Surf Shop Day: honor your local surf industry retailer
Festively celebrated each year since 2019, Surf Shop Day serves as a tribute to independent retailers that are the backbone of the surf industry.
Their impactful contributions, both past and present, have fostered and continue to sustain this thrilling sport and lifestyle.
According to surf historian Matt Warshaw, “California surfboard shaper Dale Velzy is sometimes credited as the inventor of the surf shop, opening his first Velzy Surfboards outlet in 1950 in Manhattan Beach, California, not long after the city closed the board making operation he ran from beneath the municipal pier.”
