[Editor’s note: This essay first appeared in the “Chapters of Our Lives” issue of PREMIUM Magazine, which featured personal storytelling.] South Orange County, 1966 “They’re showing that surf film,” ...
In 1966, footage of Mike Hynson walking atop his longboard debuted in theaters across the world. Alongside Robert August and filmmaker Bruce Brown, Hynson’s globe-trotting in The Endless Summer helped ...
He was handsome and brash and a stylish surfer long before he was captured on film and propelled to worldwide celebrity. Michael Hynson, co-star of the definitive surf movie “The Endless Summer,” died ...