Old Joes Milkbar 1990

Posted: March 23, 2015 at 3:57 am

Days before Old Joes was demolished after a fire ruined the top floor. Photo Stroh

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Night Surfing Comp ’84

Posted: March 23, 2015 at 3:52 am

Two nights of Night Surfing April ’84 held at Midway photos taken near John Davey St by Tim Vanderlaan

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Cronulla Street Pre-Mall

Posted: March 14, 2015 at 3:32 am

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Occy ’83

Posted: March 14, 2015 at 3:26 am

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Gary Green ’83

Posted: March 14, 2015 at 3:19 am

Gary Green at The Surfabout Comp back in 1983 around the same time he moved back to Cronulla from the Northside.garry

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Summer City Book Launch

Posted: March 14, 2015 at 3:16 am

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Remember the Aussie movie Summer City by Phil Avalon featuring Mel Gibson in his first feature film about a 60’s surfing road trip. The  re-launch of the book adaptation and Kindle edition  has been re-released on Amazon to coincide with the launch of Phil’s biography later this year.  You can check the Look Inside feature at:

http://www.amazon.com/Summer-City-Death-swinging-Sixties-ebook/dp/B00S3NAV8M/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1426121963&sr=1-2&keywords=summer+city

 

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Cronulla Surfing Walk of Fame

Posted: March 9, 2015 at 10:46 am

Sunday 9th March 2015 the first inductees into the Cronulla Surfing Walk of Fame had their plaques officially unveiled. Located along The North Cronulla end of The Wall. The 8 inductees included Bobby Brown, Occy, Jim Banks, Gary Green, Richard Marsh, Kirk Flintoff, Andrew Lester and Gav Colman.

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wf3 Gary Birdsall, Terry Brown, Gav Colman, Bob Banks Jims dad and Kirk Flintoff.wf4 Inductees and those accepting the awards

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Toothpicks 1955 and 2015

Posted: March 6, 2015 at 1:14 am

tooth1955  The original 1955 Cronulla Surf Club members posing with their Toothpick paddle boards at South Cronulla and below recreating the image 60 years later with some of the original surfers.

to1 Recreating History; (from left) Ernie Johnson, Barry Banister, George Opperman, Larry Perryman, Alan ‘‘Buck’’ Spencer, Ron Casaceli, Brian Keane, Rob Young, Keith Suann, John Salmon, Barry Regan, John Suann, Ken O’Donnell and Kevin Quealy.Photo Chris Stroh

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Ocean Rhythms by Steve Core

Posted: March 6, 2015 at 12:38 am

Steve Core made two 16mm films in the early 70’s, In Natural Flow and Ocean Rhythms both have been recently released on DVD.photo (2)

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Chris O’Callaghan

Posted: March 6, 2015 at 12:31 am

One of the Garie crew in the 80’s ,Chris takes on Cronulla Point. Photo Chris Strohwaterforce

 

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