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So the board that we're going to look at is right over here that I'm going to take you over

to, but it's from the American Ladder Company, the Los Angeles Ladder Company we'll see

in a moment.

And maybe...

I'm at the California Surf Museum in Oceanside with Jim Kempton.

He's the museum president.

This is a small museum stuffed literally to the rafters with surfboards.

The collection includes the 110-pound redwood planks that were used in the early days

by people like Mickey Doris Stepdad, Guard Chapen, the fiberglass and foam longboards that

became popular after World War II, and the tiny, light, performance shortboards many

pros use today.

They even have the surfboard that professional surfer Bethany Hamilton was riding when she

lost her arm to a shark attack when she was 13.

It has a bite out of it.

But right now, I'm looking at one of the first commercially manufactured and mass-produced

surfboards in America, which came out in the 1930s.

It's a thing of beauty, varnished redwood with a balsa wood stringer.

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