Surfer

Editor’s Note

Just down the hall from my office, in the room where we meet to brainstorm features and drink beer after finishing particularly taxing issues, sits the entire SURFER Magazine archive. It amounts to 57 years worth of surf history, starting with the 36-page pamphlet that SURFER founder John Severson made to promote his 1960 film, and ending with whatever the last issue was that we

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