I’m of the age that Button’s was one of the guys who’ pictures lined my walls in high school. A few years later, in the mid '80’s, I had the good fortune to meet him in Waikiki, and watch him surf Kaiser’s bowl/the long shot… He was wearing a baseball hat long before I saw anyone else do it, and he was, as they were saying, “Go fuh broke,” radical moves, most of which he wasn’t making, but when he did, everyone in the water was going nuts… His whole story… Ah life…
R.I.P. Buttons