Surfing Virginia Beach and the Outer Banks

by Tony Lillis

Overview

Virginia Beach and the Outer Banks share an incredibly rich surfing history. Virginia Beach is home to major surfing institutions so iconic and long lasting they are simply referred to as "ECSC," "WRV" and "17th Street." Of course, the Outer Banks has the consistent waves. The barrels. The lighthouse. Its beaches have been the setting for iconic moments in the history of the Eastern Surfing Association. Local surfing historian Tony Lillis chronicles the rich history of surfing along Virginia Beach and the Outer Banks from the early twentieth century, when world travelers brought home tales of Hawaiian surfing, through the heyday of the 1960s and into the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439670163
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	06/15/2020
Series:	Sports
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Tony Lillis started skateboarding and surfing as a teenager in the mid-1970s. He earned a bachelors in history at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, from which he made frequent jaunts to Virginia Beach before and after class, as well as to the Outer Banks as often as possible. After graduation, he worked in book publishing for thirty years as an editor, marketing director and project manager for the Donning Company/Publishers, Antique Trader Books and Harris Connect. For many years, he was a resident of Virginia Beach, and he now resides in Norfolk.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction 11

1 1900-1960: From Duke to Gidget 13

2 The Early 1960s: Surf's Up 43

3 The '60s: The Cult of Surf Worship 76

4 The 1970s and 1980s: From Soul Surfer to Rip and Slash 96

5 1990-2020: Closing Out 136

Selected Bibliography 153

Index 155

About the Author 160