Gary Green
Posted: June 11, 2019 at 10:15 am
Mr Smooth” Gary Green competing back in the 80s photo Chris Stroh
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Brian Jackson ’59
Posted: June 11, 2019 at 10:12 am
Brian Jackson (furthest right) and his mates with some early balsa boards photo taken in ’59. Photo courtesy of Jackson Surfboards
Posted in General
Lizard Lawson
Posted: June 11, 2019 at 10:10 am
1983 Elouera Beach. Lizard Lawson. Brightly coloured wetsuits and boards were the “norm” in the 80’s. Tim Vanderlaan Photo
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Shane Pringle
Posted: June 11, 2019 at 10:06 am
Young Shane Pringle at The Dunny Bowl ,gone but not forgotten photo Chris Stroh circa 80s
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November 1956.
Posted: June 11, 2019 at 10:03 am
Sunday, November 18, 1956, Greg Noll and members of the US surf lifesaving team where in Australia to compete in the Melbourne Olympic Games, arriving in Sydney they were first taken to Cronulla for a wave.
With them they brought the first balsa wood Malibus and when they paddled out at The Point, Cronulla instantly became the birth place of modern surfing in Australia. Pic Brian Keane and American Tom Zahn enjoying the moment.
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Peter Clarke Single Fin. 7ft 4inch.
Posted: January 28, 2019 at 11:34 am
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Brian Holman ’76
Posted: January 28, 2019 at 11:31 am
1973 Many Surfers were sailors. Brian Holman and young crewman with the timber “VJ” on the roof racks of the Valiant “Safari”. Check out the Wanda Sandhills in the insert photo. Tim Vanderlaan Photo Collection.
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Popout ’76
Posted: January 28, 2019 at 11:24 am
January 1976. Shark Island. Back then, a young Gerry Manion and a couple of others had Shark Island to themselves. Most surfers thought the place was unrideable and just too dangerous to ride. Tim Vanderlaan Photo.
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Mark and Jack
Posted: January 28, 2019 at 11:23 am
Mark was out surfing one day in 1993 as a big swell came in from the South. It had been raining for days and on that afternoon the sun came out.
Mark didn’t know it at the time but Jack Eden took a walk to the point that afternoon, one of the only times he used his camera since retiring.
A couple of months later one of Mark’s friends, Doug Robson was walking along the Mall – Jack had a display of some of his photos and Doug noticed from the corner of his eye, this photo of his friend Mark, or MR as his Cronulla Point Board Rider friends call him. The photo had been labelled ‘Mark Richardson’. Doug alerted Jack to the incorrect name, in that it is Mark Rogers to which Jack changed the name. Doug rang Mark to tell him the photo was there, hence to say, Mark raced down and bought it.
So there you have it, a Jack Eden, signed photograph, of my husband Mark 😊 from Anna
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Peter Stone ’68
Posted: January 28, 2019 at 11:13 am
Pete Stone, Cronulla Point, photo by Norm Harris (1968)
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