In the late 60's I worked for Oceanside Surfboards in Cocoa Beach FLa. for owner Billy Feinberg.
We made the Ron Jon Surfboards. They bought our "seconds" which we labelled RON JON;
the firsts were labelled OCEANSIDE.
I glassed boards and then later shaped for them. I worked with the legendary shaper Johnny Rice also Bob Tome, The glasser and cartoonist/artist Jimmy Phillips, Nuclear Norman the glosser, and Dave Hanks a sailer and glasser from Brasil.
I quit and went back to Monterey Calif, built some boards then went into boat building then on to the auto industry for 25 years.
While in the car biz I worked for manufacturers as a rep, one of them sent us off to Florida for a BS convention national meeting .. 3 of us took a trip to Ron Jons.. their wax room was bigger than the original Ron Jons.. a couple of the Oceanside boards were on the walls including one of Johnny Rices V 360's and my hopelessly failed Monterey Boat Tails.
RON JON was a retailer, not a board builder.
Ron Jons had butted joints, Oceanside had mitred joints : )
The April 2011 Dewey Balfa Cajun & Creole Heritage Week
