The story goes that on June 25, 1916, the day Lewis Earl Swarts was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his father, an oil industry worker, was reading a Hopalong Cassidy novel. The “Hoppy” nickname he gave his newborn son stuck, even after the family left Oklahoma to move to California, settling in Redondo Beach. Hoppy becameContinue reading “South Bay surfing pioneer Hoppy Swarts had a profound impact on the sport’s development”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
