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In the Spring of 1963, this guy walked into Ole Surfboards
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  on Bay Boulevard in Seal Beach, California, where I worked as manager Mickey Munñoz's left-hand man. This was a time when surf shops sold surfboards, period! The use of neoprene wetsuits hadn't yet arrived, and the only other auxiliary income such as a retail operation might allow itself to derive came from patching dinged boards. Selling other stuff was considered sissy.  

 
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"Legends of Surfing" by Duke Boyd, Foreword by Steve Pezman publisher of The Surfer's Journal