It was good to see Caroline, and Shea and Ann Weber and current team members have a chance to visit with some people who were on the team in the early 1960s at El Patio Cafe. Mike Tabeling, the Florida stand-out who helped establish Dewey Weber Surfboards on the east coast dropped in, as did Guy Motil, the acclaimed publisher/photographer, and Lonnie Argabright, Tim Tuthill, Frank Addleman, and John Bernards. A special treat was seeing Eve Fletcher who brought a photo album with her containing lots of pictures taken in 1956 on Oahu during Dewey's first trip to the Hawaiian Islands where he raised the bar on big wave performance surfing. Eve and Marge Calhoun were on the own surf safari to the islands confirming their place in history as early female pioneers. Eve, from Laguna Beach, still surfs San Onofre which is probably while she wears a permanent smile on her beautiful face. There was a buzz in the place about the new Dewey Weber Planer shape, which has just been released and team riders, and a few of us who've taken it out, are hugely impressed with it. Stay tuned. Mahalo. (Photo by Melody Derloshon)
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