Above: Early hat logo, country-western theme, for no good reason, other than I always liked the skull and cactus icon for the desert. Below, our first rack card, made on a home computer and cut out with scissors.
First Rack Card — from 2002
Leucadia 1998 – Gerry Kantor in Coast News newspaper article about development
This was an article in the Coast News, the local newspaper for north county coastal.
1963 Menehune Contest at La Jolla Shores – 1st annual Margo Godfrey (now Oberg) Menehune surf contest.
Leucadia Surf School owner Gerry Kantor and his brother Phil Kantor in this early contest at La Jolla Shores. Shot originally in 8mm, from the collection of Kantor family home movies.
1946 San Diego Lifeguards Group Photo – San Diego lifeguards booth at the Del Mar surfboard show.
Dwain Kantor, father of Leucadia Surf School owner Gerry Kantor, in 1946 San Diego Lifeguards Group photo.
Encinitas San Diego surf camp video
We have been in business a long time. We used to make a video of every surf camp. We don't anymore, but we have all the videos still of years gone by. This one from way back in the summer of 2011 when we had just moved our camp from Grandview, to Moonlight Beach.
Surf Camp Videos
Why San Diego Surf Lessons?
San Diego has always had more surf than anywhere else on the California coast, but that was not recognized by the media until the last 20 years. Meanwhile, we quietly got our waves down here in San Diego.