Discover how suring got its start on the North Coast
Husband-and-wife authors to share stories, sign books at Cleanline Surf Shop
SEASIDE — Cleanline Surf
Shop will host a book sign-
ing eYent ³2regon Sur¿ng
North Coast.” Authors Scott
and Sandy Blackman will be
available from 1 to 3 p.m.
Sunday, March 13 to auto-
graph their books and share
sur¿ng stories and memora-
bilia with sur¿ng enthusiasts.
Cleanline Surf Shop is locat-
ed at 60 N Roosevelt Drive.
The book, published by
Arcadia Publishing, coves
the history of the local North
Coast surfing culture, which
began in Portland, Seaside,
Cannon Beach and Pacific
City in the 1960s.
Seaside teens discovered
surfing in the summer of
1962 when they met San Di-
ego, California, surfer Dana
Williams. Stationed with the
Navy at Tongue Point near
Astoria, Williams recalls,
“In 1961, I was surfing
Fort Stevens, South Jetty,
both sides and sandbars. In
1963 we were part of Hop-
py Swartz’s USSA (United
States Surfing Association)
and the third club to form.”
1963
Seaside
High
School classmates and char-
ter Seaside Surfing Associa-
tion members Mark Hansen,
Jerry Alto and Tibby Utter
credit Williams with start-
ing surfing around Seaside.
More locals joined the SSA
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Submitted photo courtesy of Jerry Alto
Submitted photo courtesy of Mark Hansen
Dallas Cook is featured on this Seaside
postcard, surfing the Cove.
A 1963 newspaper article from the Seaside Signal features members of the Seaside Surf-
ing Association. Pictured are, from left, Jerry Alto, President Dana Williams, John Alto,
George Nelson, Tibby Utter and Mark Hansen. Missing charter members not in photograph
are Joe Camberg, Mike Zalk, Ed Hendrickson, Norm Wilcox, John Spence and Bill Forness.
Seaside High School classmates and charter Seaside Surfing Association members, from
left, Mark Hansen, Tibby Utter and Jerry Alto gather for a group picture.
throughout the decade until
the club disbanded in the
late 1960s.
Utter remembers, “We
spent time at Dana’s Seaside
house talking about surfing,
girls, looking at Surf Maga-
zines and drinking wine.”
Alto remembers, “Dana
was the key: He had a surf-
board and was from San Di-
ego.”
Seaside High School stu-
dent and SSA member Dallas
Cook recalls, “I was living
in Gearhart when I borrowed
a Hawaiian Olo board from
the Gearhart Hotel. I used
it for a summer until Wally
Pashal took it out and broke
it. I was 16 in 1963 when
George Daggatt, Needham
Ward and myself (ordered)
longboards that were deliv-
ered by train. They were too
big for the truck freight.”
Personal
recollections
by Oregon’s North Coast
pioneer surfers and their
vintage photographs are fea-
tured in the book.
The Blackmans have
lived their entire lives along
the Oregon Coast. Scott, a
Submitted photo courtesy of Dennis Smith
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pioneer surfer, has been pho-
tographing the evolving surf
culture for 50 years. Sandy
is a successful write and sto-
ryteller. Together, the Black-
mans have become the his-
torians of Oregon surfing’s
pioneer years. Their first
book, “Oregon Surfing Cen-
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book page “Oregon Surfing:
Past and Present” document
the early history of the sport
in the state.
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