SHF Visitors

We get a wide range of visitors on any given day. Local groms, legends, pros, and a fair number from foreign lands.

 Manuel Arroyo, Paula Armengod, Yago de la Mora from Santander, Spain.

 Asaki, Nemoto, Yamaguchi, Hanzawa, Nishitani, and Miyamoto from Japan.

Ivo Kemper and Tamar Moorman from Holland.

 Hans Tegebo brought by Dale Webster's board that Dale broke the "13,000 consecutive days surfed" mark with. Dale's now at 36 years of surfing everyday, catching at least 4 waves each session. Who says surfers are obsessed. We'll be displaying the board here while it's on loan.

  Jon and Rosa Wegener came by for a first-time visit, to see the Grain board building class in progress. They were naturally drawn to this hollow Gordon Woods board.

 The February 2013 graduation Grain board building class. As you can see, a wide variety of shapes were worked on. (That's 2 time world longboard champ, Jen Smith, seated with her brand new paipo)

  Jackson and Mark Christy flank Dick Metz at our "Evening with Dick Metz". We'll be putting out a DVD as soon  as we're done with editing. 

  Tom Morey showing Leo Hetzel something of interest, we're sure.

  Vincent Kemp helped out during the Grain board building class and when it was over, he donated his paipo that he had previously built from a Grain kit that he had sent away for.

Paul Strauch and Jonathan Jenkins at our evening with Metz. Jonathan has helped us video most of the events and many interviews over the last few years.

  Peter Mel is part of our California Gold Auction Committee. Pete recently won the Mav's contest!

  Dick Metz and some of his classmates from Redlands College, class of 1954.

Dick Metz giving a tour to his Redlands Classmates.

Legendary surfer, skier, and Chart House restaurant founder, Joey Cabell with Dick Metz. photo: Wilkings

Local surfer, artist, hot rodder, etc., Brian Bent stopped by to check out our planks and paddleboards. Brian is hard core old school—no wetsuit, wool sweaters and wooden hollow paddleboards.

The annual Coalition of Surf Club Team Captains meeting was held here recently, just prior to their contest at Church. They were blessed with some of the best wave conditions ever. photo: Linda Michael

Legendary surfer, Bill Fury was here as a guest for the Coalition of Surf Club Team Captains meeting. Photo: Linda Michael

L-R: Carl Tanner, Marni Larkin, Joe Larkin and Kelly Larkin. Photo: Linda Michael

Joe Larkin, Legendary Australian Shaper, and his daughters, Marni and Kelly and Carl Tanner visited Surfing Heritage last month. Joe was inducted into the International Surfboard Builders Hall of Fame at the Longboard Collectors Club's annual meeting at DoHo.

Asier Antoma, Alex Aristegieta, Patxi Usubiaga, Ignacio Liria, and Cedric were visiting from the Basque Country, Spain. They all picked up these vintage Aloha print shirts we have for sale here at SHF.

Lisa Newin, Julie Daumes, Cesar Moreira, and Albert and Mindy Elliott.

We turned the tables on "Curious" Gabe Sullivan and asked him which was his favorite board from our collection. The AH-Wooooo!

Founding Partners, Mark and Cindy Fragale were here on a visit from Oahu. Mark runs the Honolulu Surfing Museum.

Miles, Blake, Dean, Noah, and Sean. Nuff said.

Nasrin Rahinieh, George Lang, John and Karen Young, and Angie Alford.

Steve West, Kurt Feeter, Kirby Fosgatt came down from Santa Cruz.

 Jeff and Azure Wolfe, and Karen and Greg Chisolm were here to see our Weber exhibit. 

Bill Zielinski, and Rena and Tim Passar were here on Oct 18. 

Early Hobie employee, Dennis Olsen came by with family members for a visit. 

Gene Cooper makes some of the most beautiful wave-riding toys around-this one is headed to Japan.

Tim Bessell donated a cherry Bodyglove wetsuit from the early 1970s. He also had one of his "Warhol" surfboards with him.

Jack and Mary Jo Lincke stopped by for a visit and liked this redwood and balsa mini gun Greg Noll made for DIck Metz.

This photo is from last year when Derek Jardine was visiting from South Africa and Doc Paskowitz and he came in for an interview.

 

SHF Founding Partners, Teresa and Sam Gornto were visiting from Florida. photo: Linda Michael

 SHF Founding & Sustaining Partners, Joe and Ellie Dunn brought the extended family by for a visit. Dick Metz was here to give them the grand tour. photo: Linda Michael

 Gracelyn Rezmer was visiting from Wisconsin and looking for material on Tom Blake (also from Wisconsin), for a school project. We highly approve of her choice of subject matter!. photo: Linda Michael

 Photographer, Tim Hogan is producing a book on the history of surfboard fins and has been shooting many boards and fins from our collection. It's an amazingly elaborate set-up that he utilizes, each fin takes about an hour to photograph. photo: Linda Michael

 Troy McElveen is assisting Tim on the surfboard fin project. Here he is operating another piece of the equipment they use. photo: Linda Michael

 Floyd Smith, Dick Metz, and George Bensen. photo: Linda Michael

 Floyd Smith and George Bensen standing in front of one of George's restored Woodies. photo: Linda Michael

South Coast Distributor, Rick Arons, and Mike Perch. photo: Linda Michael

San Clemente Mayor, Jim Evert, and San Onofre Foundation and California Surf Museum President, Jim Kempton, posing here in front of Greg Long's Eddie board. photo: Linda Michael

Dick Metz and Steve Wilking's friend, surfer Malcolm McCassy. photo: Linda Michael

Craig Le Seuer, the winner of our Found It In the Archives contest dropped by. photo: Linda Michael

Rick Thompson, our next-door neighbor at ReShape Medical came by to do some shopping. photo: Linda Michael

SHF Photo Archivist, Steve Wilkings and Roger Yates (Forgotten Island of Santosha) pose in front of the Velzy Shaping Shack. photo: Barry Haun

SHF Curator, Barry Haun is pictured here with surfing historian, Bruce Gabrielson, and HB legend, Chuck Linnen. Bruce donated a couple of Dale Velzy's shaping lights and one of Dale's gun templates. photo: Steve Wilkings

Harlan Patterson and Kevin Julien were visiting from Nova Scotia. Harlan glassed the Todd Chesser, Rusty surfboard back when he owned Pacific Surf Glass. photo: Linda Michael

   Colin Foulker and Chris Bugge were visiting from the UK. photo: Linda Michael

  Dan, Nora, and Tom McCarthy were here from Long Beach, New York. photo: Linda Michael

   George Stremple in red is holding one of the boards he donated a few years back and Frank Van Wickle is holding one of 4 boards donated by the Quinard family. photo: Linda Michael

 Glen Thompson is over from South Africa and using our library to do research for his thesis. photo: Linda Michael

Legendary Shaper, Rich Harbour and Steve Wilkings check out one of Phil Edwards' shapes. photo: Linda Michael

Brothers Britt and Chris Janusz with a couple boards from their collection. photo: Linda Michael

Mike Schwarner, and Vincent and Emilie. Vincent and Emilie were visiting from France.
photo: Linda Michael

Paul and Karen Samuelson with a balsa board that was glassed by Danny Brawner. photo: Linda Michael

Fuzzy foto. That's Christian Driggs, Rob Givens, Lindsay Perry, and Pierce Michael Kavanagh stopping by for a visit yesterday. photo: BKH

About a dozen Adventure Guides-Big Sky Circle, Laguna Niguel Nation, came by for a visit and tour. Being second-graders, I was able to hold their attention for about 30 seconds, but their dads seemed to appreciate the info. Barry, SHF Curator, etc. photo: Linda Michael

Our archivist Becki Church's sister Amy, and her family. Husband Bryan, and kids, Katie, Isaac, Mckenzie, and Benny Thulin.

SHF Curator Barry Haun, legendary shaper Terry Martin, David Krause, SHF co-founder Spencer Croul, and SHF Executive Director Bolton Colburn

The Coalition of Surf Clubs' Team Captains and various members, met at SHF on the eve of the annual Church contest, 1/6/12. photo: Linda Michael

SHF Director & docent, Denny Michael, accepts a $1,000 donation from DLSA President Mark Calkins, and DSLA VP Bobby Knox. Thank you Doheny Longboard Surfing Association! photo: Linda Michael

Surfing legend and former Hawaii State Senator, Fred Hemmings dropped by and met our new Executive Director, Bolton Colburn. Fred's daughter, Kaui Hart Hemmings, wrote the novel, "The Descendants”, whose film version with George Clooney, is nominated for 5 Oscars. photo: Linda Michael

Kemp Aaberg and Richard Yelland working on 12 Miles North: the Nick Gabeldon Story.

Stoked Groms, Noah Cordoza, Dean Michael, and Ben Cordoza. photo: Linda Michael

Mark Weiner, San Diego charger Richard Kenvin, and designer/shaper Carl Ekstrom. photo: BKH

Scott Bass, Wade Koniakowsky and Barry Haun hold up a piece of fiberglass and resin taken from a Matt Kivlin Malibu Chip that is being restored. Wade will be painting the artwork for the Surfing Heritage Vintage Surf Auction directly on the fiberglass. photo: Linda Michael

Michael "Salt" Labita with the Jed Noll, Steven Thomas model that he created the artwork for. photo: Linda Michael

Charlie Fernandez (Jimmy Buffett's manager), and Russ Kunkle (long time drummer for Jackson Browne) came by for a visit. Charlie is now the proud owner of the JP St Pierre (Surfy Surfy) customized Enjoy handplane. photo: BKH