First surfboard shop plaque proposed for downtown MB 

by Kevin CodyIn 1950, the State of California created a new sales tax category, for surfboard sales. The first retail shop to be issued a sales tax license under the new category was Surfboards by Velzy. Dale Velzy had been shaping balsa boards under the Manhattan Beach pier until the city ordered him off the beach.“The shavings blew into town and street sweepers used to say ‘Where did this stuff come from?’” Velzy recalled during his 2003 induction into the Hermosa Beac