The Importance of Gidget in Surfing

From about 1960 to about 2001, when Gidget the book was reissued, she pretty much disappeared from surf culture while surfing was ballooning into the gigantic industry it is today. "Kathy was the beginning of selling surfing to everybody," says surf historian Matt Warshaw. Kathy's last line: Maybe I'm just a woman in love with a surfboard. That's a surfing expression. She met her husband, Marv; they have two sons and three granddaughters.