It's been a long, long time since I did surf. Too old and heavy to push the body up in time to avoid disaster. Bought my first board from Dewey Weber about 1959. It was a 9'6" Velzy jet tail. The shop was in Venice (Dog Town) where I grew up.The first few years the local break was off Pacific Ocean Park pier, then Bay St in Santa Monica. Always jaunts to other breaks such as Malibu, Topanga, Secus, Rincon, Mexico, Trestles, and points in between. When Dewey opened his own shop I had to have one of his boards, an 8'10" pig. I eventually got a 9'6" 6" square tail Jacobs. Became good friends with Ernie Tanaka who built boards in the 60's so had to have one of his if we were going to ride together. Ernie shaped for Con surfboards for years before he opened his own shop and later after our lives went in different directions he moved back to The islands and built boards there. I moved to the mountains in 1978 and, sadly lost track of most of my old friends. I get together with a couple of the old crew when I go to L.A. Lots of good memories of good times and good friends.