They like us, they really like us!
Surfers, riding a rollercoaster of relevancy, felt very low earlier today when it was revealed that the world’s first wave tank, Surf Snowdonia in northern Wales, had shuttered forever. This following Quiksilver, Billabong and RVCA’s sale to a glue factory, has led to shaky knees, ominous feelings that nobody cares about our kind.
But then, at our low point, the track shoots up, skyward, as it was just announced that the California Surf Museum, located in Oceanside, California beat out the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Babe Ruth’s Birthplace in Baltimore and even the “Field of Dreams” movie site, made famous by Kevin Costner who is currently embroiled in a nasty divorce, to land the number two spot on the “10 Best Attractions for Sports Fans” in the United States of America.
They like us.
They really like us.
California Surf Museum President, Jim Kempton, declared, “When we received a nomination from a panel of expert judges seeking a consensus on the nation’s 10 best attractions for sports fans, we were flattered to have made the cut. People might not immediately think of surfing as a major sport, but nearly three million Americans are dedicated to it as a way of life that numbers an estimated 23 million participants worldwide. Add to this a fan base of people who don’t surf but love and appreciate the spectacle, sport, tradition, history, and culture of surfing, then our showing begins to make perfect sense.”
The museum, which opened in 1986, features a permanent collection of notable surfboards, Kelly Slater’s last piece of hair, Ritchie Collins Webz, Erik Logan’s Filipe Toledo chest shirt, 1989 World Champion Martin Potter (in formaldehyde), Gerry Lopez’s environmental conscience (also in formaldehyde), a giant empty hole representing Filipe Toledo’s courage and a new exhibit which shows the connection between science and the evolution of modern surfing.
It is open from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. most days with an unbelievably low admission cost of $7.
A wonder, frankly, that it was not voted number one. That place went to Boise State University’s blue football field.
Rollercoaster begins decent again.
A Blue football field…..? Really it reminds us of the ocean we all need and want
tell me that is NOT photo-shopped…
surveyed by the yokos
Rollercoaster wreck
https://twitter.com/TreyWal…
I’m not paying $7 unless there’s a Matt Johnson exhibit!
Would lol if kilgores yater spoon was there.
Some surfers I knew from Bolinas were on a surf trip in Baja and camped next to Jan Michael Vincent in the early eighties. He let all of them fuck his girlfriend while he watched.
after a full day of fun surf, the friends exit the water and Jan says:
https://pleated-jeans.com/w…
There were four guys, one of them came in his shorts and was so bummed he started crying
Oh hey I went last week!
Here’s a photo I took of Flippy’s lack of courage. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
How about that horn-dog Dick Metz’s heritage museum or whatever the fuck it’s called?
yep. they sell sunglasses. none are rose-colored. I like Dick.
I went to that the last time I was in LA. It’s pretty shit!
that pic of Richie is one of my all time favourites.
Curatamo Ahrendt
Maybe you could have amuseum of all the young surfers who have been fucked over by the industry and hung out to dry afterwards?
it’s called the commentariat
Other exhibits include:
– the sofa lounge Occy gained 40 pounds lying on
– A chronological catalogue of all the times surf media prompted homophobic violence
-an artwork made using bottletops opened by the Mick Fanning bottle opener sandle
– Taj Burrows’ panties collection, with an audio narration describing the owner of each piece by the great man himself
– The first crack pipe ever used at Mavericks
Connor’s Secret Turn is in the storage shed, mothballed
grunion run free>
Schapele’s bodyboard?
do grunion’s still run?
Peter McCabe’s hollow fin prototype
breeghnougff
s fin
Wait til ya see the Peter Drouyn exhibit!
There is some irony in his name being Peter
I like us best at our low points!
there’s no points low enough~