Found this on youtube. Interesting piece that has clips from a surf contest at CB pier 1969.

Good video.  Doing something like that took considerable skill and equipment.  I suppose camera/lens rental was possible back then.  I regrettably didn't start seriously playing with cameras until about four years later.  

My first look at a Florida Atlantic beach was 1971, Patrick.  

Edited: 06/27/2016 at 06:15 PM by ww

classic footage , notice all the Australian pines just south of the pier. Cool to see an absence of buildings too. Surfers in the line up remain the same . Lol

Can anyone name the surfers during the pier contest segment? I think I saw Gary Propper. Could be wrong though. Dick Catri is the surf shop worker showing her the board to rent.

Academy award for hokieness but it was cool to see Dick renting them the board.

And you can see how the ''shortboard revolution'' was going (not very well) in Florida.

Somewhere in there is the makings of a good 70's porn. Music and all.
Was that freesurfs dancing at the pier? lol..

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Oldie, but goody. Ain't that Bruce V at 7:42? And, aint freesurf in there somewhere?

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lol yep me dancing and in a couple scenes.
Classic shots of coach Catri in the shop
very good pic of Bruce Valuzzi
several shots of Benji McRoberts surfing on the S side
Maybe D Pollack on the N side

L to R...
Marc Rhodes, Beak Benner and me


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Nice freesurfs!

as a surfer and historian, i loved that. thank you for sharing. 

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Very cool!

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Ah, religion, bigotry dressed up as morality.

Out of curiosity, how long do you think most of the boards they were riding were? They had a longboard glide, but seemed to be a bit more manuverable/shorter.

What happened to the hawt pier chicks!!??

I was driving around CB this weekend and it looked like a hybrid tv show: whale wars crossed with ink masters

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"whale wars x ink masters" I don't think you'll be doing ads for the CCB tourism council anytime soon.

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Peace, Love and SOUL!

Whats wrong with fat girls covered in tinkerbell tats smoking winstons? Cocoa is still Cocoa.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

1969 was on the cusp of a shortboard revolution, the original fish designs came on at that time.
The irony of that was that boards went from roughly 10 feet in half down to 5.

Classic!

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"It's always better than it looks from the crossover."

Everybody was moving "down" from their 9'6" to an 8'2" mini model. By the end of the year everybody was trying to ride "nose high" boards.

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Hey, larenyon... good question

Popular board lengths then averaged 7'2 - 7'6, all single fins

What you see in the film is that most all of us were evolving from riding only longboards.
We really didn't know yet how to ride a shorter board, except beginning to work a lil more rail to rail in our glide.
And you notice the tendency remaining to seek forward trim.

This followed a brief mini-longboard period of about 6 month.
Then these boards you see here quickly morphed to even shorter but more boxy twin fins.

That's when the real progressive surfing exploded especially from the younger crew who had never ridden a longboard.

...just saying

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Bob,
there's a classic Dick Pollack bottom turn photo from Surfer Mag, circa 1970 at boardwalk that is burned in my memory.
It was a small twin fin swallow tail fish, hence the 10' down to 5' in a very "short" period of time.
Never in surfing history before or since has such a radical design transition occurred.
I remember watching the Fantastic Plastic Machine with George Greenough tearing it up on a kneeboard transitioning us from log to shorties.