Coffee Table Book - California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties Boot Lace Do not use abrasive cleansers

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Coffee Table Book - California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties Boot Lace Do not use abrasive cleansersThe story told by the photographs in California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties takes place against the larger backdrop of postwar America: Truman and Eisenhower, the Korean War, the Cold War and the Red Scare. Young people were embracing new symbols of non conformity: Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando and James Dean. All along the California coast, surfing became popular as heavy balsawood boards were replaced with lightweight ones