I think it was 1964 when someone came back from California with
a surfboard and rode it at the north end of Lake Worth beach. It
seems like within a few weeks there were at least 20 more. By
the summer of 65 they were everywhere.
I didn't know any of the very FIRST surfers, but my sister was definately
the first female in our area. Tuppens (boating) sold the first surfboards,
of course longboards only.

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My brother was the first surfer I ever saw. A surf shop in the early 1960s in Ft. Pierce sold "Corky Carrol" model surfboards - they had ONE! He came to town and they BEGGED my brother not to take his brand new Corky Carrol board off the showroom floor. They wanted it to be there when the man came into town.

So of course my brother told them to drop dead it was paid for (in a much nicer way). Corky saw the board at North Beach with a crowd watching - and asked my brother if he would let him borrow his brand new board. My brother told him to buzz off and go suck on a raw egg... no of course he gladly said "Yes!" and Corky went out and rode the...

6" surf that the North Jetty was producing that day. LOL

But my brother had that board forever. Then when I was a little grom some good friends - a guy named Dana Myers and Chuck Hutchison down in Ft. Pierce chopped it up and made a little board out of it for me (prob 8 years old).

I'd kill to have the old Corky Carrol board back! *grin*

Mikeee P

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Virginia Beach in the early to mid sixties, the surf craze was in full force. Everything from California was the rage back then....frisbees, skim boards, hula hoops, slip'in slides, and of course surfboards. The company called "Wham-O" seemed to have a lock on everything kids our age wanted.

They had the East Coast Surfing Championships in V-beach and we marveled at the skill of these young men, each of us hoping to snag a ride and a board one day. To be part of the scene and to master such a large board seemed like the ultimate sport. We moved to Fla soon after and it took another 15 years for me to assemble a quiver, many of which I own to this day.

I mostly recall the purity of the sport and how strong and athletic those who surfed looked to me as a child. I hope to impart that image to my own kids as they learn the sport as well.

The first "real" surfboard I ever saw was a "Dextra" in the Zayre's (forerunner of Walmart and K-mart) near my house in Miami around 1961 or 62. After seeing the Duke Contest in '63 ( I think) I just HAD to do that surfing thing. There was one surf shop in South Beach called "Surfboard House" that had rental boards, big freakin' heavy things with the word "Rental" painted on the bottom with a number on it. My neighborhood friend's dad was a city of Miami Beach cop and he got us the board for free. We'd take the Miami bus system down to South Beach, get a rental board and take turns. The Miami Beach wind chop was good for learning. My first board was a 9'6" Royal Hawaiin (yellow and blue) that was in horrible condition. I "rode" that for a couple of years before getting my first new board, a 9'6" Harbour Banana model. $125.00 + $10.00 shipping.

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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

eibla- I agree with your take on Joe also. I used to wonder how he got along with his fellow SoBe'rs being a Christian preacher living in what amounted to a Jewish ghetto. Do you also remember 5th street gym and going up those stairs and watching an unknown boxer by the name of Cassius Clay, later to be known as Muhammed Ali, train under the careful eye of Angelo Dundee. The whole scene of humanity there at that time had to be lived to be believed.

 

 

Sure do! Angelo had some palooka sitting on a stool at the bottom of the stairs collecting a dollar to watch Clay train. Yeah, it WAS a Jewish ghetto back then. Many of the old art deco hotels were falling apart. How about the break at 21st St by the Gayety Burlesque theater? During the cold front swells it would break like a point break off the groin there. SERIOUS sweety boy beach, it was like walking a gay gauntlet or something.

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Chuck Dent's 9'6" Gordon & Smith, at "Ray Bay" (the power plant) in Seal Beach, 1961.

eibla- 21st street was quite a scene also.  Just making a decision to drive that far from SB, 21 blocks, took major consideration.  It was always so comfortable and easy parking at SB and if you got there early enough you might get a spot in the lower level out of the sun or even the front row.  But at 21st it was street parking with a meter to consider, toting your boards sometimes a block or two, and usually it was flat.  However I did catch it good there once or twice. How about 63rd st ???????????????????  Maybe we should start a new category about SB and S FL surfing------- surfly

@eibla, @surfly -- You guys grow up in MB? What era?

I was born and raised in Miami. Left after HS in 1968. My family home was in "Westchester" around Coral Way and SW 87th avenue. Started surfing SoBe when I was 13. Used to pick up the bus at the end of my street toting my 9'6" Royal Hawaiian. Make the bus transfer in Coral Gables over McArthur Cswy, reverse it to go home. At 15 I saved up and bought one of those surplus 3 wheel Cushman mail carts. The one with approx. 3' X 3' X 3' boxes in back. Outfitted with those old Aloha roof racks. Wouldn't go over 40 mph but enough to get me and a buddy (stuffed in the "box" up and down the beach Hallendale to SoBe. Even drove it up to Ft Pierce a couple of times going US 1 the whole way. Finally destroyed the thing by rolling it on Alhambra Circle in the Gables, lucky I didn't break my neck!

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Streets, tried to PM but your not set up to take them I guess. Anyway here's a response to your PM. Damn...I used to Cabana Boy/lifeguard at the Old Caroline Hptel up by the Fountainbleau and Eden Roc. A good friend of mine's uncle was the pool deck manager, guy named Pat Malloy who was also buddies with Murf the Surf. I think Pat is still kicking. Mostly during Christmas and Easter breaks when it was crowded. I don't remember the 5 O'Clock Club...but I'm sure my 'ol man did. He worked all the parimutuel tracks and frontons in the city, Including Miami Beach Kennel Club, Tropical Park (near where we lived) Hialeah, Gulf Stream. You name it. He worked in the money rooms, back before computers took over the whole industry. He knew everybody...including THESE guys...(push nose to side and push one ear out). I also worked Hialeah and Gulfstream as a "money runner", making change for the ticket sellers at the windows behind the line. Used to see Meyer Lansky and other "notables" of the field. Since I had the run of the lines they used to send me up to the curtain cloaked little room where the $100 tickets were being sold to find out who those guys were betting on. A neighbor friend who started surfing with me had a father who was a fairly well known City of Miami Beach detective named Emery Zerick. He knew the guys who ran Surfboard House and we got a free rental board to bob around on. Mr. Zerick was some kind of martial arts expert and was also some kind of WW2 hero, or so my father told me. After I flunked out of college and came home, and before I got drafted Mr. Zerick helped me get on the Miami Beach patrol. I was a college level swimmer and surfer so passing the test was no big deal. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I had gone back to that and retired from the Beach Patrol...Oh well. There's a guy on the forum here named John who is a retired Miami Beach lifeguard. You have to remember the Forge restaurant on Arthur Godfrey road? It was rumored to be mob owned at the time and around '70 - '71 a close friend of mine was a bar back in there. One night while he was working the bar a gunman came up behind a guy sitting in the bar and put a couple of .22 rounds in his head and dashed out the door. I forget the guys name and what happened afterwards but my buddy said "Nobody saw Nothin'." Of course they didn't!

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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 -
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@eibla --- Interesting. Sounds like you came onto the Beach scene a half-dozen years after I'd moved to California.

I remember the Forge, mostly from when it really did have a forge out on what became the patio. Used to get my hair cut at the barber shop on the other side of the Sheridan theater, then we'd go to the Forge so my mom could meet friends for a "cocktail." This had to be in the early-Fifties. During the Sixties, it was mob-run. They did a huge remodel in the late-Sixties ---moved the lounge up to the front, built the wine cellar and a small room for private dining on the east side of the building, made it all very posh.

Lanksy was something of a local when I was a kid, a fixture, an everybody-knows-him, but nobody-mentions-his-name kind of guy. I'd see him at the Ambassador cafeteria on Washington just below Lincoln; he'd ask how I was getting on, and tell me to "Say hello to your dad, okay?" (MB was a small town, everyone pretty much knew everyone else, and my dad did have a couple of joints that were popular, so. . .)

My first job was as a cabana boy at the Fontainbleau; two bucks a day, $4 on Saturday, for picking up towels, laying out lounge matts, and fetching pitchers of ice water for the guests. Usually cleared between ten and twenty bucks a week in tips (a quarter here, a quarter there, every now and then a buck, that sort of thing). On Sundays, I dived in water shows for Barney Cipriani, made four bucks a hotel, usually did three shows.

I don't remember an "Old Caroline Hotel," but I do remember a Carillon up on 68th and Collins, just north of the Deauville. There wasn't much but huge estates north of the Eden Roc, not until you reached 63rd and the Lombardy and Casablanca hotels.

Miami Beach was a different place, a paradise, really, back in those days. When the "season" ended, it was a sleepy town of maybe ten or twelve thousand. Things ---hotels, night clubs, restaurants--- were pretty much boarded-up for the summer, and those that could got out of town.

Good memories, for sure.

I looked up the murder in the Forge. I remember it as being earlier than it actually was, 1976. Richard Schwartz, who was Lansky's step son shot and killed his friend over a bar tab! The guy he shot was "connected" so A few months later Schwartz was found murdered in his car behind a restaurant he apparently ran while out on bail for the murder charge. I never spent a summer in Miami. Like I said, my father worked the horse tracks and come summer the northern tracks were running. He'd work in either Michigan or NY while me and my brother would get shipped off to my grandparents Dairy farm in Rhode Island to shovel cow shit out of the milk barns, amongst other things. The upside was the farm wasn't far from some very good surf breaks in Rhode Island. Surfing was almost non-existent in RI at that time and I surfed alone most of the time except when going to see my cousin in Newport. Even then there was rarely more than a handful out in the water.

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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 -
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I actually grew up in Homestead and started surfing SB in 1964.  By the early 70's I was living in a huge old Florida house on the edge of the glades in a communal environment.  Two downstairs rooms, living and dining were turned into shaping and glassing rooms.  Every weekend was up to the coast eventually turning into trips to the Bahamas, Hatteras, 10 winters spent in PR, 2 years living in Santa Cruz, late 70's in Costa Rica plus other Carribbean islands and now live in my beachfron home here in Mel Beach at the ripe old age of 64.  The time flew by.  One big long tube ride.

     Pray 4 Surf

           surfly

Sound like one 'O them damn long hair hippie freaks to me!!

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LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1966 or so- Freeport, Tx.... ( Surfside Tx) My Dad had a biker friend from Daytona named Roger Ormescher( sp) - he was a painter as well- painted bikes/ hot rods etc..... He had a Hansen that I was just enthralled with looking at every time we went over to his house in Freeport. I begged the both of them to take me to the beach and try this surfing thing out. They did so- Roger pushed me in to a little soft Texas shore foam and I stood up and grinned all the way to the beach. Mom and Dad told me later - in my adult years- the looked at each other when they saw that grin and went "OH CHIT" ............I have been surfing ever since.....46 years!!!!!! Thanks Mom and Dad!

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yep...I was born and raised in Miami also. I grew up in N Miami Beach. Mostly surfed at Haulover and Sunny Isles. Mom got my first board for me when I was 11 from JC Penny, Velzy pop out. Rode the bus to the beach, kept the board at Mann's shop. Went down to SoBe quite a bit. I had a Hy Cycle mailcart. Spent 3 weeks in Parkway Gen Hospital thanks to the 3 wheel instability. I had several boards latter including Surfboard House. I discovered Oceanside around 1969 or so. Miami had gone to shit by around 70 or so. Left High School and moved to CB. Went to BCC and worked at Alma's. Most of the people I hung out with were Sofla transplants. I moved to Cali in 75, looking for a better wave. Then back to Miami from 75 to 78.

One of the best surfers I ever saw in Miami was Doug Deal. I grew up with Doug Wright. We both moved to Cocoa Beach about the same time. 2 of my friends that I grew up in Miami with moved to Cocoa Beach when I did in 1970: Stan Wing & Dan Jones. Both are still there.

Must have crossed paths....



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So if you are a surfer I wish you the prosperity that allows you more time to pursue the salt water dream, and the true happiness that comes from warm water, clean waves and the companionship of your fellow surfers. If you are an internet troll just spewing bs then f off.

I was on vacation from NYC in Lavallette New Jersey, 1986. I saw boards in the local surf shop and was intrigued. Two years later, I bought my own board, and haven't stopped since...

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Who needs a better life?

Mama G - You say your sister was the first female surfer in her area. I will be working on my forth East Coast Surfing Documentary next year and looking for some of the first female surfers to interview (as I have done in my other movies). If interested, please pass on contact information. You can see information about my latest movie, Board Shorts as well as the other two on my web site http://www.surf64.com .

The East Coast Surf Museum will be premiering Board Shorts on Nov. 17th at the Cocoa Beach Library

Thanks

Will Lucas
will@surf64.com

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Where There's a Will, There's a Wave (sm)

Edited: 10/30/2007 at 04:30 AM by surf64

I just saw this post, Will. I'll be glad to share the info. She was quite an amazing surfette (and still is!)

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"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!" Dr. Seuss

My first board was a 7.0' G. Lopez Lightning bolt. Got it for $20 at a garage sale when I was 12. Had the board until I was 17 and sold it for $50 for gas money back from spring break. I could kick myself every time I think about selling it. That board was a classic, beat to hell, but a classic.

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o wow

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Toobs and Boobs!!

Surfjet from sun and surf surfshop in Ft. Lauderdale. Every board had a big flower near the nose.

Roger Ormesher,friend of my Dad, and his 9'6" Hansen , Freeport Tx I was 9 yrs old ,1964

Late 50's. Lavallette, N.J

Charlie Keller and Jimmy Crecca (lifeguards) riding styrofoam epoxy boards. Richie Baron on a wooden Tom Blake style hollow board.



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Panama City Beach circa 1981 across from the U-Turn-Sunburn-Saloon on 98. A guy had a longboard out and was doing some crazy stuff...including putting his dog on the board with him (dogs were banned a few year later on all the beaches) I thought it was very cool!

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Outta time!

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First encounter would've been with a high school classmate, circa 1965, Delaware.

in the 60's, I was walking in knee deep water and a surf board slammed into my back, knocked the wind out of me and gave me a scar that I still see 40 years later.
The guys name was Pyle surfing in Indialantic...

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I know it was 1966. a board washed in to the beach on the South side of Sabastian Inlet. My whole family was there, and my mom pulled the board out of the surf and dragged it up. My grandma stood on it and waited for whoever owned it to come in which took some time. Finally a couple of kids convinced her it was their board an she gave it back to them. Mom thinks it was a Velzy, but she's not clear on that.

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It was 72' for me and I was in 9th grade in Tampa ready to ditch class. Some older friends came and picked me up and we headed down to Bradenton Twin Piers to be exact. My first board was a Hope Surfboard which I was told came from Cocoa Beach, anybody remember them? It was a fish about 5'10" super wide with a busted nose which was repaired to make it look like a big bullet. It cost me $15 bucks and a couple of doobies.

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Hope or Hobie?

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"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!" Dr. Seuss

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.

Wow...Mikee...that was probably my brothers shop, Banzai, or Pier 66. Later would have been Sol Surf Shop.

I went to school with and surfed with the afore mentioned "choppers". I also hung with Dennis Clay who was at the time one of the best HS age surfers around.

My first glimpse at a surfer, or attempted to be surfer was my best friend when we were learning. Circa 1962. We were riding a pop-outs made by Jim Campbell from Melbourne, and shaped by Doug Haut who is now in Santa Cruz, still kickin'.

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"You know some people are different now ain't that a cryin' shame, but wouldn't it be a real drag if we were all the same."

If it was shaped by Doug Haut and glassed by Jim Campbell..it was NOT a popout! If it was made in the early '60's it probably was an Inter Island as Haut, Campbell AND Mike Diffenderfer were shaping there at the time. Though I wasn't in Central Florida at the time I guess it is possible Haut/Campbell did make some boards in the area at one time.

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John Kenneth Galbraith

Edited: 12/22/2008 at 12:50 PM by eibla

Cambells were sold locally in the CB area.



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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.

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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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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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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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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There is water at the bottom of the ocean

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 -
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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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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

just talked to Chip , lives near ponce and still surfs ( surfed south fl. in 6o's

moved here in 70, what happen to skinny english , do you know ?

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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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.

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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