The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum occupies the ground floor of the Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse. This tiny, charming museum offers a wealth of classic surfboards, wetsuits and local surfing photographs arranged by decade, from the 1920s to the present. Among other revelations, you may discover that the 1970s were the decade with the worst hairstyles for men, hands down.
Step outside the museum door to view a bronze plaque honoring the Hawaiian princes who were the first to surf the California coastline, in 1885.
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