As a teenager growing up in Malibu in the 1950s, Kathy Kohner liked to hang out with the surfing set. But she wasn’t content with just being an onlooker. “I was 16. I didn’t want to be the girl on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the original "Gidget" movie, in 1959, Hollywood churned out any number of sequels. "Gidget Grows Up." "Gidget Goes to Rome." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Hollywood released "Gidget" in 1959 it unleashed one of the first waves of mainstream attention and popularity for surfing in ...

“Let’s read what I was doing on the same day in 1956,” she says. “That’ll be fun for us. You’ve come at a good time. I’m feeling very chatty ­because I’ve just had lunch. I’ll show you around the ...

As a pioneer of early California surfing, a young highschooler named Kathy “Gidget” Kohner began riding waves at Malibu’s Surfrider Beach in the mid-to-late 1950s. Even more so, then, the scene at ...

Southern Californian surf bums Francie Lawrence and Jeff Matthews - Gidget and Moondoggie to their friends - have just gotten pinned. Jeff is home from college for the summer, so he and Gidget only ...