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📸 by Grant Miller 2024

If you drove down Highway 101 in the 1950s and turned off at Dana Point, halfway between Laguna Beach and San Clemente, you'd find one of the most spectacular waves Southern California ever knew.

Locals called it Killer Dana, a right-hand point

A Wave With Power and Grace

What made Killer Dana special was the way it gathered energy from the open Pacific. Swells traveled up the coast, hit the point, and bent into perfect lines.

On smaller days

It was a fun, user-friendly break, with peaks inside the pier that beginners could ride for 200 yards.

On big days

The ride could stretch to 500 yards, connecting sections from the point past the pier.

I bought this from a thrift store i used to volunteer for in Capo Beach. I paid 10 bucks

I'd say for me it has to be good ol Hank

Eiler Larsen (March 27, 1890 – March 19, 1975) was a Danish-born vagabond who was known as "The Greeter" of Laguna Beach

From the 1940s until the early 1970s, the shaggy-haired, heavily bearded Larsen grinning, waving, and booming "Halloo-oo-oo!" to visitors became a cultural icon for Laguna Beach tourists.

5 bucks for both! Best claim ever