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BILLY GRAHAM was one of the original rebels that change the whole Surf culture in the late ’50s and helped coined the phrase, Surf Nazi. As legendary surfers Greg Koll and Fred Van Dyke said,” the most radical group of people I have ever meant. They were like wild animals.” One of the original and life time member of WindanSea Surf Club, he is probably the only person that would stand up to Butch Van Artsdalen and one of the toughest people at WindanSea. Nobody messed with Billy.

MELINDA MERRYWEATHER was a formal model, and Legendary surfer Mike Hynson’s ex wife. She was the art director for Jimi Hendrix movie, Rainbow Bridge and Jimi’s song Scorpio Women was about her. She is one of the founding members of Friends of Windansea (friendsofwindansea.org), a La Jolla Organization whose sole passion and goal is to preserve the natural environment of WindanSea. She was the ramrodder for the campaign of why there are no bathrooms at WindanSea (Ban the Can) and helped make the Shack a Historical Landmark. Friends of WindanSea is totally responsible for what you see at WindanSea today. They maintain the shack, help clean the beach, built the parking lot and rebuilt the stairs. Her big push is beach and view accessibility, and for years has been campaigning that La Jolla should be designated as its own incorporated city.

CHUCK HASLEY (RIP) was once a school teacher, then he along with Mike Hynson formed the famous WindanSea Surf club with a bunch of unknowns at the time. He launched the surfing careers of people like Hobie Alter, Del Cannon, Mickey Dora, Phil Edwards, Joyce Hoffman, Margo Godfrey, Mickey Munoz and Donald Takayama. In the ’60s they put La Jolla on the map wining many major surf contests .

MIKE DIFFENDERFER (RIP) was known off Kaua’i as a world-class surfboard shaper, as the man who named the Banzai Pipeline and as one of the first modern-day surfers to ride the huge waves of Waimea Bay on Oahu’s North Shore back in the 1950s. He is known as “the Michaelangelo” of surfboard shapers.

MING C. LOWE is an self-taught famous American painter of large-scale contemporary works on canvas and a fine art photographer. She emerged from the most embryonic 1960s rock ‘n’ roll scenes to become a unique voice in the Southern California desert. Her work attracted and served as a source of inspiration for the likes of Eric Burdon of the Animals, Paul Butterfield, Sterling Morrison of the Velvet Underground, American Indian guitar legend Jesse Ed Davis and James Gurley of Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Lowe was a shy 15½-year-old red head with a passion for more cerebral jazz, folk and blues. She met a group of guys from Windansea Beach and joined them in the youth culture they created around surfing and beer bashes. She first worked at Hobie Surfboard Shop in PB for Chuck Hasley and answered their fan mail, also participated in the radical group, the Mac Meda Destruction Company – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_C._Lowe