Remembering Butch: The Butch Van Artsdalen Story

Butch Billy Graham Mickey Dora Linda Benson Chuck Hasley Johnny Fain Salli Vining Mike Diffenderfer Linda Opie and everyone involved remember you fondly. Thats Anne Tiny Brain Thomas on Butchs lap.

Corky Carroll Remembering Surfer Butch Van Artsdalen The First Mr Pipeline Orange County Register

The Butch Van Artsdalen Story by Douglas Cavanaugh.

Remembering butch: the butch van artsdalen story. They dont always give the whole story of the man. The Butch Van Artsdalen Story by Douglas Cavanaugh. Pipeline a moniker he was bestowed for his amazing surfing in the first years that people started surfing the extremely dangerous Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands.

A big ceremony was held for him at Pipeline and his ashes were scattered into the lineup the rightful place for him. On the far right in Joeine Ho the matriarch of Hawaiis wonderful Ho Clan Michael Derek Mary Anne Mason Coco etc. The Butch Van Artsdalen Story and elucidated in detail what is too often forgotten in surfing lorethe good side of Bla James.

Butch lived hard and died just as hard in 1979 at the young age of 38. Harold Bloomfield and Sally Barta are the standing couple. MARVIN VAN ARTSDALEN--I had just come home from a movie and saw that Butch and Bla James were in a fight.

Then there was this huge pie fight. Butch van Artsdalen on the strength of a single session in 1962 Jock Sutherland during the relatively mild winter season of 1968-69 and the legendary Gerry Lopez who in truth only reigned supreme from 1971 to 1975. Thought Id share this in honor of the 34th Anniversary of Butchs death.

There have been zillions of excellent surfers that have come out of the La Jolla area over the years but none greater than the infamous Black Butch I am talking about Butch Van Artsdalen original member of the WindanSea Surf Club and the original Mr. The author of the book in the middle is Douglas Cavanaugh. Then there was this huge pie fight.

I waded through the party and tried to break it up. Excerpts from a not-yet-published book Remembering Butch. Butch Van Artsdalen Newhall.

Photo taken by Jon SarrettWindanSea Parking lot. Whats this story of Butch Van Artsdalen falling into depression after Jose Angels free-diving death in 1976. The Butch Van Artsdalen Story by Douglas Cavanaugh.

Recently I attended a memorial service for Harry Phillips the former owner of Flowers by Adelaide in La Jolla. Every wave he rode people were standing on the beach going berserk. A time of free spirits and daredevil antics that definitely help form surfings culture.

I didnt know who Bla was I just saw that they were drunk and Bla was winning just beating the hell out of Butch. GREG NOLL It was as if someone moved Bellvue Psychiatric Hospital to the beach and turned the inmates loose there at WindanSea. Hynson had studied the North Shore and shaped this board based on what hed personally learned through trial and error.

I got in between them and said Hey. I remember filming there and Tiny Brain Thomas was getting rolled down the cliff in a metal trashcan. Legendary surfer Butch Van Artsdalen trades gash in head for keg of beer.

The Butch Van Artsdalen Story with all the players and all the antics of 1950s and 60s California surfers. The lovely lady on the left with the obscenely wide shoulders is Butchs daughter Kelly Reid. Surfing and Athletic This page is dedicated to the original Mr.

It is sponsored by his sister Annette. I was having a conversation with some of the former delivery boys who worked for Harry over the years. Another photo of the Butch Van Artsdalen party at Puiki Park pre-festivities.

Long Bar Butch Van Artsdalen. The young surfer was much like Butch in that he never let contests ego or personal ambition supersede his Aloha spirit. Or surfers in general.

Butch Van Artsdalen wrote Steve Pezman when he was editor at Surfer magazine in the 1980s was from Windansea which in itself said almost everything. The Butch Van Artsdalen Story by Douglas Cavanaugh. Lets knock it off.

GREG NOLL-- It was as if someone moved Bellvue Psychiatric Hospital to the beach and turned the inmates loose there at WindanSea. The Butch Van Artsdalen Story by Douglas Cavanaugh. Butch had a great deal of love and Aloha for Jock even on his most jaded days.

Pipeline It was the morning of a late November day during the Winter of 62-63 on the North Shore Steve recalled that Roy Crump and I were drawn to the beach at Pipeline on a really perfect ten-foot. A prodigious athlete gifted in organized sports Butch Van Artsdalen January 31 1941-July 18 1979 was one of the most colorful characters surfing has known. I didnt go over that year but I found out later on from Diffenderfer in the WindanSea parking lot that Van Artsdalen had just ripped the Pipeline apart just like I knew he would.

Did Artsdalens spiral typify anything about The Windansea Surfer. When Butch arrived on the North Shore he was presented with a beautiful red surfboard custom shaped by Mike Hynson dubbed The Red Devil. Only three other surfers have earned that moniker.

Please feel free to. Yes there absolutely was one. Surfers didnt give a shit like Greg says and if you dont give a shit for enough years the options get really narrow.

Butchs best friend Kimo Hollinger reminded me of this after reading the manuscript of Remembering Butch. Steve told another story about Butch Van Artsdalen the day Butch became the first King of the Pipeline aka. Pipeline Butch Van Artsdalen.

In real life he was married to the lovely Elizabeth Montgomery Samantha Stevens from Bewitched a dream girl by any generations standards. I remember filming there and Tiny Brain Thomas was getting rolled down the cliff in a metal trashcan. Homer Skief Suzanne Stewart Barry Kanaiapuni and Dave Willingham.

Along with Hynson and Frye Butch was a gremmie in the heaviest beach crew ever the one that went on to become The Mead Hall Gang the first ever to do the North Shore and ride the heavies back when they were known to be impossible.

Capitan Surfocker Surfer Rocker Kulture From Remembering Butch The Butch Van Artsdalen Story By Douglas Cavanaugh