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And Bob will ALWAYS be my numero uno. -Tiffanys

Is that Sam Gornto out front?

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5/5 , you got it BOB!!!

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And Bob will ALWAYS be my numero uno. -Tiffanys

also Mr. Sharp (Big Buddy) at the doorway. He was an awesome man, father of Che Sharp the owner of the shop and father of Fletcher Sharp. Sams VW out front, too!

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And Bob will ALWAYS be my numero uno. -Tiffanys

Sam's board on top the VW looks like one of those new radical V-Bottom mini-longboards.

Also noted the classic Aloha surf racks ... and the 19 on the car license tags
"No 19? ... you can't surf here"

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lol, yep. back in the day, the first number on the plates indicated what county the car was from. 19 - was Brevard!

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And Bob will ALWAYS be my numero uno. -Tiffanys

I would date this at 1968 thats when the first V bottoms came out Dick Catri had gone over to Hobie and given up Surfboards Hawaii probably in 1966 and Bill Bringhurst became the East coast rep and worked at the shop.  We use to surf across the street alot when we came up the coast I bought my 7'6'' V-bottom there in 1968 with the tye dye v tint.  Actually a horrible board that I feel hurt my progress and I switched to garage boards until Jack Reeves started Tomb and Reeves with his brother Bob and Bill Tomb.

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In loving memory of my brother Lance, Duncan Currie, BVD and Bruce Dygert.

Ya, Tony Tan The Sunshine Mann had a new Surfboards Hawaii V. I was plain itching to ride it. So, , , , one waste to nipple day at O'Club I did. WTF?

Anyone recognize these mugs? The shop was owned by George Panton, that's his wife Paula on the right. The faces are familiar but I don't remember the names. Photo is about '74 - "75. I didn't realize until recently that George once owned the biggest surf shop in Huntington Beach. I understand he got toasted with to much long board inventory when short boards became the big deal. He pulled up stakes and came to Cocoa Beach.

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

Eibl's .... you know who I thought they were .... lets see if anyone else names some names.

Yep, Ol George had to declare bankruptcy when he got caught with (literally) 100's of longboards when the short board revolution hit. Which for those that are not aware happened literally within a few months. NO ONE wanted a long board and the manufactures would not give him new short boards on credit .... so he had know where to go except bankruptcy. That started a HATRED of longboards that lasted until .... well prob still does. He absolutely refused to shape a longboard ... even when DCB started (in the ccb area) the movement to "progressive" longboards in the mid 70's. His answer was the infamous "Flying Saucer" model. Which were in the 6 - 7' range ..... but up to 28" wide!!! They actually worked amazingly well!

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"Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do." - Bertrand Russell

"Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.

"I will always remember to forget about you" - Tom Waits


If I do not answer you .... nothing personal, I just have you on ignore.

Edited: 05/24/2011 at 05:59 AM by LBLarry

I rode a Saucer only once. A decent day at "Patrick Pier". To be honest I didn't like it, but that's just me. I never enjoyed riding a Fish either, they were just to squirrely under my feet. I was a single fin swallow tail guy all the way!

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

Great photo Bob 3000, I remember that van, thanks for posting.

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JMA

same building Bill  and Marjane had oceanside. Mike margolas, wrong spelling Im sure, showed me a board with jimi hendrex on it. Im like hey, whats this black guy got to do with surfing? After they hung me upsidown by my feet they introdusted me to the connection between surfing and music. live and learn! Mabey some day Ill learn to spell.

Wasn't sure where to post this picture so I thought I would put it here.  Found it while browsing the floridamemory.com website.

The photo is dated 1981.  It has to be Kech.

Thoughts?

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Kelly Slater and Dave Dixon?

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Bruce Valuzzi May 1977

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My dad said this is Joe Twombly and Bonnie Mungal.  I have no idea. 1970

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Mystery Surfer.  Photo dated Sept 1983.

Any idea??

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Pier locals circa 1970

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I was trying to figure out where this.  End of Minuteman?

 

Stores on Orlando Ave.  Don't know where though 1952/3

Another mystery surfer.  Someone has to know who this is. He has a very distinct 'look'.  Circa 1977

 

 

 

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