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by Kevin Cody Five South Bay surfers, all mostly unknown by the local surfing community, were inducted into the Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame on Saturday, April 25. Four of the five moved away from the South Bay. Surfboard shaper Pat Rawson moved to Hawaii. Shaper Tyler Hatzikian moved to San Marcos. Lonnie Argabright […]
by Ed Solt In 1993, a Loyola Marymount film student named Jason Baffa took advantage of a South Bay rarity, afternoon offshore winds. North across the bay, Malibu was on fire. The fall sky was surreal, dirty red and hazy, but the waves were glassy and good. On an outside overhead left, one lone rider, […]
Women’s water programs, public art, historical preservation added to traditional surf contests by Tom Horton SBBC President In November 2026, The South Bay Boardrider’s Club (SBBC), a local non-profit, volunteer-based organization, will be celebrating its 17th anniversary. Much has evolved over these years. It seems we add a new program annually to serve the South […]
by Kevin Cody John Van Hamersveld taught a class called “Making Images” from 1975 to 1982 at the California Institute of the Arts. The class was broken up by semester into line drawing and painting. He quit, he wrote in the catalogue to his 2013 “Drawing Attention” exhibit at Cal State Northridge, “because the design […]
by Kevin Cody For a kid who lived just a few blocks from the bluff above Torrance Beach, Lonnie Argabright was late to surfing. His first ocean obsession was fishing. Beginning when he was 8, when he wasn’t in school, his dad would give him 50 cents for live bait and lunch, and drop him […]
by Mike Purpus Laurie Wislon’s introduction to surfing began in the mid ‘60s, pre-surf leashes, with shagging her older brother Jeff’s surfboard when he lost it in the surf and it washed ashore. She was 10 and was born into a water family that lived on 8th street, in Hermosa Beach, a block from the […]