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  2. Hobart Alter - Wikipedia

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    During a summer vacation in 1950 Alter began by building 9-foot balsawood surfboards for his friends. He asked his dad to pull the DeSoto out of the family's Laguna Beach, California, garage, and converted the garage into a woodshop for his hobby. [3] Initiated into surfing by Walter Hoffman, he started shaping balsa boards in the early 1950s.

  3. Free State of Galveston - Wikipedia

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    Galveston's Balinese Room was also the subject of a 1975 song by rock band ZZ Top. Galveston, The Musical! opened in 2003 at Galveston's Strand Theatre and in 2011 at the Hobby Center in Houston. The musical theater production centers on the arrival of the Maceo brothers and the empire they created during this period of the island's history.

  4. Kanvas by Katin - Wikipedia

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    The Katins kept making their surf trunks, selling them from the Surfside store and through a hemisphere-wide network of surf shop dealers. From the 1960s through the 1970s, many top surfers were loyal customers [3] and appeared in surf magazine ads wearing them. Walter Katin died in 1967, and Nancy continued to run the shop and the business in ...

  5. Galveston Island State Park - Wikipedia

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    The saga of protecting the land began in 1950. [6] Maco Stewart Jr., whose father founded Stewart Title Company, owned more than 2,000 acres on the island.In his will, he severed the mineral rights from the surface land rights and gave half of the surface and mineral rights to his wife, Virginia Stewart, and divided the other half between his sons from a former marriage, Wells and Maco III.

  6. Dale Velzy - Wikipedia

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    Dale Velzy (September 23, 1927 – May 26, 2005) was an American surfboard shaper, credited with being the world's first commercial shaper.He opened the first professional surf shop in Manhattan Beach, California, in 1950, personally hand fashioning the surfboards from wood or synthetic material.

  7. Ron Jon Surf Shop - Wikipedia

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    Ron Jon in Cocoa Beach. Ron Jon Surf Shop is a surfer-style retail store chain founded in 1959 in Ship Bottom, New Jersey by Ron DiMenna. [1] The store specializes in surfing and bodyboarding equipment, and their Cocoa Beach, Florida, store is currently the largest surf shop in the world. [2] Michele Goodwin is the current president. [3]

  8. Strand Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Strand Historic District, also known as the Strand District, in downtown Galveston, Texas , is a National Historic Landmark District of mainly Victorian era buildings that now house restaurants, antique stores, and curio shops. The area is a major tourist attraction for the island city and also plays host to two very popular seasonal ...

  9. Galveston Bay - Wikipedia

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    Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula are generally at the greatest risk. However, though the island and the peninsula provide some shielding, [42] [43] the bay shoreline still faces significant danger from storm surge. [44] Hurricane Ike, the most economically and environmentally destructive event on the bay since 1900, struck in 2008. [45]

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