Allen "Dempsey" Holder

Tom Keck recently sent me this classic image of Dempsey Holder. Dempsey was the first person known to surf the Tijuana Sloughs (1937) and lead the charge on that "first" of the California big wave spots in the 1940s and 1950s.

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