https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2025/09/07/ron-jon-surf-shop-founder-dies-jersey-shore-cocoa-beach-surfing-retail-florida/86027300007/

https://www.floridatoday.com/s...l-florida/86027300007/

Image chopped for chopola. Just click on the original link to see the "old" photo of RJ's, before the current monster building.

My memory is foggy, but I'm guessing that was early 80's.

It seems like the store was there but much smaller in 1977, and didn't have the giant sign outside then.

Edited: 09/09/2025 at 11:33 AM by CurtisEflush

There was I recall, an incredible amount of insight and inside information about on here over the years. Its been so long that I have forgotten it but didn't someone spend some time in federal prison, and then that whole schism that became the Cocoa Beach Surf factory?

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Ron liked to blow things up.

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Dora Hates You

CurtisEflush photo to large. Cant read text.

His CRT monitor is too small

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We have certain things in common Jeffrey..

We'd go into his first little shop on North 3rd and bug the heck out of him.

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Dora Hates You

Whatever happened to catshit?

Balsa Bill relayed a post on facebook today saying the Jon in Ron Jons is for his son named john.

I heard the original tee shirts sold well because there was a small baggy rolled up in them.

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I was right.