Steve Core Surf Shop

Steve Core turned a former doctors surgery into a thriving empire in the 80’s opposite Munro Park near Cronulla station before relocating to where Pure Sea now stands in the main street today.

Spike

The caption read…Richard James slotted. Throughout the late 70’s and 80’s Cronulla was blessed with plenty of surfing talent and also plenty of great surf photographers. Very few beaches can claim the amount of talented water photographers that Cronulla has produced during this period. Peter Simons who took the classic shot below of Spike was one of the best.

 

Dog S.W. Cover

Richard Marsh was one of Cronulla’s most successful surfers throughout much of the 80s and 90’s competing on the pro tour and maintaining a Top 16 position for many years. When Dog was back at home the first hint of a south swell and he would be heading south to a certain reef near Nowra. This day featured heavily in Surfing World Volume 202 saw  Dog and Occy and a full crew hit Aussie Pipe going off. Dog scored the fold out front cover. Photo Bruce Channon.

Gary Hughes 81

Tracks January 81. Gary Hughes scores the cover of Tracks during a session at The Point. The start of the colourful 80’s saw the old school rule of black wetsuits only go right out the door. Photo Peter Simons.

Jim Banks

In the 80’s Jim Banks began his serious travel adventures disappearing to exotic wave locations in uncharted waters all around the globe. Banksy would  return  home with great tales of wave discoveries and adventures inspiring countless other surfers to hit the highway. This pic styling at home while planning his next tubular odyssey photo Stroh.

Greeny and Simo

Throught the 80’s Gary Green and photographer Peter Simons hooked up on many occasions to come up with the photographic goods. From memory this shot of Greeny smacking off the top for Piping Hot  was taken on a trip to the desert region of South Oz.

Emerald 80’s Adv.

Bong Boys

This is definitely the colourful early 80’s when Occy, Banksy and unknown Alley grom graced the pages of Tracks in a Billabong adv. Photo Uncredited.

 

Familiar Faces

This photo appeared in Tracks early 80’s and was photographed by Peter Simons. It was captioned “Familiar Faces”. The boys are hanging out at Sandshoes. There’s Ross Marshall, Bob Liddell, Steve Griffith and Fig among the crew chilling out.

Peter Simons

Simo below put many of Cronulla surfers on the map during his stint as staff photographer for Tracks throughout the 80’s. Peter was a fine all round photographer who honed his skills on the reefs around Cronulla. He  flooded many issues with Southside images which was a welcome change to seeing just Northside riders and there waves.  Cronulla had so much talent and wave potential and it was Simo who brought it to print.