Ol’ Hawaii – early clips
A tour of touristic Hawaii, its beaches, volcanoes, and people from 1938, with some surfing at about 6min with interesting paddling action on the tourist laden outrigger – note the Duke-alike (is it him?).
The Duke, “the greatest surfer of them all” and ever the gent, interviewed by Bruce Brown, 1965
That’s an interesting interview!
My friends have done some work about the ways we remember Duke in our shared social and cultural memory, and the ways we represent those memories via statues, books, stamps etc. They talk about how Duke has come to be most remembered through his surfing, as opposed to his amazing feats as a world-record breaking and Olympic swimmer and as a Hawai’ian – in Australia and the white USA, anyway. It’s cool to hear him reflect on and compare these things himself.