Kern River Surf Co.
Adventure Doesn't Wait For A Beach!
Latest from the Riverbed
Kern River Surf Co creates wearable proof that Bakersfield, Kern County, and inland California have a culture worth remembering—even when the history is questionable, the river is dry, and the surf break may never have existed.
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McKittrick Hotel/Penny Bar T-Shirt
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Gary Drilling Tribute T-Shirt
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Q94 T-Shirt
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Bakersfield- Sun Fun Skate Surf- Sign | Kern River Surf Co T-Shirt
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Trout’s Dancing & Cocktails Lost Bakersfield T-Shirt | Kern River Surf Co
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Oildale PanAm Surf Break Tee
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Surf Rider at the Wonder Lodge T-Shirt | Lost Bakersfield Tiki Motel Tee
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Kick Ass Magic 98 Retro Bakersfield Radio Shirt
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KKXX Rock and Stereo Bakersfield Nostalgia T-Shirt
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Mudflap Surfgirls
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OWENS, HAGGARD, DAVIS, NEON and KNOWLIUM Tee – Bakersfield Sound Meets 80s Afterparty
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Pan Am World Tour of Surfing – Oildale 1977 Tee | Kern River Surf Co Vintage Canal Surf Shirt
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Lil’ Sparky Youth T-Shirt – Kern River Surf Co Future Legend Tee
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FFTP Drilling Co. “Can’t Gitt’r – Can’t Stay” Oilfield Tribute Tee
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Kern River Surf Co Collegiate Youth T-Shirt – Retro California Kids Surf Tee
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Boudreaux’s Bayou Petting Zoo Youth Tee – Kern River Surf Co
$25.00
Circa 1986.
Still waiting on the San Andreas tidal wave to turn Rosedale into the beachfront capital of SoCal. Probably the first time someone tried surfing a canal with a garage door panel. Kern River Surf Co wasn’t founded then—but the attitude was. Officially “established” in 1991 (give or take), KRSCo has evolved into a nebulous surf brand with real merch, unapologetically repping Bakersfield’s landlocked wave riders and Truxtun Lakes Yacht Club dreamers as the best surf shop Bakersfield locals can claim their own.
Locally Designed. Kern-Born.
Back in the 80’s when lawn darts were legal, our friends started drawing stuff and we never told them to stop.
Pick Your Poison
The Forgotten Voyage: Rolf Thiegurdsen and the Coconut Raft to Kernville
By C. M. Halloran, Pacific Ethnohistory Quarterly, Spring 1979 In the spring of 1950, amid Cold War tension and California’s golden postwar optimism, a little-known Norwegian ethnographer named Rolf Thiegurdsen launched one of the most bizarre and forgotten...
Not the Devil: Old Sparky
Old Sparky: The Devilish Summer Spirit of Kern County Skate Culture There’s a certain time of year in the south end of the San Joaquin Valley when the sun turns the asphalt into a griddle, the air stands completely still, and even the shade feels like it’s given up....
Kern River Tiki
Myth Mystery, and Modern Style In the heart of California’s Central Valley, where the sun scorches the hills and the Kern River rushes with wild abandon, a legend has quietly endured—passed down in whispers, campfire stories,...
How Kern River Surf Co Was Founded on Freedom
The Founding Wave and Patriotic Origin of Kern River Surf Co. Long before Bakersfield bore orchards or oil fields, before the freeways ran like veins through California’s Central Valley, the banks of the Kern River whispered legends—some real, some ridiculous, and...
Gordon’s Ferry-Tail & Kern River Surf Co
CROSSING OVER: GORDON’S FERRY, CHARON RIVER INDUSTRIES & THE BATTLE FOR OUR SOULS (AND BOARDS)By the Kern River Surf Co Field Department of Regional Myths and Transportation Logistics Before the dam, before the bridge, and long before the Oildale meth gators...
Friday Night Bakersfield Drag Racing and Tacos
My friends and I argue about which was the more popular destination for weekend high school Bakersfield drag racing. Was it out in the north side of town. Zerker Road, or was it out in the south end past Pacheco and towards...
Do you remember the F Street Bridge?
Kern River Surf Co just added the first items mentioning the F Street Bridge. Kern River Surf Co. has always been about honoring the places that raised us—half real, half remembered. And now, for the first time, we’re releasing gear that pays tribute to one of...