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May 23, 2021 · Sunday, May 23, 2021. Dewey Weber (1938-1993) Aloha and Welcome to the LEGENDARY SURFERS chapter on Dewey Weber, put together by Malcolm Gault-Williams in the late 1990s. Dewey Weber - Photo by Leroy Grannis.
- Best in The West
- Beginnings
- The Weber Triangle
- The Shortboard Revolution
- The Legacy
View Gallery Dewey Weber, arguably the finest small-wave surfer to come out of the South Bay, epitomized the lifestyle and attitude of the Golden Era of Surfing in California—a time when longboards didn’t exist (they were simply surfboards). Malibu was considered the best wave in the world, and the South Bay was the focal point of surfing in the co...
View Gallery Dewey was born in Denver, Colorado in 1938. At age 5, he and his family moved to Manhattan Beach, and four years later he started surfing. According to Gerald, Dewey the surfer “was born and bred on 22nd Street.” Right from the beginning, Dewey was a natural athlete. In high school, he was a three-time all-league wrestler, but his dimi...
“It became a partnership in every sense of the word,” says Caroline Weber, Dewey’s former wife. They met at a party in Hermosa Beach when she was 19 and he was 23. Together, they raised three children and built one of the largest surfboard manufacturers in California. “I didn’t know who he was,” she says. A close friend explained that he was a famo...
View Gallery Shea Weber, Dewey’s son and current owner of Surfboards by Dewey Weber in San Clemente, looks to the snow industry to explain the impact of the late-‘60s shortboard revolution on the surfboard industry. “It would be as if when snowboarding came about, the entire snow industry stopped selling and making skis, and everything went to snow...
View Gallery “There’s never been anyone quite like him in surfing,” says Jeff. Aside from being one of the first “hotdoggers,” Dewey built a surfboard empire, and his surfboard, The Performer, is still in production today. (Shea notes that the design hasn’t changed much at all.) Dewey’s true legacy is that he serves as a reminder of what the South ...
Feb 8, 2017 · Matt Warshaw's latest History Of Surfing chapter dropped a few days ago, and it's all about Malibu's "Little Man on Wheels," Dewey Weber. An expert hotdogger, and one of the '50s-generations' most talented surfers, Weber brought a showmanship dripping with ambition and self-critical intensity.
Jan 7, 2014 · You get a quick glance at it in the clip above, just after the opening title, as Weber deplanes, lip-forward, in Honolulu. A fleshy little badge of determination. How easy to imagine Dewey wearing the exact same face while winning the big yo-yo championship as a schoolboy, or the high school conference wrestling title, or whil...
Dewey was one of the first to adapt to the late '60s shortboard revolution, but it still took a heavy toll on his business. In 1993--the year Dewey died--Weber Surfboards closed its only remaining shop in Hermosa Beach.
Dewey Weber "2010 Surf Pioneer" Referred to as "Little Man on Wheels" for his hot-dogging style Flashy, bleach-blond surfer and board manufacturer of the late ‘50’s and ‘60’s, Dewey founded surf industry powerhouse Dewey Weber Surfboards, opening his first store in Venice in 1960.
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Dewey Weber. David Earl Weber (August 18, 1938, in Denver, Colorado – January 6, 1993), known as Dewey Weber, was an American surfer, a popular surfing film subject, and a successful surfboard manufacturing businessman.
