Swell Pix

the 1964 U.S. Surfing Championships                                     Tom Keck

"I grew up on the beach surfing. I started selling photos of my friends out of my garage for a dollar apiece," explains Steve Wilkings, who grew up in Hermosa. "For a little kid, that was pretty neat." And for an adult, what's pretty neat is being able to digitize, edit, and catalog thousands of these and other photographs that tell the story of surfing, primarily in Southern California. Wilkings is doing just that at the Surfing Heritage and Culture Center in San Clemente, where he is the archivist (story, link to slideshow): http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-surf-photos-20130616,0,1679754.story