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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