Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As one of the most enigmatic, iconic, and potentially problematic surfers to ever ride waves, Miki Dora, and the stories about him ...
Mickey Dora was one of the true colorful characters from surfing’s blossoming years of the 1950s and 1960s. He was known as the “Black Knight.” And, knowing Mickey, he probably gave himself that ...
In this vivid biography, Rensin (The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up) takes on a daunting task: to clarify the clouded myth of legendary surfer Miki Dora. Growing up in post-WWII ...
I am constantly getting requests to write about the late Mickey Dora, also known as “The Black Knight” of surfing. I have written about him before, but it was mostly many years ago and probably most ...
The beach culture blitz on mainstream America during the middle part of the 20th century was an assault of untold and unfathomable proportions. Those California-born waves made by Gidgets, Beach Boys, ...
He was an outlaw, a swindler and a con man, not to mention a shiftless vagrant who lived to avoid work. All that would have made Miki Dora just another small-time crook with a penchant for traveling ...
EVEN NOW, SIX YEARS after his death, at 67, from pancreatic cancer, you can head to the beach in Malibu and find DA CAT LIVES spray-painted on a wall. Da Cat is surfer Miki Dora, a.k.a. Mickey Chapin, ...
With a general aversion to the general public, Phil Edwards is relatively tight lipped when it comes to sharing surf stories. But he’s got them in spades. “The Guayule Kid” as they called him when he ...
Miki Dora has been called many things: “Kerouac in board shorts” (the London Times); “a deconstructor of the American dream” (Surfer magazine); and “the Bob Dylan of surf culture” (surfing writer Drew ...
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