After finding this amazing web site, I decided to look up some of the theaters I had been to when I was younger living in Orange County. I was happy to find the Surf Theater listed. My brother and I came here to watch surf and skateboarder movies in it’s final years. As Gary Parks said above, the Surf was still standing in 1986 and surprisingly, I happened to have taken photos of the closed theater that same year (see photo above). It was really in poor shape and a shame that in a city (H.B.) built around surfing, nothing or no one could save it from becoming a City parking lot.
After finding this amazing web site, I decided to look up some of the theaters I had been to when I was younger living in Orange County. I was happy to find the Surf Theater listed. My brother and I came here to watch surf and skateboarder movies in it’s final years. As Gary Parks said above, the Surf was still standing in 1986 and surprisingly, I happened to have taken photos of the closed theater that same year (see photo above). It was really in poor shape and a shame that in a city (H.B.) built around surfing, nothing or no one could save it from becoming a City parking lot.