- Marcus Maraih
- 3 February 2025
Surf Museum Hawaii has acquired an excellent condition contest program for the 9th annual International Surfing Championships at Makaha Beach, circa 1962. The annual competition...
- Marcus Maraih
- 15 January 2025
The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865. The newspaper served the Bay Area, which is where Hawaiian Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole and his brothers...
- Marcus Maraih
- 13 January 2025
World Outlook magazine was created and published by Willard Price, a Methodist leader, writer, and editor who was born in 1887. Price had a penchant...
- Marcus Maraih
- 12 January 2025
Sometimes we’re able to secure ephemera from collectors who have taken great care to preserve the delicate pages and ink that recorded a moment in...
- Marcus Maraih
- 10 January 2025
Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) has added another rare piece to our growing ephemera collection. This one is unlike the usual suspect travel magazines of the...
Author: Marcus M | SMH Chief Curator Butler, 1858 (source) Around 315,000 BC, Thag and Zorak, two of the first homo-sapiens, were lounging around their...
- Marcus Maraih
- 3 August 2024
Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) is building up its ephemera collection. Some of the printed antiquities will be a part of the permanent exhibit, and others...
Hobie Surfboards is without question the most enduring brand in surfing. Dale Velzy may have been the first to open a board shaping brick and...
On our schedule of Vintage Surfboard and Memorabilia Auctions (view here) we provided a “gone but not forgotten” shout-out to the Hawaiian Islands Vintage Surf...
As curators of surf memorabilia, our team is tasked to comb through surf swap meets, antique markets, and private collections all over the islands and...
Author: Marcus Maraih (@marcus_ocean) Do you know why the team behind Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) started the project? So we’d have a place to store...
Surfers are serious content consumers. We have to be, given that wave conditions rarely cooperate with our idle time. In the beginning, consumption habits generally...
Author: Marcus Maraih The team at Surf Museum Hawaii (SMH) is haunted by vintage surfboards, surf memorabilia, and related collectibles. We’d be unqualified curators of...
There is no overstating the importance of a surfboard logo, which is ironic given that ancient Hawaiians (the architects of surfing) refused to adorn boards...
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