Doctor John Ball's tenure as an officer for the Palos Verdes Surf Club sparked the production of the first journal dedicated to the sport of surfing. The club newsletter was printed and Doc's surf photographs were pasted on individually, in an attempt to create a document that would spark the enthusiasm of the members with the visual excitement of his favored sport. The portraits of club members stationed with their large paddleboards standing behind them in a traditional Hawaiian pose, are a record of a pure recreational sport on the verge of organization.

The publication of Ball's California Surfriders, an homage to the earlier publication of Tom Blake's Hawiian Surfriders , was an unadiluted west coast translation of the sport of kings. In a recent interview ninety year old Ball stated, "We would surf all day, harvest some abalone, cook it on the beach and if there was a full moon, we would surf nude at night." The photographs, which once decorated the walls of the club Zamboanga near the former dentist's office on Vermont in Los Angeles, remain an exotic view of the developing Bohemia of California's southern coast.