Aloha Christensen, McIntire and Garner
Garner was top Golden Era team rider
Ronnie Garner (left) on the beach with his crew during the Golden Era of Surfing, in the late ‘60s. Garner was a team rider for the Bay Area Surf Club, and the Rick and Weber surf shops. In 1967, he was ranked 15th in the Surfer Magazine poll. His professional long board career was cut short the following year when he was drafted into the Army. Upon his return he continued to compete in amateur longboard contests. Garner was inducted into the Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame in 2019.
Gentleman power surfer Christensen
Nick Christensen still throwing buckets during a 2012 South Bay Boardriders contest in El Porto. Christensen was known as a power surfer in the water in the mid ‘80s when he competed on the World Championship Tour. Out of the water his gentle manner led to a highly successful business career. While a student at UCLA, he and classmate Sean Collins founded SurfLine. Christensen was inducted into the Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame in 2020. Photo by Mike Balzer
McIntire kept eye on the South Bay
Mike McIntire (right) with 2016 Hermosa Beach Walk of Fame Inductee John Lenninger, and 2023 inductee Steve Mangiagli at a 2015 book signing at Dive N’ Surf for 2003 inductee Bing Copeland. After completing his studies at the prestigious Brookings Institute of Photography, McIntire became a successful Hollywood studios photographer, and an omnipresent documenter of the South Bay surfing, including the Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame.