In the early 1960s, surf shops, which had been little more than beach shacks where balsawood blanks were sculpted into surfboards, were replaced by storefronts where surfboards were sold along with ...

When Bird Huffman, of “Bird’s Surf Shed,” was asked to choose some boards from his collection for the punchy beachbreaks of Newport Beach, he stuck with a motif of drive-y, flat and thick designs.

“Most of these boards have a story,” Bird Huffman says while strolling through his new surf shop, the newly christened Bird’s Surf Shed. If so, tales from surfboards as old as 50 years are coming from ...

Eric “Bird” Huffman has been a well-respected mainstay in San Diego shaping circles for decades. His Mission Bay “Bird Shed” is one of the biggest, coolest shrines to surfboards anywhere in the world.