Elsworth Booth Paddleboard (1935) (might be the same board as PAD.6 & PAD.30)
ClassificationsPaddleboards
Credit LineElsworth Booth
Object numberPAD.41
DescriptionOne of four built by Elsworth Booth in 1935 and was used by the Newport Beach Lifeguards at China Cove, Montera Street, the Fun Zone and 18th Street.Paddleboards have been used for over 40 years as rescue boards by life guards, the Red Cross, the military, and hundreds of summer camps. First designed and built by national swimming champion, inventor, author, actor and surfer Tom Blake, these innovative, hollow-core surf/paddle boards dominated the surfing world until the late 1940’s. While prior surfboard designs consisted of solid wooden boards dating back to the ancient Hawaiians, these new-concept, lighter boards were an immediate success and became extremely important in the evolution of the modern surfboard. Highly collected, the few remaining boards are extremely rare and exceptionally expensive.
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c. 1935-1940