Remembering the history of SURFER magazine

I woke up this morning to the sad news that SURFER Magazine was shutting down after an amazing 60 years in business.
Another one of those things that I had thought was “forever,” until it wasn’t.  Way too many of those things these days and I don’t like it.  This is coming from a dude who has gone far beyond his expiration date and is only showing faint signs of decay and premature decomposition.
I grew up with SURFER magazine.
When the first issue came out in 1