{"id":79230,"date":"2013-05-14T19:39:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T02:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79230"},"modified":"2013-05-14T19:39:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T02:39:28","slug":"california-vintage-surf-auction-makes-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=79230","title":{"rendered":"California Vintage Surf Auction Makes History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first biennial Surfing Heritage Vintage Surf Auction \u201cCalifornia Gold\u201d went off at the OC Fair &amp; Events Center in Costa Mesa yesterday with total sales of $680,000. The event was organized to raise funds for the Surfing Heritage &amp; Cultural Center, which has as its mission the preservation of surfing\u2019s history for current and future generations. Hundreds of surfers and collectors attended the event to enjoy the art, music, book signings, vintage cars and of course the silent and live auctions. Surf legends and industry icons in attendance included Tom Curren, Peter Mel, Keith Malloy, Robert \u201cWingnut\u201d Weaver, Mark Cunningham, John Van Hamersveld, Greg Noll, Larry Bertlemann, L.J. Richards, Mickey Munoz, Peter Townend, Rich Harbour, Rusty Miller, C.R. Stecyk III, Paul Naude and Fernando Aguerre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With more than 50 surfboards from the early 1900s through today, a highlight of the auction included\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/business.transworld.net\/129649\/news\/california-vintage-surf-auction-makes-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first biennial Surfing Heritage Vintage Surf Auction \u201cCalifornia Gold\u201d went off at the OC Fair &amp; Events Center in Costa Mesa yesterday with total sales of $680,000. The event was organized to raise funds for the Surfing Heritage &amp; Cultural Center, which has as its mission the preservation of surfing\u2019s history for current and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79230","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=79230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79231,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79230\/revisions\/79231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}