Greg Browning gives thanks, audience thanks him back during 2024 Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame Ceremony
Greg Browning thanks 15 pages worth of friends and supporters for his Hermosa Surfer Walk of Fame induction. The audience urged him on by Kevin Cody The Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame induction ceremony at the Hermosa Pier on Saturday, April 27 was both celebratory and overwhelmingly poignant. The inductees were David Nuuhiwa, Mike Balzer and Greg Browning. Browning was diagnosed a year ago this month with ALS. Nuuhiwa was the first to be inducted. The Hawaiian native has the bearing and athleticism of Duke Kahanamoku. He is arguably the greatest longboarder of all time. Mike Balzer was the second inductee. He follows in the lineage of Hermosa Beach surf photographers Doc Ball, who documented the kookbox surfers of the 1940s and 1950s, and Leroy Grannis, whose longboard photos of the Golden Era of Surfing in the 1950s and 1960s are now a Taschen coffee table book. Balzer photographed the shortboard revolution of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. His camera board photo of Rob Machado in the barrel on a board airbrushed with an image of Jimi Hendrix is the most famous cover ever of a surfing magazine. He also shot Browning’s first surf magazine cover. Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame…
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