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In the 1960’s, Dewey Weber influenced both surfboard design and the surfing lifestyle that still has influence to this day. Dewey quickly garnered the reputation of being one of surfing’s top businessmen and soon he was recognized as the largest and most innovative surfboard manufacturer in the entire surfing industry. During that span, Weber contributed many surfboard design and manufacturing innovations and opened up surfing’s reach by introducing skateboard and apparel line to his surfboard business. Currently, Dewey Weber is focused on making top notch custom surfboards which are all hand made in the U.S. All Dewey Weber surfboards are manufactured in Southern California and glassing is done by Kaysen Surf Designs. Being that the company has always embraced change and innovation, it is no surprise that the company utilizes a state of the art shaping machine and has experimented with epoxy resin over the past few years. The company specializes in high quality retro and traditional longboard shapes and Dewey Weber’s San Clemente Surf Shop provides surfers with a wide variety of quality stock boards in their showroom. If you aren’t able to find exactly what you’re looking for, the Weber shaping team can design a board to your exact specifications. 8 Comments »Karin, on July 1, 2007 @ 11:36 am |I have a 1960’s Dewey Weber and am looking to sell. Any ideas on how to find out the model # and then a good selling price? Dan Edgerton, on August 4, 2007 @ 7:09 am |I was on the Dewey Skateboard Team. We performed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for the opening of Surf Films in the day. We went to High Schools and performed. We competing one Summer in 1963 on a Television Show Called Surfs Up and we competed against Hobie and other teams. We won 2nd place overall.I did a high jump trick of 3′8′’ which was tauted to be the world record at the time. Several members on our team had the first huge skateboard with eight sets of wheels. I had my own fiberglass custom board made for me which I still have. I also had my own special surfboard designed and I was part of a Surf Club called TOC that surfed the La Ballona Creek and Manhattan Beach area. I won my High School Surf Contes (Culver City). I have pictures to show. I have pictures of my Dewey Weber Skateboard Team shirt and of me doing headstands and handstands. Anybody interesting in seeing or learning more. E-mail me! kevin eide, on March 28, 2008 @ 10:26 pm |i think i remember you. my brother kenny and i were on the weber surf team. send me a note and say hi. kevin, on August 14, 2008 @ 11:26 am |kevin eide this is kevin ryan from the old leucadia days. how are you? drop me a line and tell me what you’ve been doing ellen fell, on September 26, 2008 @ 7:23 pm |kevin eide, its me ellen, email me, i lost your address and sheila is not technical! all is well! Marty Bussey, on October 20, 2008 @ 5:05 am |Hi guys, just a note having run into this site. Only met (saw?) Dewey once in his del Rey shop. He didn’t seem to have much time for a fat kid from El Segundo, but he had this door sign (”Yes, we’re closed” and on the reverse “Sorry, we’re open!”)which, at the time, seemed very cool! My older brothers spent more time down there in the early 60’s and took up surfing with neighbor Dean Fermin. MIKE, on November 3, 2008 @ 10:29 am |BACK IN 1963/1964 I RODE A DEWEY WEBER LONG BOARD. NOTHING MORE STABLE TO RIDE AT THE REDONDO BEACH BREAKWATER DURING THE LARGE WINTER BREAK. TO BE ABLE TO GO FROM TOP TO BOTTOM THEN UP TO THE NOSE AND HANG AROUND FOR AWHILE, WELL THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT. I HAVE SURFED NOW FOR SOME 50 YEARS OF MY LIFE AND I HAVE OWNED BOARDS BY JACOBS AND BING AS WELL, BUT MY WEBER WAS MY FAVORITE. I REMEBER WHEN DEWEY’S SURF SHOP WAS ON PCH IN HERMOSA BEACH WHERE I USED TO HANG OUT. Leave a commentRSS feed for these comments. | TrackBack URI |
BeachLocal, on May 18, 2007 @ 5:27 am |
Nice blog entry about Deweys. I might post a link to it in my eSanClemente.com blog. Perhaps you can blog about eSanClemente if you like it? Perhaps as a resource to surfing in SC.
Cheers.