LeRoy Grannis fell in love with the ocean and surfing at a very young age, and at a time when the sport was also at a very young age. He was born at home, blocks from the ocean in Hermosa Beach on Aug. 12th,1917. The family made the most of living near the beach. Grannis’Continue reading “Trailblazer LeRoy Grannis set high standards for surf photography”
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South Bay surfing pioneer Hoppy Swarts had a profound impact on the sport’s development
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”
