Greenhills
Posted: June 9, 2015 at 3:11 pm
Bobby Brown, Ross Longbottom , Alan Sharpe and friends prepare for the 20 minute walk over the dunes to get to Greenhills photo Jack Eden
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Bob Weeks
Posted: June 3, 2015 at 9:46 pm
The legendary photographer, Bob Weeks is pictured here surfing in 1995 by Tim Vanderlaan. One of his shots appeared on the record cover “Bombora” by “The Atlantics” featuring Gary Birdsall on a huge Cronulla Point wave. Along with Jack Eden, these two blokes captured hundreds of film images from the iconic sixties surf revolution.
Weeks was born (1940) in Sydney, grew up in the harbor town town of Rose Bay, and was already an adept surfer by the time he moved with his family to a suburb near Cronulla, an Aussie surfing hotspot, at age 18. He’d taken his first photos as a boy, with a Kodak Brownie, and by 1960 he was good enough with a camera to get work as a photographer for the Australian government, at a rocket range in the South Australian desert. Missing the beach, Weeks quit the job after six months, returned to Cronulla, and began working at a camera store.
When the first Australian surf magazines appeared, in 1962, Weeks was ready to contribute. He scored the cover of the debut Surfing World, and got a masthead-listed position at Surfabout. Weeks loved the work, but the money was negligible, and he had to improvise: at late as 1964, he waterproofed his Pentax SLF by slipping it into a clear plastic bag, which he then held aloft as he paddled out into deep water adjacent to the break. Weeks, unlike most surf photographers, had a darkroom and did his own developing, and virtually everything he shot during his early- and mid-’60s heyday was in black and white. Bobby Brown, Keith Paull and Frank Latta were among Week’s favorite surfers to shoot.
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Billy Dews ’97
Posted: May 19, 2015 at 8:43 pm
Billy Dews back in Cronulla for a reunion in ’97. Unfortunately Billy is no longer with us RIP.Photo Tim Vanderlaan
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Billy Dews ’64
Posted: May 19, 2015 at 8:41 pm
One of Cronulla’s best and most underated riders from the 60’s photo Bob Weeks
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Paipo Foam Board ’64
Posted: May 10, 2015 at 1:33 pm
Jim Mcnamara was one of the original Paipo board riders in the area back in 1962.
He shaped a Paipo board in foam in 1964 and glassed at Gordon & Smith. (It was the first foam Paipo board in the Cronulla area) It’s been under the house for 30+ years! Shape was taken from an Hawaiian Paipo board (rose wood), brought to the Cronulla area in 1962. “Only one of its kind at that time, and we shared it” said Jim.
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Jack Eden
Posted: May 10, 2015 at 1:13 pm
The legendary Jack Eden whose timeless photos captured the lifestyle and surfers of the Sixties.
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Scott Topper ’83
Posted: May 10, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Scott one of the best of the Wanda crew taking on Winter Shark island in ’83 photo Tim Vanderlaan
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V Bottom
Posted: May 4, 2015 at 1:51 am
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Jackson Stringerless
Posted: April 25, 2015 at 10:07 pm
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Wayne Roach ’69
Posted: April 25, 2015 at 9:59 pm
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