Hey man that's totally cool. Actually I had to "ad-lib" a little bit for funs sake. But he really did take the board when (I guess?) your brother pleeded if they could hang onto it. Hey he wanted to meet Corky and get an autograph too... Then Corky did ride it over on N.Beach.

Dennis Clay - right on know exactly who you're talking about. If you're that age, you prob know my family. Jan Patrick (Cardin) is my sister and ran around with Dana, Chuck and Dennis. Patty/Buddy/Linda/Jan and then baby Mikeee haha. Buddy ran WTVX Chan 34, and owned B&S Photo, Jan and her hubby owned Cardin & Son Carpet, Linda & Pat live up here in Brevard - Remember the old Farm Supply Headquarters on the way to N.Beach. That was my family too... I'm a Ft.Pierce redneck at heart haha, I grew up in Frankie & Johnny's.

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Hope surfboards were made by Flea Shaw in Flagler. He still makes insane boards, good luck trying to get one, Frieda is the only one who gets them, 4 time world champ and his wife.

I remember seeing Mike Doyle on TV in the early 60's at the beginning of Wide World of Sports every Saturday(?) when they would show a clip of a skier wiping out on a down hill ski jump ramp, and a couple other clips of others in other sports, he was tandem surfing with a girl, that is my first recollection of seeing anyone surf and remember thinking how cool that was and wanting to do it. I was 5-6('61-'62) years old and we lived in Birmingham, AL then.
I'm sure the first board I ever saw and rode was my cousin's who lived in Cocoa Beach (who had moved to Cocoa Beach in '58 with my Aunt and Uncle) when we went there on a family summer vacation from AL to FL in '61 or '62. They lived on Angelo Lane so we would walk to the beach at the end of 520 which is I'm sure where I rode my first wave on my cousin's 9'6".
Then I remember being SO EXCITED when my Mom came out to the back yard one day in '63 to tell me we were moving to FL!! Dad was going to work for NASA. We moved to Titusville the summer of '64. And I'm STILL STOKED.

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Edited: 05/28/2009 at 11:29 AM by HepCat

Does anybody remember" Grahmn"(not sure of exact spelling) surfboards out of the Pompano Beach area in the early to mid sixties. Everyone had large redwood stringers and tailblocks, glassed clear with a distinct green volan type tint. I saw several show up in that area as the first custom boards. This was after KEOKI,ROYAL HAWAIIAN,DEXTRA etc. popouts but before surfboards Hawaii and webers became available. Not sure about exact year.

'64 or '65
Balsa Bill... ?

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1959 Lavallette, New Jersey

Charlie Keller, Jimmy Crecca and Richie Baron

Charlie and Jimmy were riding homemade Styrafoam boards with cedar stringers and glassed with epoxy. (I know some of you thought that was new). Skegs were made of plywood and attached with "L" brackets and bolted on.

Baron was riding a Tom Blake style hollow board made from a set of plans from a 1939 edition of Popular Science magazine.

Meanwhile down the beach a couple of miles in Ortley Beach, Mike Howes was riding his shorter version of the Tom Blake board (I'll post photos later). I didn't see him until I went on my first "surfing safari" in 1962.



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there were 3.... the Munson brothers.... south 13th street. way way back in the day

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And Bob will ALWAYS be my numero uno. -Tiffanys

The first "Custom" board I ever saw was a brand called "Surfboard House" from a shop in South Beach Miami across from the Dog Track and next to a bagel bakery. A couple of years later my friend Carl Franklin bought the first custom made for an individual board I'd seen Shaped by Bud Gardener. I think Gardener was shapinbg out of Opa Locka at the time.

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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

First board wuz a Rebel by the williams brothers when they still lived in Ormond by the Sea.Those guys r some of the best guys I have ever seen ride boards that they built.Now I ride some really great boards me and my friend build.Check us out at visionsurfco.com.....

I remember O'Hare having a Tommy McRoberts Model - The Rebel, back in '66

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Gene Guy took me surfing at Cocoa Beach for the first time in the fall of 1967. It was somewhere behind Ron Jon's on a Surfboards Hawaii Model A. We had just moved there from Gainesville.

come to think of it..a new Dewey Weber Longboard like the one in the for sale thread..........coke bottle green tint.......fiberglass smell.... 4 Corners @ Winter Park, some inland boat dealer---- 68ish or earlier.

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ha ha > Vote for Rewind Cain, he'll get it right....eventually.

Campbell had a factory in Indialantic and was staffed mainly by Californians when a young Hawaiian transplant from Lighthouse Pt, Fla Bob Reeves came up in 1965 +- to build boards with them he (Campbell) was indeed from Santa Cruz and it is very possible that Haut and other notable Calif shapers suchas Johnny Rice, who headed down to Brazil to shape after leaving Fla, shaped what was the best product available at that time built in Brevard.

 

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

Edited: 05/20/2011 at 01:03 PM by Rocknrollisland

I do indeed remember and I knew Graham Jahelka and all of his team members that consisted of the most talented south Florida surfers of that time (early to mid 60's).  Bill Bringhurst (Hall of Famer). Bob and Jack Reeves Hawaiian transplants and icons in surfboard construction, Dennis 'skinny' English probably the best surfer south of Cocoa Beach in 1966, Chip Thompson the best junior surfer south of Fletcher Sharp, Donnie Reid, John Bothwell, Dave 'Rat' Parsons (produced first Beastie Boys album) and some others that I've forgotten.  Graham built the best board in Fla at that time imho and Graham taught Jack Reeves his famous glossing technique that made Jack the go to laminator on the North Shore of Oahu for Dick Brewer to this day.  Oh can't forget senior member Frank 'Tuppy' Tuppens RIP.

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

Mid 60s.  A high school classmate surfed.  This was in Delaware.  He wasn't from Delaware.

when i was a little grom, one of the hobgoods told me to watch his board while he got wax out of his car....pretty sure it was a standard thruster with a squash tail

the first board i ever saw was a j/c penny number and you guessed C.B was riding it. I wonder if had magic in i.t I touched it once and been out there ever since .

My first board was an old Surfboard Hawaii that was 9'6" and weighed about 35 lbs that was in 66' man that thing was a tank !!! Lived a little over two blocks from the beach and was a chore to get it there. Eventually made a long dolly to put it on and haul behind the ole Stingray bike. Man what I wouldn't give to go back to that time.

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eibla- I remember that time very well. The Surfboard House, Royal Hawaiin surfboards, the South Beach scene and everything that came with it. My first board was a new 9'6" Jacobs that I bought at the Surfboard House when he started selling boards.  Do you remember Holy Joe ????????????????????

Holy Joe!? Hell yes! He'd preach hell and brimfire on the beach behind the dog track every weekend. He was kind of a Pain in the @$$ but harmless and just part of the scene. One weekend some "tough guys" decided to punch him up and the local SoBe'rs jumped THEM! They took off running like hell with a mob chasing after them. I was just around 15 yrs old and followed the pack. They cornered one of the guys down around Collins Ave and 3rd street and had just started pummeling him when Miami Beach's finest showed up. He was bloodied up but never so happy to see cops in his life.

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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