In Celebration of Donald Takayama: Part two (more unseen photos of DT and other surf legends) [PHOTOS]
[scrollGallery id=522] Left to Right: Donald Takayama, David Nuuhiwa, Rabbit Kekai, Phil Edwards, and Joey Lombardo. Photo courtesy of Joey Lombardo Santa Donald Donald laughed when he saw my May Company surfboard. Then he gave me a brand new 9-foot Scholl by Joe Lombardo In 1964, when I was 14 years old I would bicycle from Redondo south along PCH toHarborCityto a little known surf shop named Scholl Surfboards, managed by the infamous Walt Phillips. I would ride there three to four times a week to hang out with Donald, who started shaping there, and Harpo who did the glassing for Scholl, and who resides in Hermosa Beach to this day. Left to right: Kekai, Lombardo, Linda Benson, unknown, Takayama. Photo courtesy of Lombardo. That year, as a Christmas present, my dad bought me a pop-out from May Company. I was so embarrassed by the board that I would take it down the beach where no one could see me. One day, I glassed a Hap Jacobs Diamond sticker over the May Company logo with a huge unfinished clump of resin. Donald laughed when he saw it. Then he offered to let me trade in that piece of crap for a new, light blue 9-foot Scholl. It was like the biggest thing in my life. I finally…
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