Everyone but the littlest groms can "remember when" for something...

Here are a few I was thinking of...

Remember when there were no webcams or cell phones, so everyone gave "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" on the way to the beach?

Remember when checking the surf meant 784-2400? (for the Central Brev. crew!)

Remember when Op was actually cool? (before Wally World picked them up!)

Remember "Hot Summer Nights"? (ESPN)

Remember not having a job and being dropped off by your mom at Tables for the day?

Remember when leashes were bungie cords?

Remember when Holiday Inn was "the place" to be in CB?

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What are your "remember when's"?

Don't remember the thumbs up. I remember calling natural art's surf report. I always enjoyed Fifer's sp? reports. Then I would call the shop number anyway and annoy the employees. OP was gay but Gotcha was still cool. Don't remember hot summer nights on ESPN and this was before fuel TV. I do remember being dropped off at the beach all day with no cell phone or anyway to get a hold of my parents if someone got hurt. Usually between Hangers and Natural Art. I remember when leashes didn't have the swivel and they would get twisted really easy. "The place" to be was always Sebastian before the jetty extension.

Yes to all of them......here are some more.

Do you remember when the steakhouse on the way to Sebastian Inlet was open (Chucks?)
Do you remember Doug Deal's Alaki (sp?) surf shop at Ocean Ave.
Do you remeber the rockets in front of PAFB.
Do you remmber the concrete rubble in front of 2nd light (in front of sand dune)
I used to call 976-RAGE!!

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"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each" - Henry David Thoreau

What about the rocks between o'club and 2ndlight?

As a kid of the 80’s it was

-        Driving 80+ MPH in the dead of night on I4 then throwing pennies and bottle caps into the toll booths on the beeline

-        Spectrum, Natural Art, Quiet Flight was the top boards

-        NEON everything!

-        Color Fades, man I painted at least 50% of all boards that went through the factory with cool fades, really dig the color transitions and blends you could get

-        Billabong Corduroy Jackets, OP corduroy shorts, Lightning Bolt T's

-        Surf racks with spring loaded cords that crushed foam, and laughing when you see boards on cars nose pointed forward.

-        Martin Potters Ad of him skying 15 feet up in the air on a fly-away, now surfers are actually landing them (more of the 90's I think)

-        Martin Potters Bulls-eye design copied by our factory and painted on many boards

-        Rainbow Bridge Article about Occy and his new lifestyle change to a hippy

S       Surfer Mag subscription getting re-newed every year

-        Pink IZODs were actually OK to wear

Mu     Music on and TV tuned tothe Weather Channel on muteM

-        Painters caps with those long flaps in the back to protect your neck from sun burn

-        Rat Bones logos, Ok more skate related but the whole Bones Brigade and early Tony Hawk killing it at 16.

-        Vert skating was everywhere, what happened to all the backyard half pipes?

-        Long boards, fishes, and fun shapes were for old people

-      Real music made with real instruments

-        Ok getting away from the main subject

 

Edited: 06/26/2014 at 01:25 PM by SurferMic

Oh man the 976 numbers I completely forgot!

976-surf then having your dad yell at you for the being an idiot and calling it twice daily for a month resulting in a nice landline bill

 

Remeber Catri's Surfboards Hawaii Shop, in Satellite Beach?

Remeber Shagg actually sewing baggies from scratch in the shop?

Remember Hamburg House?

Remember Rockhead?

Remember Lums?

Remember Harbour Surfing Association?

Remember the Bahne shop?

Remember Slip check?

Remember Canaveral Pier? Patrck Pier? Canova Pier?

This is TOTALLY why I subsisted on Ramen noodles as i went broke trying to pay the phone bills for making all those calls. I totally deserved it.

Neon boardshorts (billabong) WERE THE BEST.

"Remember long drives to New Smyrna and getting stuck in the sand?" -- Ummmmm may be.

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Brother, when you get a minute, could I get a list of the words that trigger these fits?


Hey. Where are we going? (And what are we doing in a hand-basket?)

Do you remember where you were when you saw Five Summer Stories for the first time?

Seaside Heights (I think at a Community Center) for me.

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Replace turf grass with native plants that don't need irrigation and synthetic fertilizers or chemicals that can go into our waterways and ocean

How about the Melbourne Beach Casino, The BBC, Driving from Spanny to the inlet on the bluff and seeing the "baby rattlers" at Jack Forte's tackle shop, and no leashes were invented.

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Romans 8;18-32 John 3;16-18

...who would drill a hole through their fin?? why??


still have the board with the fin....


circa ~ '67










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Puerto Rico 11 - 24 - 2013

Just the other day I was telling a friend about how you could park at 2nd light and eat lunch while watching everyone surf and they couldn't imagine it.

I remember.......

Driving on the beach behind Fudpuckers ( now Coconuts )

Georges Steak House in Canaveral

Key West Taco next to Fudpuckers

When Spanish House was the only house.

Everyone wearing full suits except Greg Mungral

Surf Expo at the Tupperware Center

The perfect week long swell in 1977

Paved Wave in Cocoa

Brassys in it's prime

My first picture published in a surf magazine. A four page pull out poster in Waverider of Dawn Williams holding a Lightwave Surfboard.



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If I'm not shooting it I'm doing it

Tweeners

when you could pull up to 2nd light, have your chick sit in the car and watch you surf

Patrick pier

Mark Reality

inside of the port during Hurricane David

da Haole guy = shapewright





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tomkat used to surf chucks all the time .. used to camp the weekend on the dunes right there off the parking lot ..

remember when use to share waves with the slater brothers at the inlet .. remember when 5 people would surf the hole .. remember the deli where spanny house parking is now ... remember when you could park on the side of the road at spanny house ... remember when i would beg my mom or friends for a ride to the inlet for the weekend...

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Hot Summer Nights '91 intro.......good memories

Remember SBPD Fat Frye?
Remember hanging out at Natural Art and Virginia Fried Chicken next door?
Remember satellite beach bowling alley and their video games?
Remember cane poling the rocks of Satellite for sheepshead?
Remember long drives to New Smyrna and getting stuck in the sand?
Remember when skateboarding was a crime?

Surfing at:

"Jamestown"

"Shark Pit"

"two roads"

"quality suites"

"Shell shop"

Watching Sublime play at the Groove Tube. Watching Sunny surfing Makaha in"filthy habits", Occy in "green iguana". Ritchie Collins' webbed gloves, Mohawk floaters.

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Parking in the bank parking lot at RCs.

Punk rock on WFIT.

Skating Turkey Creek ditch, and the 2 foot half pipe in the woods.

Surfing "cherynobls".

When we had to actually check the surf (no cams, or internet).  There actually would be 'surprise swells'.

 

Oh, and Kechle 'Flip Tip Noses'.  You could take an eye out with one of those things!  ;-)

Yes... and... our area code was 305... surf flicks at brassy's... no cops south of OA... OA surf shop... the IGA on OA... 3 TV channel in the south beaches

Beaver tails
Gulf wax
The Satellite Lounge
Ramon's
The Mouse Trap piano bar
Yards of beer at Benards Surf
Rich's Italian gas station


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Mousetrap 1966 - I worked there as a busboy while in college and surfed across the street at the pier.

Later traded jobs with a classmate ... he went to the Mousetrap and I went to Food Fair.
Can't do that these days.

Sometimes, left my 9'6" in the stockroom there if surfing that day.

Other local fun spots back then were Winslow Beach and the Apollo bldg.

Good days at the day were measured by ..."if it was big enough to take off out at the pier's snack bar". The Snack Bar right.

So much sand added there now.
Back then, the end of the pier would only break if it was overhead.

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... positioning and selection

Ron Jon's in the plaza next to Alma's

Surfboards Hawaii with the Sharpe Brothers

Lums 

Patrick Pier

4th St then 1st St

Thirsty Turtle

Tableing's Surf Shop on 520 next to Caravel Ice Cream

8 Track Tapes

When Playalinda was closed

1st Store

Skipping school to surf

Catching Blow Hole big and perfect

1st Surfboard

Purple Wax

Movies at Surfside Playhouse

Brassy's and Don Wilson kicking ass

Anchor Club

Pillow Talk

Key West Taco

Tippy's Taco House

Sorry but that was fun

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JMA

Back to the 80's

 

-Web Gloves

-Richie Collins

-Christain Fletcher (Anti-Christ) and frontside punt that won Trestles, maybe one of the first airs ever landed in a major contest.

-Chernobyl's

Surfer Mag article:

As one of surfing’s most iconic rebels — nicknamed The Anti-Christ of Surfing — Fletcher evolved the aerial from a mere trick to a major force in surfing’s evolution. With his progressive outlook and aggressive execution, moves like the air-reverse and stale-fish became an integral part of surf vocabulary, especially in competition. But Fletcher despised competition. He notoriously claimed he “could[n't] give a f*ck about being a world champion.” His competitive edge? He simply “like[d] to go out and f*ck with people during the heats.”

Despite this distaste for putting on a jersey, Fletcher took center stage at the 1989 Surf Bout held at Lower Trestles. The event allowed him to showcase his skills on one of surfing’s biggest stages — and to, of course, go out and “f*ck with” the top pros. The PSAA event boasted the largest prize purse ever for the time: $100,000. As a result of this huge purse, Surf Bout carried an unusually large amount of prestige as well. While the then-unseeded 19-year-old spent his rest time between heats playing Skate or Die on Nintendo, during heats he ripped, eventually reaching the final where he would take down Joey Jenkins, Colin Smith, and Noah Budroe for the title and a hefty $31,725 in cash.

Edited: 06/30/2014 at 11:28 AM by SurferMic

Parking your car on the dune at Spanish House.

Those days the license plate had your county on it.

Being from PBC we always took my friends, his plate had Brevard (for some reason) to avoid the wax job.

Hey...what was the name of the Italian restaurant that used to be downtown Cocoa Beach...all I remember is it had this huge wine bottle (or maybe it just seemed huge to a little kid) that they used to melt candles in...it must've had 100 candles worth of colored wax drippings down the side!! What was that place??

almas, on a1a, down from cocoa beach hardware, and beach tackle some of us were lucky enuff to have worked there. it was awesome. (you were sorta close, louis! ha ha!).... .....Mathers bridge and the mynah birds that lived at the tackle shop there... docs bait house...Ping Pong motel....Wakulla motel...Diana Shores... old fishermans wharf....13th street crew...tinker by the sea...14th street maniacs( you know who you are) .....Hobie cats.... the Surf.....krystal burgerrrrrsssss....the Miss Natalie shrimp boat, and Natalie C.... shrimp boats at the port, night fishin at the port....the OLD Port... ....Carolyn P.... from the orange groves on M.I... carvel ice cream & Julie St. A.........the jetty!... ranch house........the OLD jonathans....J.M fields... fat boys .....Patrick deli...bubber miller's auto repair... virginia construction(no job too small!).....saturn 5 launches... .....catchin every kind of fish you can think of in the banana river... chicken man, and the fire station chicken on M.I..WKKO, WFIT....Monique,and Gigi.... KARS park.........Brassys, (of course)..... dam, some of y'all are gettin up there!

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Water dissolving...and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean

There was Alba's Italian restaurant on U.S.1in front of turd plaza?

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The toll both on 528 in Cape Canaveral

The Moon Hut

Desperados

Mars Night Club

Zinka

Bad Boy club

T & C surf characters and video game

California Games on commodore 64

Rubber nose guards

The Quiet Flight surf shop at the end of 520

Ocean Avenue, Pro Shapes, Go Surf and Water Rockets surfboards

Gotcha and Catch It clothes

Sex Wax and Bubble Gum were the only wax you could buy

H30 tv show

Herbie K's

PSSA surfing on Tv with Dino Andino and Shane Bechen always in the finals with Townend always saying in his accent "roundhouse wrap around"

Patrick Deli

Seeing the shuttle on the pad on the way out to Playalinda

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Where is Playalinda?

The toll booth on Pineda Cswy

Eau Gallie Cswy draw bridge

Wave Warriors

Tom Curren in the OP Pro at Huntington

Sundeck Classic at the Holiday Inn

Jamaican me crazy at the Hilton