I would be very surprised if anybody was surfing there in 1958.
I’m sure I remember something about the original windsurfing board being an old door. But I’m in a hotel in Normandy right now, with my phone pressed against the window to find enough signal to reply. I’ll look it up when I can.
j
Yeah, just beat me to it- surfing is really popular in Cornwall especially, with a few other spots around England. Not the warmest place to surf, but why would you assume there’s no waves?
Likewise a fair point.
j
Be prepared to be very surprised then. Please excuse the appallingly difficult to read website, but there are records of people surfing in Newquay from the 1920s.
ETA: by the late 1930s they were actually using surf images for adverts for Newquay holidays. I expect it tailed off a bit over the next few years, mind.
Now I remember, as detailed recently on these boards, Agatha Christie stated surfing in - accounts vary - maybe 1922. She lived in Greenway, a short drive from Cornwall. So, y’know?
j
j
Let’s call that a simulpost.
j
It’s also the planet Jupiter. and a cognate of mind, mental, and mantra.
TIL today: the car manufacturer Mazda is also named for the god Ahura Mazda. I’d always assumed that it was a Japanese word.
One clue is that all Japanese syllables end in a vowel or “n”…I think.
An explanation of the Japanese syllable structure is at this URL:
That’s one explanation. According to the wiki, its Japanese name is “Matsuda,” which by sheer coincidence was also the founder’s name. They might have come up with Mazda and the alternate etymology to appeal to Western ears.
Similarly, I once saw an interview with some of the founders of “Sony,” and that name was alleged to have been a combination of the Latin word “sonus” for “sound,” and the fact that they were all young “sonny boys.”
I’m also learning that today, I assumed it was coincidence, Zoarastrianism having never being particularly influential in Japan.
Apparently not, I do wonder how the people who named it came up with the name (though wiki says it “also derives from the name of the company’s founder, Jujiro Matsuda”)
Mazda comes from Ahura Mazda, the god of harmony, intelligence and wisdom from the earliest civilization in West Asia. Key members of Toyo Kogyo interpreted Mazda as a symbol of the beginning of the East and the West civilization, but also a symbol of the automotive civilization and culture."[14]
The last living son of a Civil War veteran died on June 7, 2026.
Chester Parker Pool, born on March 27, 1844, served with the West Virginia Infantry. He was 80 when his son, William Pool, was born on January 13, 1925. Charles died eight years later. Charles had married Clara Belle Straw when he was 71 and she was 27. They had five children together. William was 101 when he died.
Chester = Charles?
Charles. Chester was the name he gave to the leg he lost in the war. (Losing the leg is real. The name is speculation.)
So he was the man with one leg called Chester, what was the name of his other leg?
Fields.
That’s in case the lost leg was the left leg, if it was the right leg then the other leg was called “man”.
Must have been his left leg. If Charles lost his man parts, how did he father five kids in his seventies?