Now Hiring: SHACC Executive Director
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 surf historians and collectors met at a...
RIP: Jim Gilloon
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...
The Road To Cape St. Francis
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,...
A Lifelong Friendship Is Born: Dick Metz and John Whitmore, Capetown, 1959
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....
Depression Era Beach Hangs With Dick Metz And Shirley Temple
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.