{"id":65748,"date":"2025-09-08T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=65748"},"modified":"2025-09-08T10:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T17:30:44","slug":"ron-jon-surf-shop-founder-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=65748","title":{"rendered":"Ron Jon Surf Shop Founder Dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65749\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ronjonrip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ronjonrip.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ronjonrip-200x113.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ron Jon Surf Shop<\/strong> founder <strong>Ron DiMenna<\/strong> died on September 6, 2025, according to a story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/local\/2025\/09\/07\/ron-jon-surf-shop-founder-dies-jersey-shore-cocoa-beach-surfing-retail-florida\/86027300007\/\"><em><strong>Florida Today<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. He was 88.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cRon was revolutionary,\u201d said <strong>Jack A. Kirschenbaum<\/strong>, a retired Cocoa Beach attorney and avid surfer who was a close friend of DiMenna and last saw him in August. \u201cHe turned surfing, which was a nomadic, fringe sport practiced by kids into a mainstream retail juggernaut. He saw what no one else saw. He will be sorely missed,\u201d said Kirschenbaum, adding that DiMenna&#8217;s grand vision appealed to hardcore surfers and tourists alike, turning the giant Cocoa Beach store into another must-see Florida destination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with the DiMenna family. For the rest of the story, please click the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/local\/2025\/09\/07\/ron-jon-surf-shop-founder-dies-jersey-shore-cocoa-beach-surfing-retail-florida\/86027300007\/\">Florida Today<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Jon Surf Shop founder Ron DiMenna died on September 6, 2025, according to a story on Florida Today. He was 88. \u201cRon was revolutionary,\u201d said Jack A. Kirschenbaum, a retired Cocoa Beach attorney and avid surfer who was a close friend of DiMenna and last saw him in August. \u201cHe turned surfing, which was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65752,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65748\/revisions\/65752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}