Surfing
by Kevin Cody Surfer’s Journal publisher Steve Pezman once compared the Hap Jacobs surf shop of the late ‘60s to the Notre Dame Cathedral because of the Jacobs’ shrine-like display of his meticulously crafted surfboards. Jacobs closed his shop, at 422 Pacific Coast Highway in Hermosa Beach, in 1971. He passed away in December 2021, at age 91. But the fabled 422 address is again a shrine, at least in part, to Jacobs surfboards. The former surf shop was recently…
