Old Man's is off the Kaimana Channel. This site was first surfed regularly by Albert "Oscar" Teller (1909-1995). He came to Hawai‘i in 1932 and learned to surf in Waikiki. A bodybuilder with an excellent physique, the beachboys immediately named him "Oscar" after the statuette given out for the Academy Awards in Hollywood, and that was the name he used for the rest of his life. In 1958, Teller moved into a cottage behind the Sans Souci condominium and started surfing Old Man's. During the early 1960s, Ralph Sallee and Floyd Bendickson, two younger friends who surfed with him, began calling the site Old Man's and the name stuck. Teller surfed here regularly until 1984, when he finally stopped surfing at the age of 75. His ashes were scattered at Old Man's in 1995.

Ralph Sallee, November 4, 2000 (from John Clark's Hawaii' Place Names)

In 1959, my wife Harriett and I decided to move to Hawai‘i, so we left our two children with a babysitter and came to Honolulu to look for a house. When we didn't have any luck finding something we liked, Harriett left early to get back to the kids, and I spent my last day in Waikiki. As I walked on the beach in front of the Royal, Charlie Amalu came up to me and asked if I'd like to help him paddle an outrigger canoe. I'd never been in one before, so I said yes. Charlie was one of the old-time beachboys, and he was helping to show some condominium units in the Sans Souci, which had just been built. He had a couple he wanted to take there by canoe, and he needed an extra paddler. We paddled to the former pier at Sans Souci Beach, and I walked through the building with them. Until then we hadn't thought about living in a condo, but when I saw the view and the surf offshore, I told Charlie I would buy two units. He couldn't believe it.

In 1960, Harriett, my two sons, Bob and Phil, and I started surfing the spots off the Sans Souci and soon met Floyd Bendickson, who lived nearby in the Tropic Seas. Floyd and I became surfing buddies, and we often surfed Tongg's and Old Man's, although it wasn't named yet. At that time, there was a surfer named Oscar Teller who was always out there, and he would sit for hours, often from morning till night, waiting for the best waves. Sometimes he carried a plastic bag of bananas with him, so he wouldn't have to come in for lunch. Oscar was a wonderful guy, a quiet, calm, and gentle person, and he rode a long hollow board. He was older than us, so Floyd referred to him as the "old man," and if we were out at Tongg's and we'd see Oscar, Floyd would always say, "That's the old man's surf." Naturally we started calling the spot Old Man's, but that was pretty much just our name until 1964. That's when the Outrigger Canoe Club moved from its old location on Waikiki Beach to its present one. When the Outrigger surfers heard us calling the spot Old Man's, they picked up the name and started using it themselves, and that's when the name Old Man's was really established.