Corky Carroll: Let’s take a look back at how surfing has changed over the decades

The first big surfing event in California during this period was the West Coast Surfing Championship held at the Huntington Beach Pier in 1959. This grew into the United States Championship and then, eventually, into the U.S. Open of Surfing. The Makaha International in Hawaii already was going before that. These were the beginnings of what has ...