{"id":103230,"date":"2015-02-09T21:33:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T04:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=103230"},"modified":"2015-02-09T21:33:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T04:33:48","slug":"surfing-inc-for-more-than-50-years-these-o-c-shops-made-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=103230","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Inc.? For more than 50 years, these O.C. shops made it happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Harbour still has his first business license \u2013 purchased for $15 from the city of Seal Beach on June 30, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>He was so young, he had to put his dad\u2019s name on it.<\/p>\n<p>Up the road, at about the same time, the owners of Katin Surf Shop were known for making canvas boat covers. But after a hot-doggin\u2019 surfer walked into the shop to ask for a new kind of surf short, Katin became the go-to place for what we know today as board shorts. (The seamstress who makes the shorts \u2013 who has worked there since 1961 \u2013 is 86 years old and has no plans to retire.)\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/surf-650631-shop-business.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Harbour still has his first business license \u2013 purchased for $15 from the city of Seal Beach on June 30, 1962. He was so young, he had to put his dad\u2019s name on it. Up the road, at about the same time, the owners of Katin Surf Shop were known for making canvas boat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103231,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103230\/revisions\/103231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}