–>View the photos and news clippings about Gene “Tarzan” Smith In 1940, Gene “Tarzan” Smith paddled a surfboard from Oahu to the island of Kauai. The event was sponsored by the Hawaii Surfing Association which had been formed just a year earlier. When the Waikiki Surf Club was formed in 1947, Smith became its first [...]
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“Tarzan” Smith paddled a surfboard to Kauai in October 1940
August 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · History, John Lind Collection
Tags: Gene "Tarzan" Smith·Hawaii Surfing Association·John M. Lind·Waikiki Surf Club
More from my dad’s files: Duke, Dad Center, and a day at Makapuu in 1953
August 19th, 2010 · 7 Comments · History, John Lind Collection
–> See today’s full photo gallery. On Sunday, August 16, 1953, the Waikiki Surf Club sponsored the first body surfing championships held in Hawaii since the beginning of World War II. In addition to the body surfing competition, the day included a demonstration by the Hawaii Surf Life Saving Association “featuring the surf-life saving reel [...]
Waikiki Surf Club: Christmas Day, December 25, 1948
August 17th, 2010 · 5 Comments · History, John Lind Collection
The Waikiki Surf Club was just a year old when they put on a winter event featuring a six-mile surfboard race that sent paddlers from Waikiki out around Diamond Head and back. The winners of that inaugural race posed for this photo. It’s just one of several photos from that long ago Christmas that I [...]
Behind the scenes at the Makaha International Surfing Championships in 1958
August 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · John Lind Collection
The temperature in Honolulu rose to 86 degrees on August 19, 1958, but it probably seemed hotter as members of the International Surfing Championship Committee began arriving at the old Pearl City police station for their first planning meeting looking ahead to the next annual event at Makaha, considered the premier and most prestigious surfing [...]
Tags: Makaha International Surfing Championship·Surfing history·Waianae Lions Club·Waikiki·Waikiki Surf Club
Another bit of surf history: The Lahaina Invitational Surfboard Paddling Races, 1960
August 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · John Lind Collection
Here’s another bit of island history found at the bottom of a box of my dad’s assorted papers. It’s the program for the First Annual Lahaina Invitational Surfboard Paddling Races, dated June 11, 1960. Sponsored by the Maui Surf Club, Puunene, Maui. Click on the front cover to browse through the program. It’s in poor [...]
Hawaii surfing and paddling championship held in June 1943
August 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · History, John Lind Collection
In June 1943, a surfing and paddling competition was held in Waikiki, sponsored by the Hawaii Surfing Association, along with the Outrigger Canoe Club and the Honolulu Junior Chamber of Commerce. Martial law was still in effect and barbed wire was strung out along parts of Waikiki Beach. A few photographs of the event, and [...]
Glamour from 1938 surfing competition in Long Beach, California
August 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments · History, John Lind Collection
I keep turning up additional bits and pieces from the First National Surfing Championship held in Long Beach, California, in November and December, 1938. This week I found this wonderful glamour photo, apparently part of the publicity barrage for the event, along with a clip from the Los Angeles Times (unfortunately, no date recorded). The [...]
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Notes on the founding of the Hawaii Surfing Association (1939) and Waikiki Surf Club (1947)
August 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · John Lind Collection
This brief description of the founding of the Hawaii Surfing Association and the Waikiki Surf Club was written by my father, John M. Lind, a founder of both organizations. It was found, along with other notes, among his papers after he moved into a nursing home in 2008. After he retired from his business at [...]
