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Joe Donnelly

  • Joe Donnelly
    31.6

    Fetched Up in Amber

    For Proto-Los Angeles surf star Mike Purpus, today feels a hell of a lot like 1974.

    By Joe Donnelly
  • Joe Donnelly
    27.3

    The Confirmation of Danny Kwock

    After a meteoric shot from local ripper to industry tycoon, a surfer deals with the doldrums of anticlimax.

    By Joe Donnelly
  • Joe Donnelly
    27.1

    Reinvention × Restoration 

    At home with designer, creative, and Laguna Beach enfant-terrible turned real-estate imaginative Steve Jones.

    By Joe Donnelly
  • Joe Donnelly
    30.4

    Propelled on a Zephyr of Compressed Wind

    CR Stecyk, the Smithsonian, and the first airbrushed surfboard.

    By Joe Donnelly

  • Joe Donnelly
    29.6

    The Paddle Out

    One last ride in the old world.

    By Joe Donnelly
  • Joe Donnelly
    24.4

    Father Pop

    How Mike Salisbury 'defeated communism with sex, drugs, and rock and roll.'

    By Joe Donnelly
  • Joe Donnelly
    24.1

    The Big Dream

    Over the horizon with Robert Heeley.

    By Joe Donnelly
  • Joe Donnelly
    23.1

    Santa Barbara Modern

    Photography by Morgan Maassen

    By Joe Donnelly

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