US Patent No. 2531946 Surfboard by G B D Parker November 28 1950 Vintage_Atlantic once the tallest point in

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US Patent No. 2531946 Surfboard by G B D Parker November 28 1950 Vintage_Atlantic once the tallest point inUs Patent No. 2531946 Surfboard by G B D Parker November 28 1950 Parker's schematic arrives at the dawn of California's postwar surf boom, when boards were still hollow plywood giants paddled out at Malibu and San Onofre. The line drawing details every chambered rib and sealed seam, an inventor's diagram of buoyancy drafted before foam and fiberglass rewrote the sport. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U.