Pan Am World Tour of Surfing – Oildale 1977 Tee | Kern River Surf Co Vintage Canal Surf Shirt
$35.00
Before TSA lines and carry-ons, there were boards, beer cans, and a Pan Am “world tour” stop in Oildale. This tee celebrates the most prestigious surf contest ever held in a canal—just north of Bakersfield.
This shirt is made on demand—just like a Pan Am flight to Bakersfield that may or may not have ever been scheduled. Please allow a few extra days for production while we taxi down the runway, circle Oildale, and wait for clearance from a control tower that’s mostly just a guy with binoculars.
In 1977, when the jet age was still glamorous and the Kern River still had something resembling a “break,” Pan Am allegedly sponsored a stop on their World Tour of Surfing… right here in Oildale.
With flights (theoretically) landing just north of town, it only made sense. Contestants would shuttle out past the airport, down dusty roads, and into the canals or the seasonal surge near Gordon’s Ferry—where the water ran fast, the stakes were low, and the stories got better every year.
This design captures that beautifully questionable moment in surf history:
A distressed Pan Am-style graphic that feels pulled from a forgotten travel poster
A lone surfer carving through a very non-ocean wave
“Oildale 1977” stamped like it actually meant something internationally
On the back, just below the collar, sits the KRSCo sun—clean, bold, and unmistakable—like the last thing you saw before wiping out in irrigation runoff.
This is Kern River Surf Co at its finest: part myth, part memory, and 100% local legend.
• 100% ring-spun cotton
• 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
• Quarter-turned to avoid crease down the center
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