Chris Iredale

Posted: August 9, 2011 at 8:19 pm

This shot was taken at Voodoo in the late 70’s of Chris Iredale. This was the same day refered to in an earlier post when after getting caught inside by a set  my mat that I was shooting from went sailing to Bundena. Chris ended up fetching it…. see older post for the long version .  Photo Stroh.

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Dog 80’s

Posted: August 9, 2011 at 8:06 pm

This shot from early 80’s was of young Richard Marsh when he was riding for Daniel surfboards and Peak wetsuits . It was snapped on a sizeable day at one of Cronulla’s lesser mentioned spots photo Chris Stroh

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Greeny

Posted: August 9, 2011 at 7:59 pm

Gary Green, fresh faced back in the days when he was winning everything. Circa mid 80’s photo Stroh.

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Occy ’83

Posted: August 9, 2011 at 7:55 pm

Occy appeared in this Peak Wetsuits advertisment in Nov  ’83. The photo was taken at Wanda by then Tracks senior photographer Peter Simmons.

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Barry Regan Pioneer Surfer.

Posted: August 9, 2011 at 7:47 pm

Heres a recent pic of Barry Regan(white cap) one of Cronullas first pioneer surfers from the 50’s and early 60’s. Back then he was a member of South Cronulla Surf club.  The photo was taken at the Wood Board day at Currumbin, August 7th 2011. To read a  interview with Barry see:
http://mypaipoboards.org/interviews/Paipo_Interviews.shtml#Barry_Regan

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James Bickerton

Posted: August 9, 2011 at 7:40 pm

Bicko was one of EBC top boys in the middle 80’s and a renown grommet torturer. As part of the Bando rd Garage gang Bicko was a regular sparring partner with Glenn and Shane Pringle. Today Bicko lives in France.This pic of Bicko in the Dunny Bowl photo Stroh

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Banks Wins Om Bali Pro ’81

Posted: August 9, 2011 at 7:16 pm

Jim Banks enforces his creditials as one of the sports best tube riders with his win in 1981 at the Om Bali Pro held in solid waves at Uluwatu. The story and cover shot appeared on Tracks July 81 issue.

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Tim Vanderlaan ’74

Posted: August 8, 2011 at 6:16 pm

Tim Vanderlaan and home made ’spear board’, 1974 .I asked Tim to tell me about the boy and the board.Photo of Tim taken in front of the family home at Wanda, Cronulla. It was early 1974 and I’m displaying my first home made board. My older brother Rick and myself made the board and bought the materials from Graham King’s home at Grays Point. The blank and materials cost me $33, that was a lot of money considering the milko i helped do morning deliveries paid me $1.25 for 3 hours work.

The board was 5′10″ and 13″ wide. My brother read somewhere that the width of a board should be the measurement between your nipples plus 2 inches.We had seen magazine shots of Terry Fitz riding something similar at sunset in hawaii and we thought the spear shape would work at a Wanda beach break. I persisted trying to ride it for ages but Icouldn’t turn the thing. I later sold to to Max Garlings of the Benz shop in Cronulla. He had the board on display amongst all the bikinis. (big thanks Tim Vanderlaan)

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Incredible World of Tubes.

Posted: August 5, 2011 at 2:41 pm

Shark Island featured in Tracks special fold out poster No2 edition called Incredible World of Tubes in ’85. The gnarly cover pic was by Greg Button.

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Mystery Surfer 60’s

Posted: August 5, 2011 at 2:32 pm

Heres one from Dags for the Sixty crew, a bit of a game “can you name that surfer”.
We had a mate with troublinG Bladder ,but first we must set the scene !!! we used to drink at the Cecil..it was about 150 metres down hill to our sleepinG Bunks in the board shed.so friday nights we would be drinkinG Beer , mostly with the Jannali boys , hitcho, daisy,bernie frankie ,and dags and birdshit. now every now and then one would be missinG But would be back shortly. dags ask wheres daisy and they would say gone to confession. so these strange confessinG Buggers would amuse dags was not R.C. and did not one for hocus pokus. and these were the surfinB Buds who found $3 shagginG Brothel in darlinghurst,now i know  you know who this is!!,of course the story is not over,,
10 pm closinG Bar bit early for us ,so we took a walk thru town and then down to surfinG Board shed. we looked around and noticed missinG Budie. some ratbaG Bludger said maybe the cops would know where our mate with troublinG Bladder. was. so trottinG Back up town to the cop shop.!! wellthe cop said yeah we got your surfinG Brother and he is stayinG Behind bars tonight and if you anoyinG Bastards dont piss off,you ill be goinG Behind bars.too!!!so we went back to surfinG Board shed and did not see our mate till sat !!!so know he has to tell us about his adventure.!!he said he was bustinG Balls for a leak, and he was in the park having a pee against a tree , so these effinG Bastards in plain clothes ,each grabbed hin by elbows lifting and said ” watcha doinG Bodgie “.  i am having a piss our mate said ,whats the effinG B usiness of yours ?? well, they said ,were the fuzzinG Bastards and youl come awltzinG Bad boy with me !!!!well this story has to end somewhere so i really hope you found enough clues to i.d. or mate with the worryinG Bladder and if you failed i can only say   DUH !!!dags over and out

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