Sterling Search Inc. has been exclusively retained to recruit for the new Executive Director for Surfing Heritage and Culture Center (SHACC). History In the mid-1990s founders Dick Metz and Spencer Croul’s worlds combined. Both...

After a life very well lived, Dana Point icon Jim Gilloon has gracefully kicked out. A friendly, popular character, he was a fixture in Dana Point’s lineups in the golden era before the harbor was built and so much more. For a lot of area surfers Gilloon sold them...

As told by SHACC founder Dick Metz to author Ben Marcus. Read more here. John [Whitmore] said that he’d get me a ride up the coast, that he knew a couple of salesmen who had to go up there, that I should just sit tight and they’ll get me a ride eventually. So I did,...

As told by Dick Metz to Ben Marcus: When we got to Cape Town—a big port city in a harbor—he said, “Well I’m going to the Groote Schuur Hospital to see my mom. Where do you want out?” I could see the ocean up ahead, so I told him just to let me out at the next corner....

SHACC Founder Dick Metz looks back on a golden era in Laguna Beach during the 1930s when Hollywood stars were just normal people and Shirley Temple was a good friend.

In 1902, experienced lumberman and mill operator George Emerson began construction of a new sawmill south of the Quinault Indian reservation, which is just south of the vast Olympic National Park and National Forest, on the west coast of the state of Washington....

Back in the late ‘60s and throughout most of the ’70s, three young women helped shape the future of women’s pro surfing, and all three grew up within eight miles of each other in southern New Jersey. It began with phenom Barbie Belyea in Ocean City. Her contest...

Last November SHACC co-founder and all around legendary human Dick Metz sat down for a chat on The Longboardarian Podcast to talk story and share the immense history he’s been fortunate enough to be part of throughout his 90-plus years on this blue planet. So, if you’re interested in the way it was, spend an hour listening to the man that lived it all.

Thanks to the graciousness of our dear friends Steve and Debbee Pezman, Surfer Magazine founder John Severson’s desk will have a permanent home at SHACC.