Who built the surfside 6 houseboat?

Answer 1

Larry Vita built the Surfside 6 houseboat.My Granfather Ralph W. Weidler was Larry Vita's partner in a business called Surfside 6 Floating Homes. They pioneered houseboat building techniques using Larry's inventions of watertight compartments and the use of fiberglass on the hulls. The hulls were built upside down and turned over to complete the construction. The entire boat was kept on rollers until it was launched.My Sister Nancy and I visited the original houseboat in front of the Fountainbleu Hotel many times in the early 1960's A duplicate was built by Warner Brothers in Hollywood for all the interior shots.