Orange County's Endless Summer Timeline
| 1937 | — |
Dick Dale is born |
| 1941 | — |
John Van Hamersveld is born |
| 1945 | — |
Robert August is born |
| 1947 | — |
Corky Carroll is born |
| 1954 | — |
Dick Dale moves to Orange County |
| 1959 | — |
Corky Carroll's first competition 1959 West Coast Surfing Championships at Huntington Beach and places third |
| 1961 | — |
Dick Dale's "Let's Go Trippin'" is often regarded as the first surf rock song |
| 1962 | — |
Dick Dale releases first full-length album "Surfers' Choice," with signature single "Misirlou" reaching number one in Los Angeles. |
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Corky Carroll's first contest victory at the 1962 San Clemente Surf Capades. | |
| 1963 | — |
Corky Carroll becomes the US Junior Champ with a win at Huntington. |
| 1966 | — |
"The Endless Summer" movie debuts |
| 1967 | — |
John Van Hamersveld's Magical Mystery Tour album cover for the Beatles |
| 1968 | — |
John Van Hamersveld's creates promotional poster for Jimi Hendrix performance at LA's famed Shrine Auditorium and Jefferson Airplane (Crown of Creation) album cover |
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Corky Carroll named "Best Surfer in the World," in a Surfer Magazine readers poll. | |
| 1969 | — |
John Van Hamersveld creates famous "grinning Johnny" image, a version of which is said to have been the inspiration for John Pasche's designs for the Rolling Stones' "Lips & Tongue" logo. |
| 1972 | — |
Corky Carroll "retires," at the age of 24 |
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John Van Hamersveld's album cover for The Rolling Stones (Exile on Main Street) | |
| 1984 | — |
John Van Hamersveld's 360-foot-long mural for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games |
| 1988 | — |
Dick Dale and Stevie Ray Vaughn Nominated for a Grammy Award for the music in the motion picture Back to the Beach. |
| 1994 | — |
Dick Dale's rendition of "Misirlou" used during the opening credits of the film "Pulp Fiction" |
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Robert August is recognized by the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame as a "Local Hero" | |
| 1995 | — |
Dick Dale records a surf-rock version of Camille Saint-Saëns's "Aquarium" from The Carnival of the Animals for the musical score of the enclosed roller coaster, Space Mountain at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. |
| 1996 | — |
Corky Carroll is recognized by the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame as a "Local Hero" |
| 1997 | — |
Dale Recorded and Performed the Music for Disneyland "Space Mountain" |
| 1998 | — |
Dale Performed on top of "Space Mountain" for Grand Opening of "Tomorrowland" |
| 2002 | — |
Robert August and Corky Carroll inducted into the Surfing Hall of Fame, along with other notable surfers Robert "Wingnut" Weaver, Corky Carroll, Laird Hamilton and Kelly Slater. |
| 2004 | — |
Corky Carrol recognized by the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame as a Surfing champion (must have held World Championship and/or World Class events titles specific to the City of Huntington Beach). |
| 2005 | — |
John Van Hamersveld Created Cream Reunion poster for Royal Albert Hall and Madison Square Garden |
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Dick Dale's "Misirlou" heavily sampled in Black Eyed Peas song "Pump It" (from 2005 album Monkey Business) | |
| 2007 | — |
Dick Dale presented with only the third personalized medallion in forty years from Guitar Player Magazine as a "'Guitar Legend'" |
| 2009 | — |
John Van Hamersveld is official artist of Freemont Street Experience's "Summer of '69: Vegas or Bust" |
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Dick Dale's West Coast tour from Southern California to British Columbia with approximately 20 concert dates |
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