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Malibu (geographical)
1939 Tom Blake, Reference Garry Lynch : Tom Blake in Surfer magazine Vol 30 No. 11 Nov. 1989

Kit Horn, Bob Simmons and Buzzy Trent.
Solid Laminates, Malibu, circa 1941 - 1944.
Surfer Magazine
March 1981 Volume 22, Number 3, page 36
The photograph is uncredited.

Malibu, circa 1947.
Photograph : Joe Quigg
Surfer July 1976
Volume17 Number 2 Page 63.

Bob Simmons, Malibu, circa 1947.
Surfer July 1976 Volume17 Number 2 Page 46
Les Williams Archives

Simmons' Riders : Dave Sweet & Single Fin and Buzzy Trent & Twin Fin,
Malibu, circa 1949.
Photograph : Joe Quigg
Surfer July 1976 Volume17 Number 2 Page 46
Les Williams Archives
Note : This situation would be reproduced in 1976 at Off The Wall
by Mark Richards (Twin) and Shaun Tomson (Single).

Joe Quigg and Bob Simmons, Malibu circa 1950.
Stern and Cleary, page 20.

Leslie Williams, and Quigg Board
Malibu, circa 1952.
Photograph : Joe Quigg ?
Surfer July 1976 Volume17 Number 2 Page 51
Les Williams Archives

Note caption text below.

" Credited by Joe Quigg as 'being the first surfer in either california or Hawaii to develop the
radical, slashing style of high performance surfing' ... Comments Williams, 'I rode Quigg boards
that he shaped for girls. They were the only ones short and light enough for hot-dogging ' ".

Actor Peter Lawford and other Malibu Surfers,
The Pit , Malibu, circa 1953.
Lueras, Page 115.
Ricky Grigg Collection.
Lawford brought a fibreglassed board to Australia in 1950, while on location to shootKangaroo.