Did Gidget surf Rincon Point? By Vince Burns Facebook Twitter Email 1 of 4 Margaret Kesson and Ken Kesson at Rincon Point ca. 1957. Jason Lumley, Courtesy of Steve Halsted Margo Halsted surfs Rincon Point ca. 1957. Jason Lumley, Courtesy of Steve Halsted The cover for the original “Gidget” (1957), a fictionalized treatment of Kathy Kohner’s summer of 1956, was written by her father Frederick Kohner. HA.com Mary Osborne shows off her skills and fancy footwork at Rincon Point. Justin Bastien Facebook Twitter Email Print Save “Listen, Gidget,” he said with a big smirk, “there are other things than surf-riding, praise the Lord.” “Are there? Well, you can eat them raw.…Bite it,” I said, and headed for the surf. So the real-life Gidget (actual name: Kathy Kohner) was saltier than the sanitized Hollywood film version (1959) that starred Sandra Dee as a hyperactive beach bunny. Or at least that’s the version of Gidget that appears in her father’s fictionalized biography. If Gidget