CJ's Board Shop

Larry gordon is one of the men who put the industry in surf industry. over the past 44 years, gordon has brought a lot of surfboards into the world. a lot of surfboards. since he started blowing foam and shaping in san diego in 1959, larry gordon figures he has been personally responsible for shaping and/or selling as many as 100,000 surfboards under the gordon and smith label. in 1956 gordon stripped, reshaped and reglassed his balsawood board. then in 1957 wayne land custom-shaped another balsawood board that gordon glassed. by 1959 gordon was a 19-year-old chemistry major at san diego state college when, with no real experience he and his partner floyd smith, built a mold, bought chemica