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Revisiting An Endless Summer (Where Were You in '64?)
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| 07/24/2014
| IAN BUCKWALTER
Posted on 07/26/2014 1:47:17 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen
In 1964 I was shaking hands with Barry and Peggy Goldwater at a rally in the Washington State Pavilion in Seattle.
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:31:10 PM PDT
by
jonrick46
(The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
To: PapaNew
You an east or westsider?
Re: this review - Endless Summer was great - as was its 30 year anniversary follow on film.
BTW I wonder if the writer has considered that its he and HIS generation that has the sensitivity problem.
Because its true. They live in a humorless world where everyone is desperately seeking offense.
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:33:41 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Kid Shelleen
summer of my 17th birthday, working on a farm in Indiana
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:35:48 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Kid Shelleen
I sure as hell know where I was on July 26 in 1968, however......putting on my civilian clothes and kissing Camp Pendleton goodbye. "Free at last!"
I was still a little pissed that 1968 had been a leap year, so the Marine Corps owned me for one extra friggin day.
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:36:53 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign, number sign, or octothorpe. ###)
To: PapaNew
In the navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the navy
They want you, they want you
They want you as a new recruit
To: skeeter
You an east or westsider? You mean in Santa Cruz? No, I lived over the hill on the peninsula.
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:39:21 PM PDT
by
PapaNew
(Freedom always wins the debate in the forum of ideas)
To: PapaNew
Where did you surf?
I didn't start until around 1980, 38th st, The Hook, now at Steamer, mostly. I'm wondering where the spots were in 64.
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:41:14 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: skeeter
Started out a Cowells (inside Steamers) and ended up at the Hook. Loved the Hook, smooth, glassy.
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:43:55 PM PDT
by
PapaNew
(Freedom always wins the debate in the forum of ideas)
To: Kid Shelleen
I tried to see this movie in Chicago with a couple of girlfriends, and we couldn’t get in because we weren’t eighteen. I never did know why the restriction.
To: PapaNew
Its still the best quality, if not the largest, wave in the area.
Darn crowded all the time though. Oh to be there in 64...
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:51:36 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: PapaNew
Lol! High desert girl “surfing” in Santa Monica.
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:55:36 PM PDT
by
Toespi
To: Kid Shelleen
Hickam AFB, Hawaii and DaNang, S. Vietnam
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:56:51 PM PDT
by
anoldafvet
(Close the border!!!)
To: skeeter
They didn’t have a staircase back then so people perilously climbed down the cliff holing on to plant roots and stuff. I was too scared to do that, so I paddled around the west point from the beach on the other side of the point. A lot of paddling.
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:56:59 PM PDT
by
PapaNew
(Freedom always wins the debate in the forum of ideas)
To: Toespi
Cool. Love Santa Monica, but I body-surfed there. Had a ball.
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:58:15 PM PDT
by
PapaNew
(Freedom always wins the debate in the forum of ideas)
To: PapaNew
lol. O'Neill still owns the house right there on the ocean at 38th. We used to see him out in front of it by himself on an old Mal back in the very early 80s.
I still love surfing but it gets harder all the time.
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posted on
07/26/2014 3:00:09 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Kid Shelleen
The year I graduated from high school, turned eighteen, met the girl I’m still married to, more good memories than I can count. But...we just had our 50th reunion and everybody is so freaking old!
I still have a teenage brain much of the time but my 68 year-old carcass won’t let me keep up with it. I suppose it’s just as well.
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posted on
07/26/2014 3:01:34 PM PDT
by
beelzepug
(You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
To: Kid Shelleen
Let’s see, I was down at the creek enjoying my last summer before 1st grade.
To: skeeter
I wish I could. I stopped for a long while, gained some weight, but still got up on a board at Waikiki probably the easiest place to surf anywhere. Later I tried in San Diego, but the boards were so small they just sunk and I had to swim to shore.
I basically boogie-board now and love it.
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posted on
07/26/2014 3:04:21 PM PDT
by
PapaNew
(Freedom always wins the debate in the forum of ideas)
To: PapaNew
I've recently talked myself into buying a 6'5" Haut I can still manage. But once I can no longer I'll still figure out a way to get out there. Maybe bodysurfing.
I will draw the line at SUP, though. No way will you catch me in the lineup with one of those.
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posted on
07/26/2014 3:08:28 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: skeeter
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posted on
07/26/2014 3:11:22 PM PDT
by
PapaNew
(Freedom always wins the debate in the forum of ideas)
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