Something Incredible Surfboards
Posted: August 16, 2017 at 10:33 am
Something Incredible surfboards built by Darrell Eastlake (sports commentator) and John Rhodes in Caringbah ,NSW. The board now belongs to the Eastlake family in Byron Bay.
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Proposed Surfboard Ban
Posted: August 16, 2017 at 10:15 am
Surfboards riders were enjoying the waves all the way fro North Cronulla to Wanda up until about ’67. When the Elouera Surf Club building appeared suddenly the best banks at “Midway” between Wanda and Elouera were declared off limits for surfboards. School boy Martin Newbery was part of the protest with several letters sent to Sutherland Council. Surfers regained the right to surf midway again in February 1968.The reply letter from the Council.
” The clubbies were totally taking over the Cronulla surf scene with the need to put their stickers on your surfboard. It was the time of revolution. Council just listened to the established organisations on the beachfront. It was a time of change as free surfing life challenged the establishment just like what was going on in the USA as the ” hippies ” took on the governments at Washington State University etc during the Vietnam war debacle. Black rights, Woodstock, Haight – Ashbury, all happening in the summer of love.The Stones, Dylan and The Doors were pumping out the music which went with the sentiment of youth fed up with the old order” said Martin of the event.
Bobby Brown Memorial Contest ’68
Posted: August 16, 2017 at 10:01 am
The first Bobby Brown Memorial Comp held at Elouera and finals at Sandshoes. Program courtesy of Martin Newbery.
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North Cronulla
Posted: August 16, 2017 at 9:47 am
North Cronulla looking North along Prince street in the 60s photo Bob Weeks
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Norm Casey
Posted: July 17, 2017 at 10:17 am
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Wanda Sand Dunes 1965
Posted: July 17, 2017 at 9:52 am
Sand drifting across the road in 1965
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Wanda Beach ’68
Posted: June 24, 2017 at 4:56 pm
1968. The surf craze of the sixties was in full swing at Wanda Beach. Tim Vanderlaan Photo Collection
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Bob Weeks Book.
Posted: June 24, 2017 at 4:30 pm
Images from the book “Surfing in the 60s”.Old Northies and Wanda Dunes. photos by Bob Weeks
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Jacko ’64
Posted: June 24, 2017 at 4:05 pm
Flat day fun with Jacko behind the wheel ’64 photo Bob Weeks.
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Amoco Garage 1962
Posted: June 24, 2017 at 3:55 pm
Across from the Police Station on the Kingsway this servo was self serve you could put 20 cent pieces in after hours…
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