Surfing has become popular throughout the 20th century and remains so today. The traditional view of a surfer is a stocky, square jaw, blond men - made popular by movies, television and commercial. The truth is different.
Although the surf was a male-dominated sport, women are adventurous surfers can see all the way back to the times of the Polynesian Queens. Two notable "surfer girls were Eva Fletcher and anona Napolean. Eva Fletcher was born in California an animator for Walt Disney and anona Napolean was the daughter of a respected family of Hawaiian surf. The two pioneers in the sport for the modern woman, winning surf competitions up and down the California coast at the end of the 50s and the 60s.
Hollywood was quick to be on the scene and the 1959 movie "Gidget," surfing was thrown away into the mainstream, never to return to its humble beginnings ritual. "Gidget" inspired a lot of "Beach Blanket Bingo" movies that brought surfing to a new generation of adolescents and inspiring a new genre of "surf music" that accompanied the films and The Beach Boys more famous in that Elvis 60.
Sports spread in all media and Surfing Magazine was born in the 1960s by famed surf photographer, Leroy Grannis. After that, other publications that came out more about the sport, teams and stars of the surfing scene. John Severson, conducted a photographer and filmmaker, created Surfer Magazine, originally called "The Surfer." These publications to advertising, professional surfing, surf culture and publicity to the now very popular sport.
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