It’s a funeral. That’s obvious. Beyond that, I don’t know anything about this occasion. The photos were among my dad’s pictures and papers from the period around 1948. The top photo shows a group gathered around what appears to be a funeral wreath, all wearing Waikiki Surf Club and swim trunks. The middle photo is [...]
[Update (December 8, 2010): Well, sometimes I'm just plain wrong. Today I found two columns by Honolulu Advertiser Sports Editor Red McQueen that provide the real story behind these photos. Turns out that the photos are actually from May 1959 and were not from the 1953 body surfing event as I originally believed. I made [...]
