Whether you’re old enough to remember the old Queen’s Surf, or too young but curious about the former landmark, here’s a bit of history. I posted some of this earlier, but this week I found the missing first page of a 1947 letter from my father to the president of the International Geneva Association in [...]
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Back in August, I posted a series of photographs of a lifesaving demonstration at Makapuu, and a reception at the old Outrigger Canoe Club in Waikiki. The events seemed to revolved around several visitors, including this blond beauty. The visitors were escorted by Duke Kahanamoku, giving the event a certain pizzaz. The problem was that [...]
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Here’s one I wish I had seen earlier this week for my dad’s birthday. It’s an editorial from one of the Honolulu newspapers, published September 22, 1953. Crediting him as “the driving force” behind the revival of the sports of canoe racing and surfing, it concludes: “To a ‘naturalized coast haole,’ Hawaii owes a big [...]
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I received an email last week from Teene Froiseth, which identified all the kids in this early-to-mid-1950s photo that had appeared here earlier. He writes: I am doing some research on Abel and Allen Gomes for an article… and came across your site when I googled Abel! L to R pictured in this classic photo [...]
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Sometime back, I posted photos from what was obviously a group of people at a funeral in Waikiki, including men from the Waikiki Surf Club, dressed for the water. Later, I did some digging, and found other references to the event, which took place in February 1949. After saying goodbye to my dad in the [...]
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Four canoes from the Waikiki Surf Club, including its legendary Koa racing canoe, Malia, escorted my father’s ashes out of Ala Wai Boat Harbor late yesterday afternoon as we scattered his ashes in the ocean that he loved. It was a very high honor bestowed on the club’s co-founder. In this photo, Wally Froiseth, co-founder [...]
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We’re going to be scattering my father’s ashes in the ocean off Waikiki and the Ala Wai Boat Harbor tomorrow afternoon in a semi-private memorial. A few friends, neighbors, and family. He will have the honor of being carried out by the Waikiki Surf Club’s classic Koa canoe, Malia. I think he would be pleased. [...]
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Sports editor Mike Guardabascio at Gazettes.com produced an obituary of my father that tied him back to his Long Beach roots. Though Lind left the city 70 years ago, and though waves left Long Beach’s shores in 1949, surfing remains a vital part of Long Beach’s sports history—and Lind an essential part of that history. [...]
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