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May 23, 2021 · Gone Fishing, 1970s. The Bottle. Dewey Weber was born David Earl Weber on August 18, 1938 in Denver, Colorado. He went on to become one of the greats in surfing in the 1950s and a great in the surfboard manufacturing world in the 1960s. His stardom, however, began at an early age.
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.
- 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 ...
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.
Jan 7, 2014 · The Dewey Weber story rests on that jutting sunburned lower lip of his. 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.
Flashy bleach-blond surfer and boardmaker of the late '50s and '60s from Hermosa Beach, California; a hotdogging icon; founder and owner of surf industry powerhouse Weber Surfboards.
Feb 6, 2017 · Dewey Weber is remembered and loved, and rightly so, as surfing's original high-performance boy wonder, the hotdogging messiah. But what really fascinates me about Weber is the crazy drive and ambition.
