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As a pioneer of early California surfing, a young highschooler named Kathy “Gidget” Kohner began riding waves at Malibu’s Surfrider Beach in the mid-to-late 1950s. Even more so, then, the scene at ...

As a teenager growing up in Malibu in the 1950s, Kathy Kohner liked to hang out with the surfing set. But she wasn’t content with just being an onlooker. “I was 16. I didn’t want to be the girl on the ...

In 1957 a 15-year-old girl named Kathy Kohner got caught up in the surfing craze at the beach in Malibu, California. Surfers named her Gidget. She told her father about her new hobby, and he turned it ...

Gidget doesn't surf here anymore. But the grandmother who inspired a generation to shoot the curl in Malibu, Calif., hasn't retired her board just yet. "I don't have the confidence I had when I was 15 ...

Kathy Kohner Zuckerman was 16 years old when her father, Frederick Kohner, published a novel based on her adventures on the beaches of Malibu. The book spawned movies and television shows, and Gidget ...