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    SHOWCASE   JIM METYKO

    Jun 29, 2018 3 minutes
    Words by ASHTYN DOUGLAS

    If you were to hop in a time machine and travel to Santa Barbara in 1979, you’d find a surf culture on the brink of sweeping change. Pro surfing was still in its infancy, the thruster was about 3 years away from being unveiled and a small-time boardmaker named Al Merrick and a 15-year-old upstart named Tom Curren were about to become two of the most influential people surfing has ever seen.

    This is the world that 20-year-old photographer Jim Metyko

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