by Kevin CodyMike Purpus wasn’t happy when surf shop owner Gene Cidello handed him the new Beach Boys album, “Surfer Girl,” in September 1963. The now iconic album cover showed the band from Hawthorne High barefoot in the surfline, wearing matching blue Pendletons and khaki pants. Under their arms was an unwaxed 9-foot surfboard with a one-inch redwood stringer bordered by blue panels that matched their Pendletons. The 15-year-old Purpus had waited all summer for a new board f
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