Photo courtesy of Tom Keck

Dicky Moon
1963, La Jolla Shores. Did he make this turn, I don't remember? I don't know, his skegs barely in the water. I only had a manual advance back then, no motor drive. By the time I went to the next frame I didn't know where he was. He was really cranking. I was shooting Black and White cause I couldn't afford color. The film was so slow then, Kodachrome 25 and Tri X 400 with a century 650mm lens 6.5. Steve Sherman is using that exact lens today. I sold it to Corbin Taylor who let Steve use it and he ended up buying it or, well, maybe he even borrowed it from Corbin. Corbin restores woodies now. Nice kid in his fifties. Great guy.

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Don Hansen
Most likely the same day. One of the pictures for Hansen's surf shop recently. Evidently some people had been stealing the old pictures and Heidi (shop manager) wanted some new ones. This is one of them. I told her to screw them into the wall. Like the chart house where some of the old shots that was just hung on the walls had been. This was at the Shores. Hansen was all right. He got some good waves over the years. He started his surfboard career in my garage in Hawaii in Kewala Bay (Turtle Bay) in 1961. This picture was a little later around 1963. I wish I had invested in his act. He was supporting OP and I didn't have any money at the time.

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Mickey Dora
This was the 1966 awards ceremony for the International Surfing Hall of Fame. Dora was being given an award. Hobie is to the right. Notice the sneakers he is wearing, they were a Hawaiian print. Pretty easy going that night. He was decked out. The event was held at the Hollywood Palladium.

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Mike Doyle
During the World Contest in '66 in San Diego, Mike Doyle was over by the pier, away from the contest area just working out. He was one of Windanseas "ringers." I just went over between heats. I was covering the contest for the LA Times back then. Nat won it. Jock was up there. Years later when the San Dieguito River Vally overflowed and flooded all the low lying areas of Del Mar, near my home, I lost most of the images from this event.

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Hap Jacobs
This is 1992 San Onofre at the Point. Hap doing his thing. He looked so cool I like the rider in the background doing his thing. It added to this great action shot. I don't know Hap at all but talked with him afterward. He saw this shot but didn't order any prints.