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- Description (Brief)
- This is a single glassed, lightweight surfboard with a single fin, and two fin boxes. According to the donor, Craig Stecyk, "the board was shaped by me in December of 1966. It was manufactured by Dave Sweet Surfboards, Santa Monica, CA (Sweet pictured here holding a board similar to the one donated by Stecyk). It was single glassed (less fiberglass than usual) to promote lightweight and flexibility (ditto for lack of a central strip). The fin is a Reynolds Yater #2 design from the Tom Morey Finworks. It is polypropylene in construction. The board features a stepped deck (for better sensitivity and control when riding on its front third). It has two fin boxes allowing for repositioning of the fin. (This will change the riding characteristics of the board. The center position is "normal". The outside position is the variable position). The bottom color design was also done by me and is typical of the "plastic fantastic" period. This board is entirely created from plastic materials and is a typical "stringerless" surfboard from 1966-1967. A stringer is slang for the wood center strip common to most surfboards." Stecyk is another eccentric character that lives in the surf and skate world. He is one of the people responsible for the creation of the Zephyr Surf team and the Z-Boys skate team and for bringing surf and skate art to the forefront of that distinctive culture. Stecyk was a writer for “Skateboarder Magazine” during its resurgence in the mid-1970s and spread the word about these growing sports throughout the globe providing his distinctive insight and first person narrative. Stecyk continues to practice his craft as a multimedia artist and still has a direct impact on the graffiti and street art cultures he helped create.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1966
- maker
- Stecyk, Craig R.
- ID Number
- 1988.0256.01
- accession number
- 1988.0256
- catalog number
- 1988.0256.01
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- Description (Brief)
- Early 1970s boogie board made by Tom Morey. Morey was a surfer who also happened to be an engineer that revolutionized the surfing world with many of his board designs. In 1965, Morey teamed up with San Diego surfer and designer Karl Pope and they introduced several trendy surfboard models including the Snub and the Camel. It was during this time that Morey invented the first “commercially successful” removable fin system. Morey also introduced the first prize money contest to surfing, the “$1,500 Tom Morey Invitational.” The contest was also the first timed event and not subjective to judges scoring, having the surfers see how long they could “noseride” the surfboard. It wasn’t until 1973 that Morey re-invented the body board, and named it the Boogie Board, after his love of music. The quirky and eccentric Morey once said, “For anybody to become a graduate of this planet it is essential that they learn to enjoy this activity.”
- date made
- mid 1970s
- ID Number
- 2015.0228.01
- accession number
- 2015.0228
- catalog number
- 2015.0228.01
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- Description (Brief)
- This hollow paddle board was made during the 1940s, and represents Tom Blake’s patented design. When Tom Blake was 18, he met Duke Kahanamoku in a movie theatre lobby in Detroit, Michigan. A year later he moved to Los Angeles and became a competitive swimmer, competing against Kahanamoku in 1922 and beating him. At 19, Blake became a lifeguard at the Santa Monica Swim Club but it wasn’t until 1924 that he began surfing regularly. Blake visited Hawaii that year and was soon surfing alongside Island regulars and studying the boards of the ancient Hawaiians at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. It was then that he began to experiment with board construction becoming one of the greatest innovators of the sport to date. He introduced the patented hollow paddleboard in 1931 which cut the board weight in half and fueled the first boom in surfing as the lighter boards made surfing more accessible to the masses. This board would become a standard piece of equipment as a life saving device used by lifeguards throughout the globe. In 1935, his second innovation was the stabilizing fin and although it did not catch on in Hawaii for another five years this design advance is what almost all future board advances were built and became standard in 1940. In 1932, The Thomas Rogers Company of Venice, California carried a line of ‘Tom Blake Hawaiian Paddle Boards’ making Blake one of the first board builders to have his creations mass produced. Blake also became one of the first surf photographers and in 1929 made an underwater housing for a camera he bought from Kahanamoku and proceeded to take photographs of surfers in action, in and under the water. Some of his photographs were published in a 1935 issue of The National Geographic along with his book “Hawaiian Surfboard”, the first book featuring a history of surfing.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1940s
- ID Number
- 2015.0189.01
- accession number
- 2015.0189
- catalog number
- 2015.0189.01
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- Description
- This is a film brochure for Bruce Brown Films, Foremost in Surfing Entertainment. Bruce Brown is a California native who began surfing when he was 9. He produced his first film in 1955 while stationed aboard a Navy submarine in Hawaii but it wasn’t for another two years that he really got his start. Dale Velzy, a surfboard shaper and entrepreneur gave Brown a new 16 mm movie camera, paid his way to Hawaii and made Slippery When Wet. This first film had the smooth music and casual and relaxed narration which Brown’s films are known. Two more movies followed in the same vain as the first but in 1961 Brown’s movie, focused on surfer Phil Edwards. Surfing Hollow Days featured the first filmed ride at Pipeline, a famous surfing sport on the North Shore of Hawaii. He put together a compilation film, Waterlogged, for release in 1963 since he was traveling the globe with two actors filming what would become the most iconic surf movie of all time. The Endless Summer movie was written, produced and directed by Bruce Brown. Brown also served as the narrator of this surf ‘diary’ following two young surfers for one summer, around the globe, in search of the “perfect wave.” It was in limited release in 1964 and released worldwide in 1966 grossing $5 million domestically and over $20 million worldwide. Its simplicity was part of its enduring appeal and while naïve and corny to today’s audiences it was an integral part of surf history. The Endless Summer introduced the world to surfing, a nation of bored teens to the idea of travel and created a popularity of surf culture that endures today.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1960s
- ID Number
- 2015.3122.07
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3122
- catalog number
- 2015.3122.07
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- Description (Brief)
- This is a Velzy, Malibu Chip surfboard made of balsa with a layer of fiberglass on the surface and a 10 inch fin on the underside. The Malibu Chip, incorporated Hawaiian board designs, into West Coast board designs, meant to accommodate the California surf which was much different than the Hawaiian surf. The west coast surf was choppier and smaller than that of Hawaii which allowed the ‘chip’, which was a much lighter and smaller board, to make quick turns. This style of riding became known as the “Malibu” style which differed from the old style of riding the wave straight into shore without much maneuvering on the part of the rider. The ‘Chip” became popular with girls because it was smaller, lighter and easier to carry into the water which helped propel the surfing boom of the late 1950s.
- Dale Velzy began surfing in 1935 and was soon shaping redwood boards for his friends in his hometown of Hermosa Beach, California. In 1949 he opened Velzy surf shop often thought to be the first one of its kind. He landed in Venice Beach in 1954 to team up with friend and board maker Hap Jacobs and by the end of the decade Velzy-Jacobs Surfboards had five locations on the California coast and Hawaii. According to The Encyclopedia of Surfing, “Velzy was most known for creating the “Pig” which dropped the board's wide point back toward the tail, further improving maneuverability—was another key step in surfboard design evolution. ‘It changed the sport,’ Quigg later said. ‘Suddenly you had thousands of these kids out there riding pigs. There was a time when you couldn't even sell a board in California unless it looked like a Velzy.’” In the 1950s, Velzy was the largest manufacturer of surfboards but through loose spending and bad accounting practices he had lost it all before the boom of the 1960s took hold. Velzy’s influence and gregarious presence in the surfing community remained strong until his death in 2005.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2015.0188.01
- accession number
- 2015.0188
- catalog number
- 2015.0188.01
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- Description
- Handbill advertising a screening of the The Endless Summer movie held on July 1st at the Beach Convention Hall and a July 28th screening at the Asbury Park Convention Hall. The Endless Summer movie was written, produced and directed by Bruce Brown. Brown also served as the narrator of this surf ‘diary’ following two young surfers for one summer, around the globe, in search of the “perfect wave.” It was in limited release in 1964 and released worldwide in 1966 grossing $5 million domestically and over $20 million worldwide. Its simplicity was part of its enduring appeal and while naïve and corny to today’s audiences it was an integral part of surf history. The Endless Summer introduced the world to surfing, a nation of bored teens to the idea of travel and created a popularity of surf culture that endures today.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1966
- ID Number
- 2015.3122.02
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3122
- catalog number
- 2015.3122.02
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- Description (Brief)
- Black and red plaid hooded snowboarding jacket worn by Shaun White in 2000 while creating tricks for Olympic competition during the Red Bull Project X in Silverton, Colorado. When Shaun White turned 6 his family bought a van and spent every weekend skiing and snowboarding in the San Bernardino Mountains and sleeping in the van. By the age of 7 White was winning competitions and Burton Snowboards was his sponsor. White’s natural ability, hard work and dedication to the sport made him the most decorated athlete in X-Games history with 24 snowboarding and skateboarding medals combined, 15 of those are gold, the most in event history. At the 2012 Winter X-Games, he earned the only perfect score ever achieved in the Superpipe event, winning gold for the fifth consecutive time. White has won Olympic gold medals in the halfpipe event at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Games propelling the extreme sport of snowboarding into the mainstream.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- user
- White, Shaun
- maker
- Burton Snowboards
- ID Number
- 2010.0244.01
- accession number
- 2010.0244
- catalog number
- 2010.0244.01
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- Description
- This is a $1.50 ticket for the movie The Endless Summer. The movie was written, produced and directed by Bruce Brown. Brown also served as the narrator of this surf ‘diary’ following two young surfers for one summer, around the globe, in search of the “perfect wave.” It was in limited release in 1964 and released worldwide in 1966 grossing $5 million domestically and over $20 million worldwide. Its simplicity was part of its enduring appeal and while naïve and corny to today’s audiences it was an integral part of surf history. The Endless Summer introduced the world to surfing, a nation of bored teens to the idea of travel and created a popularity of surf culture that endures today.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1966
- ID Number
- 2015.3122.05.1
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3122
- catalog number
- 2015.3122.05.1
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- Description
- Fiberglassed, foam core surfboard made by Hobie Alter in 1963 for the movie, The Endless Summer. This board is designed to fold up and has a bolt in the center which unscrews to let the board fold in half. This feature was designed by Alter to fit the surfboard in the overhead compartments of airplanes in the 1960s. This innovation demonstrated surfing’s global appeal and the use of air travel as the preferred choice for surfers to find that perfect wave much like the surfers in The Endless Summer. These were only made for a limited time as the board would bend and flex in big surf and become unstable. Hobie Alter began surfing at an early age and reinvented surfboard manufacturing with the use of polyurethane in the late 1950s. These early foam boards had ‘foam defects’ such as large air bubbles, so an opaque coloring was used to hide those flaws; pastel colors were the predominant color scheme used and would become an iconic feature of the boards of this era. Alter became known as the Henry Ford of surfing and by 1959 nearly all the top surfers had switched to foam boards.
- The Endless Summer movie was written, produced and directed by Bruce Brown in 1964. Brown also served as the narrator of this surf ‘diary’ following two young surfers for one summer, around the globe, in search of the “perfect wave.” It was in limited release in 1964 and released worldwide in 1966 grossing $5 million domestically and over $20 million worldwide. Its simplicity was part of its enduring appeal and while naïve and corny to today’s audiences it was an integral part of surf history. The Endless Summer introduced the world to surfing, a nation of bored teens to the idea of travel and created a popularity of surf culture that endures today.
- date made
- 1960s
- ID Number
- 2015.0186.01
- accession number
- 2015.0186
- catalog number
- 2015.0186.01
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- Description (Brief)
- This wooden Burton Backhill snowboard was designed by Jake Burton. Jake Burton Carpenter began designing snowboards in 1977 and today Burton is one of the largest manufacturers of snowboards, equipment and apparel in the world. Burton, as he is known, had competed with the Snurfer, the predecessor to the modern snowboard but knew improvements could be made for a smoother ride. A few modifications and the addition of foot bindings led Burton to enter the biggest Snurfer contest in the country with his own board. Technically he won the event but was disqualified because he had not used a Snurfer which, up until then, was the only snowboard allowed in the competition. The Backhill board was introduced in 1979 and was the first board to offer graphics, regular and goofy foot stances and binding adjustments you could make without any tools. It was during this time that snowboarding was not allowed in resorts and snowboarders had to walk up the mountain and ride on the “back of the hill” to make a run with their snowboards. Later snowboarders were allowed on the slopes if they were registered with the resort and carried an identification card. In 1985 only 5 percent of the U.S ski resorts allowed snowboarding and just two years later that jumped to 95 percent with Burton making it possible with their board, binding and boot innovations.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1985
- maker
- Burton Snowboards
- ID Number
- 2010.0240.01
- accession number
- 2010.0240
- catalog number
- 2010.0240.01
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- Description
- This program is for an early screening for the movie The Endless Summer. The movie was written, produced and directed by Bruce Brown. Brown also served as the narrator of this surf ‘diary’ following two young surfers for one summer, around the globe, in search of the “perfect wave.” It was in limited release in 1964 and released worldwide in 1966 grossing $5 million domestically and over $20 million worldwide. Its simplicity was part of its enduring appeal and while naïve and corny to today’s audiences it was an integral part of surf history. The Endless Summer introduced the world to surfing, a nation of bored teens to the idea of travel and created a popularity of surf culture that endures today.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1966
- ID Number
- 2015.3122.01
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3122
- catalog number
- 2015.3122.01
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- Description
- This is a business card for Bruce Brown, an early pioneer in the surf film genre and director of the movie, The Endless Summer released in 1966. Bruce Brown is a California native who began surfing when he was 9. He produced his first film in 1955 while stationed aboard a Navy submarine in Hawaii but it wasn’t for another two years that he really got his start. Dale Velzy, a surfboard shaper and entrepreneur gave Brown a new 16 mm movie camera and paid his way to Hawaii where Brown made Slippery When Wet. This first film had the smooth music and casual and relaxed narration which Brown’s films are known. Two more movies followed in the same vain as the first but in 1961 Brown’s movie, focused on surfer Phil Edwards. Surfing Hollow Days featured the first filmed ride at Pipeline, a famous surfing spot on the North Shore of Hawaii. He put together a compilation film, Waterlogged, for release in 1963 since he was traveling the globe with two actors filming what would become the most iconic surf movie of all time. The Endless Summer movie was written, produced and directed by Bruce Brown. Brown also served as the narrator of this surf ‘diary’ following two young surfers for one summer, around the globe, in search of the “perfect wave.” It was in limited release in 1964 and released worldwide in 1966 grossing $5 million domestically and over $20 million worldwide. Its simplicity was part of its enduring appeal and while naïve and corny to today’s audiences it was an integral part of surf history.The Endless Summer introduced the world to surfing, a nation of bored teens to the idea of travel and created a popularity of surf culture that endures today.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1960s
- ID Number
- 2015.3122.06
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3122
- catalog number
- 2015.3122.06
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- Description (Brief)
- These black lined snowboard pants were worn by Shaun White in 2009 while creating tricks for Olympic competition during the Red Bull Project X in Silverton, Colorado. When Shaun White turned 6 his family bought a van and spent every weekend skiing and snowboarding in the San Bernardino Mountains and sleeping in the van. By the age of 7 White was winning competitions and Burton Snowboards was his sponsor. White’s natural ability, hard work and dedication to the sport made him the most decorated athlete in X-Games history with 24 snowboarding and skateboarding medals combined, 15 of those are gold, the most in event history. At the 2012 Winter X-Games, he earned the only perfect score ever achieved in the Superpipe event, winning gold for the fifth consecutive time. White has won Olympic gold medals in the halfpipe event at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Games propelling the extreme sport of snowboarding into the mainstream.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- user
- White, Shaun
- maker
- Burton Snowboards
- ID Number
- 2010.0244.02
- accession number
- 2010.0244
- catalog number
- 2010.0244.02
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- Description
- This black and white photograph is of Bruce Brown shooting a scene from The Endless Summer from the water. Bruce Brown is a California native who began surfing when he was 9. He produced his first film in 1955 while stationed aboard a Navy submarine in Hawaii but it wasn’t for another two years that he really got his start. Dale Velzy, a surfboard shaper and entrepreneur gave Brown a new 16 mm movie camera, paid his way to Hawaii and made Slippery When Wet. This first film had the smooth music and casual and relaxed narration which Brown’s films are known. Two more movies followed in the same vain as the first but in 1961 Brown’s movie, focused on surfer Phil Edwards. Surfing Hollow Days featured the first filmed ride at Pipeline, a famous surfing sport on the North Shore of Hawaii. He put together a compilation film, Waterlogged, for release in 1963 since he was traveling the globe with two actors filming what would become the most iconic surf movie of all time. The Endless Summer movie was written, produced and directed by Bruce Brown. Brown also served as the narrator of this surf ‘diary’ following two young surfers for one summer, around the globe, in search of the “perfect wave.” It was in limited release in 1964 and released worldwide in 1966 grossing $5 million domestically and over $20 million worldwide. Its simplicity was part of it enduring appeal and while naïve and corny to today’s audiences it was an integral part of surf history. It introduced the world to surfing, a nation of bored teens to the idea of travel and created a popularity of surf culture that endures today.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1960s
- ID Number
- 2015.3122.08
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3122
- catalog number
- 2015.3122.08
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- Description
- These two gray plastic film canisters contain an original print of The Endless Summer movie written, produced and directed by Bruce Brown in 1964. Brown also served as the narrator of this surf ‘diary’ following two young surfers for one summer, around the globe, in search of the “perfect wave.” It was in limited release in 1964 and released worldwide in 1966 grossing $5 million domestically and over $20 million worldwide. Its simplicity was part of its enduring appeal and while naïve and corny to today’s audiences it was an integral part of surf history. The Endless Summer introduced the world to surfing, a nation of bored teens to the idea of travel and created a popularity of surf culture that endures today.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1966
- ID Number
- 2015.0227.01
- accession number
- 2015.0227
- catalog number
- 2015.0227.01
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- Description (Brief)
- This redwood surfboard was shaped by Duke Kahanamoku on the beach at Corona Del Mar, California in 1928. The board was reshaped in 1961 by Joe Quigg, a revolutionary board maker from Santa Monica but it is unknown how Quigg came to own the board. Mike Marshall, the donor's husband acquired the board in 1970 after Quigg moved back to Hawaii and left the board. The flying "V" on this board was re-carved by artist Larry Miller in 1989. Originally Kahanamoku shaped this board for Jerry Vultee, an avid surfer and aerospace engineer who worked for Lockheed Martin in the 1930s. Vultee designed the Lockheed Sirus Tingmissartog flown by Charles Lindbergh and the Winnie Mae #2 of Oklahoma, both currently housed at the Air and Space Museum.
- Duke Kahanamoku, an Olympic gold medal swimmer became known more for his surfing ability and is often referred to as the “father of modern surfing.” Duke made surfing accessible to the average person by making it look easy and less dangerous. He furthered the sport through swimming and surfing exhibitions given around the world after his gold medal performance at the 1912 and 1920 Olympics. He would often shape boards and leave them for the surfers in other countries so they could copy the boards and sustain his surfing legacy. The Duke’s trips to the mainland drew many Californians to Hawaii in the 1920s ready to live the surfing lifestyle. He was an original Waikiki Beach Boy, Island surfers who assisted tourists with surfing lessons, outrigger canoe rides and information on tides, weather and local fishing reports. Women tourists could often be seem riding on the front of one of the ‘Boys’ surfboards or on their shoulders surfing into shore. Kahanamoku became synonymous with the word ‘surfing’ and became the sports first and most celebrated ambassador.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1928
- ID Number
- 2015.0190.01
- accession number
- 2015.0190
- catalog number
- 2015.0190.01
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- Description (Brief)
- Balsa wood Paipo board made in the 1930s with the fin added in the 1950s. The board is small and oval in shape with a fiberglass surface added probably when the fin was added in the 1950s. The Hawaiian word, Pae Po’o means to surf head first, which Captain Cook and his crew witnessed when they arrived in Hawaii, in 1778. Watching the “native” men, women and children riding these boards on their belly or on their knees must have been quite a sight for the sailors who sailed into the shores of Hawaii. These smaller boards were easier to ride than the larger, heavier boards of the time which only the strongest of warriors and the greatest of leaders were chosen to ride. This board is the great grandfather of the Morey Boogie Board and has brought joy to ‘surfers’ for centuries.
- date made
- 1930s
- ID Number
- 2015.0187.01
- accession number
- 2015.0187
- catalog number
- 2015.0187.01
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- Description
- Original, silk screened, 60 x 40 inch, Day-Glo poster for “The Endless Summer” movie designed by John van Hamersveld. Van Hamersveld was the Art Director for Surfer Magazine and a friend of R. Paul Allen at the time. He was only paid $150.00 for the iconic design of both actors and the director, silhouetted on the beach, against the setting sun. Allen, the assistant cinematographer on the movie, hired silk screener, Eric Askew to produce the poster in a garage in Costa Mesa, California.
- In 1962 John Van Hamersveld was working as the Art Director for Surfing Illustrated Magazine before moving to Surfer where he was working when he created this Day-Glo poster. The poster’s premise was Browns but Van Hamersveld took Bob Bagley’s image of the movie’s stars Mike Hynson and Robert August and Brown and transformed it into a 1960s neon masterpiece. The lettering was handwritten by Van Hamersveld. According to the Encyclopedia of Surfing, a critic wrote of Van Hamersveld's iconic poster, "The colors the image was rendered in, the pinks and oranges and yellows out of a Crayola box, out of a Life Savers roll, out of an acid trip, anticipated Timothy Leary’s 'Turn on, tune in, drop out' by a good three years."
- "The Endless Summer" movie was written, produced and directed by Bruce Brown in 1964. Brown also served as the narrator of this surf ‘diary’ following two young surfers for one summer, around the globe, in search of the “perfect wave.” It was in limited release in 1964 and released worldwide in 1966 grossing $5 million domestically and over $20 million worldwide. Its simplicity was part of its enduring appeal and while naïve and corny to today’s audiences it was an integral part of surf history. “The Endless Summer” introduced the world to surfing, a nation of bored teens to the idea of travel and created a popularity of surf culture that endures today.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1964
- ID Number
- 2015.0227.02
- accession number
- 2015.0227
- catalog number
- 2015.0227.02
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- Description
- Invitation for the movie The Endless Summer invites the holder to a screening of the movie on Tuesday June 14th at 8:45 pm at Kips Bay Theatre. After being turned down by Hollywood to distribute his film, Bruce Brown rented the Kips Bay Theatre in New York to prove his film had an audience. He had wanted to rent the theatre for a couple of weeks but ended up renting it for a year after The Endless Summer sold out most weekends. The Endless Summer movie was written, produced and directed by Bruce Brown. Brown also served as the narrator of this surf ‘diary’ following two young surfers for one summer, around the globe, in search of the “perfect wave.” It was in limited release in 1964 and released worldwide in 1966 grossing $5 million domestically and over $20 million worldwide. Its simplicity was part of its enduring appeal and while naïve and corny to today’s audiences it was an integral part of surf history. The Endless Summer introduced the world to surfing, a nation of bored teens to the idea of travel and created a popularity of surf culture that endures today.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1966
- ID Number
- 2015.3122.04
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3122
- catalog number
- 2015.3122.04
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- Description
- This is a $1.50 ticket for the movie The Endless Summer. The movie was written, produced and directed by Bruce Brown. Brown also served as the narrator of this surf ‘diary’ following two young surfers for one summer, around the globe, in search of the “perfect wave.” It was in limited release in 1964 and released worldwide in 1966 grossing $5 million domestically and over $20 million worldwide. Its simplicity was part of its enduring appeal and while naïve and corny to today’s audiences it was an integral part of surf history. The Endless Summer introduced the world to surfing, a nation of bored teens to the idea of travel and created a popularity of surf culture that endures today.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1966
- ID Number
- 2015.3122.05.3
- nonaccession number
- 2015.3122
- catalog number
- 2015.3122.05.3
