, the film was a huge hit with the new generation. Starring icons of the sport such as Kelly Slater, Laird Hamilton and Gerry Lopez, it reinvigorated the surf culture and solidified Brown’s reputation as the greatest surf filmmaker of all time.
On December 10, 2017, Brown slipped from this world. In a tribute to the master, the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center is celebrating his life and accomplishments with a special remembrance exhibit. Partnering with the Brown family, it will offer a unique, in-depth look at the life and times of Bruce Brown.
The exhibit is set to debut in February 10 and will run through April, 2018. Stay tuned for more details.
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Eve Fletcher
A classic image of local Sano legend, Eve Fletcher surfing Makhaha in 1958
A contemporary of Gidget in the mid-1950s, Eve Fletcher was a Disney animator who took to the waves in 1957.
Soft-spoken, 5'3," Fletcher caught her first wave over 60 years ago (Fletcher was 30 before she ever paddled out).
An East Coaster by birth, Fletcher moved with her family to the San Fernando Valley at age 10, where she became an avid swimmer when her parents joined the local country club. Later, she took a job in Disney's Ink & Paint department, where she contributed to films like Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland. Fletcher was an animation supervisor for the company (where she continued to work through the 1989 feature The Little Mermaid before receiving the Animation Guild's Golden Award in 2005) when, at age 30, she finally ventured down to the San Onofre shore. Toting her first surfboard-a gift from actor Johnny Sheffield (who played Boy in several Tarzan films), she happened to meet the most famous surfer of the time, Marge Calhoun. When Fletcher asked her for advice, Calhoun's reply was, "You just paddle and then stand up!"
Fletcher took to the water in no time. After a year, she cashed in her vacation time and packed up for a month-long Hawaiian "surf-ari" with Calhoun. Back in California, she was a member of the San Onofre Surf Club, and a familiar face on the beaches of Malibu and Rincon. She was among the many senior surfers to be featured in the documentary Surfing For Life.
(Excerpt from The Bluegrass Special, August 2011)
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Bruce Brown Statue
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Pre-registration Campaign for the “The Endless Summer” Special Interest License Plate.
Want to make “The Endless Summer” special interest license plate a reality? Go to SURFPLATE.COM and pre-register to show your support!  Surfing Heritage and Culture Center has been working with sponsors and agencies in Sacramento to create “The Endless Summer” special interest license plate. If approved, proceeds will help SHACC programming to share the history and culture of surfing with future generations. The plate is licensed by Bruce Brown Films and features the iconic poster image designed by artist, John Van Hamersveld. The State of California requires that SHACC submit a minimum of 7,500 applicants before it will approve the plate and proceed with its creation. SHACC has opened a “pre-registration” site in order to gather names to show the public’s interest. The pre-sell will commence after the sponsoring state agency files a letter of intent with the Department of Motor Vehicles and the proposed license plate is approved by the DMV and the California Highway Patrol. “The Endless Summer” is credited with being the first “Adventure travelogue” and introduced the idea of surf travel to mainstream America. Bruce Brown proved its popularity by booking a theater in Wichita, Kansas where it sold out for two straight weeks in the dead of winter. He did a similar booking at New York’s Kips Bay theater where it ran for a year. After these two successful runs, Brown secured a distributor and the film has played millions of times since. Help make “The Endless Summer” special interest license plate a reality! Go to SURFPLATE.COM and pre-register to show your support of the plate. For more information, contact Glenn Brumage, SHACC Executive Director (949) 388-0313 xt8 or glenn@surfingheritage.org |
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Educational Resources
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SHACC’s Dick Metz Featured On The Longboardarian Podcast
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Family Membership
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SHACC Closed Through 2020 Due To COVID-19
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How Three Girls From New Jersey Changed The Game
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Founders
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Sharon Marshall
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Wayne Penn Schafer
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Cedar Sliders And The Aloha Lumber Company
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