Forget the angling over which city deserves the corny moniker "Surf City." The Dive N' Surf in Redondo Beach is actual ground zero for the Southern California water sports culture. Ocean-obsessed twin boys from Missouri, Bob and Bill Meistrell moved to Manhattan Beach in 1944. In 1953, upon their return from the Big War, the brothers launched a water-going revolution that changed Southern California forever by inventing the first practical wet suits, called Body Glove. That year they also... More »
