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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: Surfin' 1800s USA
Description: The boys who brought surfing to California were Hawaiian princes Jonah KÅ«hiÅ KalanianaÊ»ole, David KawÄnanakoa, and Edward KeliÊ»iahonui, who took a break from military school on 19th July, 1885, to surf the waves at Santa Cruz. The royal trio fashioned surfboards out of redwood and surfed at the San Lorenzo river mouth, demonstrating the centuries-old Polynesian tradition to stunned and delighted beachgoers.In this episode, Arion, Olly and Rebecca explain why it took the Second World War for boardsports to really take off in the region; consider whether the brothersâ bespoke...