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California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties

By Steve Pezman (Text by), Steve Roper (Text by), Yvon Chouinard (Text by)
Hardcover
$45.00
By Steve Pezman (Text by), Steve Roper (Text by), Yvon Chouinard (Text by)
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The story told by the photographs in California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties takes place against the larger backdrop of postwar America: Truman and Eisenhower, the Korean War, the Cold War and the Red Scare. Young people were embracing new symbols of non-conformity: Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando and James Dean. All along the California coast, surfing became popular as heavy balsawood boards were replaced with lightweight ones crafted from polyurethane foam, fiberglass an...

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