Many surf movie posters and handbills are highly sought after by many collectors and non-collectors alike. You'll find them complementing many surfboard collections, as a decor in restaurants, lawyer's and doctor's offices, surf shops and surf museums and just about anywhere a surfer might live or do business.
To advertise and promote their movies, they created surf film posters and plastered them in school hallways, community centers, telephone poles and near auditoriums where they would show their movies. Most of these posters originated in the 1950's and 1960's when early surfer film makers traveled the earth to capture the pure essence of early surfing.
Of course, young surfers would find these wonderful posters of surfing art, remove them from wherever they found them and often tacked them up in their room or add them to their scrapbook.
Then of course, there are the surfboards themselves. From the old redwood planks from the early 20th century, to the laminated wood from the 1930's and 1940's, Tom Blake style hollow construction types, 1950's balsa, 1960's long boards and the 1970's short boards made from fiberglass and foam
Collecting vintage surfboards has become hugely popular for surfers and non-surfers alike. Old wood planks or 1960' 1970's surfboards are now commonly used as center pieces for decor in places as diverse as Japan, South America, Australia and Europe.
Being connected to a body of water is not a prerequisite to collecting surfing memorabilia. These days you can find old surfboards in restaurants, every kind of variety shops, retail stores, museums and of course in family homes worldwide.
One of the best known original Hawaiian surfers is Duke [Paoa] Kahanmoku. He was born in 1890 and was named after his father, who according to legend, was named for the Duke of Edinburgh, who visited Hawaii in 1869.
He was the oldest of six brothers, all aquatic athletes, who were born and raised near the beach at Waikiki. He was a natural athlete, but it's when he broke his first, of many, swimming records in the Honolulu harbor, that America recognized this talented man, who would later represent the United States, winning Olympic gold.
Duke was the driving force behind many firsts in water sports.He not only popularized swimming, but introduced surfing to the world. He was a natural teacher and loved to teach surfing to anyone who wanted to learn.
At the age of 22, he won his first gold medals. He competed in the Olympics until he was 42,with qualifying times as good as or better than those of his younger days, for 21 years he was an accomplished Olympic athlete.
Already a legend in Hawaii and the mainland, he gravitated toward Hollywood in1925 and spent 8 years as an actor there.
Returning to Oahu in 1934, he became sheriff of the city and county of Honolulu and also an unofficial ambassador of good will for Hawaii.
For the quarter century, he was re-elected regularly to the post which he held until early 1961, when the position was abolished under the new city charter. He was made the official greeter for the city and county, a position he held until his death on January 22,1968.
Duke[Paoa] Kahanamoku did more in the 20th century to make Hawaii known among the world than perhaps anyone else. Pure Hawaiian and descendant of Ali'i[royalty]he is a proud example of the Hawaiian race.
We will always love, honor and remember
'The Duke".
Who best symbolizes the care-free lifestyle of Hawaii than our captivating Hawaiian Hula Girl, who embodies every man's fascination and every woman's envy. The hula girl is charming and alluring and always carries within her the spirit of "Aloha".
The hula girl sums up the perfect image of what Hawaii has to offer with her welcoming smile and easy fluid movements.
One of the most popular Hawaiian collectibles is the Hula Doll. Hula Dolls come in a variety of shapes and sizes. In the 1920's and 1930's some of the earliest hula dolls were made from Bisque or Redware, A clay material lacking any glaze. Slightly later chalk-ware hula dolls were carnival novelties, thy had hand painted hair, leis and skirts. In the 1940's and 1950's some of Hawaii's best artists, like DeLee, Julene and Hakata, took to creating some of the finest Hawaiian Hula Dolls of the time. These are still some of the most sought after Hula Dolls by collectors today.
The ever popular Hula Girl nodder was created in the 1940's through the 1960's, and are still some of the most popular Hula Girl Dolls.
Large productions of nodders were created to supply the market of visiting service men during WWII and later the hordes of visiting tourists eager to bring a piece of Hawaiiana home with them.
No matter what style, shape or persona the hula girl took on, she remained a stable attractive figure throughout the years to come. Her commercial exploitation never swayed from her good-natured acceptance as Hawaii's instantly recognizable image. Throughout her metamorphosis, she has remained sparkling and welcome, which is, after all, her main function.
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