作为世界上最大的 冲浪运动中心, California is home to countless cool surf shops up 和 down the coast. Walk into any one of them 和 you should expect to smell surf wax 和 maybe a whiff of neoprene from the wetsuit room; your steps might crunch with s和 underfoot that’s been tracked in from a beach so close that you can almost hear the ocean. And 当然, there should be plenty of local surfers checking out boards 和 talking waves.
Even if you’re unlikely to take on 小牛, many of these surf shops have a little something for fans of surfing culture—be it swim-friendly board shorts, t恤, 或者一双经典的Vans.
Read on to explore some of California’s classic surf shops, listed south to north.
汉森冲浪板，恩西尼塔斯
汉森冲浪板 追溯到1961年, when it was started by South Dakota native Don Hansen, who first shaped surfboards in a shack on Oahu’s North Shore. 汉森搬到了 恩 20世纪70年代, 和 汉森冲浪板 has grown into a 20,000-square-foot store—the largest surf shop in San Diego County—across from the break at Swami’s.
Browse the store's collection of 500 boards, 包括许多汉森模型, as well as an assortment from such leading companies as Santa Barbara–based 海峡群岛冲浪板. Even if you’ve never caught a wave, you’ll find plenty of great Hansen-br和ed clothing, including t恤 featuring the company’s original logo.
亨廷顿海滩冲浪店
Since the 1956 opening of Gordie Surfboards beneath the city’s l和mark pier, 杭廷顿海滩 (nicknamed “Surf City USA") has been home to a remarkable 47 surf shops, as well as the headquarters for both Quiksilver 和 Roxy. 事实上, surfing’s equivalent of Times Square or Hollywood 和 Vine might be the intersection of 杭廷顿海滩’s Main Street 和 Pacific Coast Highway. On one corner is Jack’s Surfboards, a surfing palace that began as a modest shop in 1957. Outside, you can pay tribute to surfing greats memorialized in a slew of granite monuments at the 冲浪星光大道.
林康设计的冲浪店, Carpinteria
林康设计的冲浪店 owner 和 Carpinteria native Matt Moore has been a board shaper since he was a kid, 他在1980年开了自己的店. The shop now occupies two storefronts in the heart of this 圣巴巴拉县 town—one side painted a bright turquoise, with a wooden longboard next to the entrance, 和 the other side a Western-style facade made of planks 和 cobblestones. 关于 four miles down the coast from 林康 Designs is the celebrated point wave that inspired this company’s name. 被称为“海岸女王”， 林康 has also been called Southern California’s finest wave 和 “America’s gold st和ard pointbreak.”
E.T. 冲浪，赫莫萨海滩
1972年由Eddie Talbot创立, 这家航空大道商店, 离海滩有一点内陆, is quite literally packed to its wooden rafters with pretty much anything surfers 和 non-surfers will need. Time Out Los Angeles described the shop as “two stories of controlled chaos,而是一个友好的, attitude-free staff will guide you through the labyrinth. There are endless flip-flops, sneakers, board shorts, 和 other beach goods. But what really sets the store apart is what it offers those who ride: Skateboard decks line the walls in one section, while surfers can climb past vintage pictures on a veritable stairway to heaven to the board room of their dreams.
奥尼尔冲浪店，圣克鲁斯
轮船巷之家, one of the best spots in California to watch surfers, the classic beach town of Santa Cruz is also home to three 奥尼尔冲浪店, founded by the late California surfing legend 和 wetsuit innovator Jack O’Neill. 没有比这更“核心”的了,用冲浪者的行话来说, 比奥尼尔, who opened his first shop here in 1959. Now the company operates other 位置 near the 圣克鲁斯木板路, in downtown, 和 on 41st Avenue in Capitola. Shop at any of them—the selection for surfers 和 non-surfers alike is huge—和 you’ll catch a bit of surfing history. The Capitola store even displays O’Neill’s original wetsuit top.
软体动物冲浪店，旧金山
As proof of San Francisco’s depth of culture, the city can even boast of having serious surf street cred. 软体动物冲浪店 serves as a bit of a hangout for the San Francisco surfing community, 和, 当然, sells surfing gear—everything from longboards to wetsuits to vintage-style board shorts sewn right in San Francisco. 事实上, Mollusk isn’t only about the sport of surfing, but also about the art of surfing: The shop has books, 艺术展览的画廊空间, 和 live music events (don’t miss the second-floor space that looks like a weird wooden submarine). The shop has also exp和ed into Southern California, with 位置 在银湖和威尼斯海滩.
