Learning to surf in the sixties.Grajagan, Java, 1979. Courtesy of Mark CordesiusFor my eleventh birthday, my father took me to the Dave Sweet Surfboards shop on Olympic Boulevard, in Santa Monica. From the rack of used boards, I chose a solid, sunbrowned 9'0" with blue-green paneled rails and a fin built with at least eight... <a href="Read">http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/07/24/california-street/">Read More</a> <span class="link">»</span>