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  • Surfer

    Sixty Years of Getting Weird

    Feb 07, 2020 3 minutes
    Illustration By ROBERT BEATTY
    TODD PRODANOVICH,
    Editor
    “WARNING: THIS MAGAZINE CONTAINS SEX, VIOLENCE, DIRTY WORDS AND SIXTY-FOOT DISASTER WAVES. MAY BE HARMFUL TO ANYONE OVER 25.”

    hat was a SURFER cover blurb from the magazine’s March, 1970 issue. SURFER had just turned 10, and then-25-year-old editor Drew Kampion was steering the publication toward its counterculture zenith like a smoke-filled van pulling into the parking lot of a Led Zeppelin show. The blurb was tongue-in-cheek (Kampion only made the cutoff, after all), but also… , am I right? Bunch of squares with their social. No way.

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