yard and neighborhood, part 11...
Jul. 24th, 2004 07:38 pmOrange County's other Duke...

Native Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku was an Olympic swimming champion and sometime Hollywood actor who moved to Huntington Beach and pretty much got surfing started here. There is bust of him as an older man in the International Museum of Surfing a few blocks away. He passed away in 1968.


Native Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku was an Olympic swimming champion and sometime Hollywood actor who moved to Huntington Beach and pretty much got surfing started here. There is bust of him as an older man in the International Museum of Surfing a few blocks away. He passed away in 1968.