Before the Beach Boys, before Frankie and Annette, there was Gidget, the spunky girl surfer who sparked a national obsession with beach culture. But Gidget was neither Sandra Dee, who played her in ...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. — Terry Tracy, who as an easygoing, fun-loving surfer helped inspired the “Gidget” movies and television series and helped make surfing an international sport — in the process ...

It was an overcast morning by the Sunset Cliff stairs when Michael Curtis and I started to chat. Curtis has been surfing since 1954. “I was probably six when I started. When they came out with the ...

In 1980, when San Pedro resident Brian Gillogly interviewed Kathy Kohner Zuckerman, he never imagined the long weekends and road trips he would spend with her 20 years later. Those subsequent hours ...

The Malibu Wall dates back to 1929. It was erected on a coastal strip just north of Los Angeles as part of the perimeter of the Adamson House. The estate—built for the daughter of Malibu’s last owner, ...

LOS ANGELES – James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday at 88. Darren died in his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Darren in 1983 - ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty James Darren, who has died aged 88, was a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Darren, a teen idol who helped ignite the 1960s surfing craze as a charismatic beach boy paired off with Sandra Dee in the hit film “Gidget,” died Monday at 88. Darren died in ...

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