G&S ’71
Posted: January 13, 2011 at 11:34 am
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Gary Hughes @ SI
Posted: January 9, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Gary ruled the Shark Island lineup and had that wave wired during the 70’s. Along with Popout, Banksy and Soulman he was one of the first to really take it on. This pic he’s balls deep in a clean Island gem. Photo Stroh
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Max Garlings Surf Shop
Posted: January 3, 2011 at 8:22 pm
Early 70’s advertisement for Max Garlings Surf Shop which was situated in Cronulla main street. Later in the 80’s it became Benz Bikinis.
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Graham King Blanks
Posted: January 3, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Northside had Midget , on the southside we had Kingy pumping out the foam blanks to stock all the surfboard brands and backyarders. Thats Graham below in an Adv from ’72 May Tracks.
Age Store-a-Board
Posted: December 30, 2010 at 7:52 pm
In the Seventy’s you could store your board at the local surf shop for a weekly fee to save taking it home on the train. The Age Surf Shop was across from the railway station and down the lane , later on it became the location for Emerald and then The Shark Island Surf Shop.
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Peter Glasson
Posted: December 27, 2010 at 5:07 pm
This advertisement appeared in Tracks around ’73 featuring local talented surfer/shaper and his board brand Colour of Thought. At one point the surfboards were on display at the BP Garage on the Kingsway.
PT and G&S.
Posted: December 27, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Peter Townend during his time in Cronulla with G&S .Dec Tracks 1973.
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70’s Crew
Posted: December 21, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Here’s a few of the 70’s Cronulla boys, pics were taken by Rob King. Brad Nelson from Southern Comfort. Steve Boris Cronulla Point.Jim Parkinson shaper extroidinare barrel at Wanda. Greg Nash one of the Southern Comfort crew scores a clean barrel
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Gerry “Popout” Manion
Posted: December 21, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Everyone who surfs the Island regularily takes a pounding, even Kelly Slater. Its the nature of the wave, some are perfect barrels and others are mutant ledging beasts that rip boards out from under the most experienced. Guess thats why when you make a gaping tube out there the rush is better than anything. One of the most experienced and go for it chargers in the 70’s and early 80’s was Popout. Gerry was fearless taking on anything the ocean would throw at him. This pic appeared in Surfing Mag in 1980 taken by local photo legend Dave Shaw showing Popout about to cop a solid thrashing on the unforgiving reef.
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PT @ Sandshoes
Posted: December 19, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Peter Townend appeared on the cover of April Tracks in ’76, the shot was taken at Sandshoes when PT was calling Cronulla his home for a while.
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