Historic Surfing Photographs
DESOTO BROWN is the first to admit he's not actually the surfing type himself. He's more of an indoor, controlled-environment kind of guy. But growing up in Hawaii, the call of the waves was irresistible. Even a dryfoot like Brown managed to get his toes wet on occasion, and once you caught a bitchin' ride, you never quite forgot the feeling.
But that was high school in the '60s, this is now, and Brown -- an archivist at Bishop Museum and one-man fount of Hawaii pop-culture ephemera -- has rooted around in the museum's massive photo collection and assembled the aptly titled photo book "Surfing -- Historic Images from Bishop Museum's Archives."
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