Iconic. RIP Mr. Brown.
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Even if you aren’t into surfing, Endless Summer is a great film. RIP.
Iconic. RIP Mr. Brown.
A great film.
Say what you will about The Endless Summer and like films but remember; it all started with Gidget.
It was summer 1967 was 16, a so so surfer from the Pacific NW. Mom, Dad and I were on vacation in San Fran.
One night I snookered them into going to the movies to see some film called “The Endless Summer”. They laughed so hard and loved every minute.
Thanks, Bruce, for the great family memory.
Enjoyed his film. RIP.
I was just starting surfing when “Endless Summer” came out. I loved that movie. RIP Bruce Brown.
“Should’ve been here yesterday!”
Great quote from the movie.
My first date with my wife was to a surfing movie. Could easily have been a Bruce Brown flick. It very likely was.
I loved it. She was unimpressed but something clicked - we went out the next 4 nights in a row and we were married less than a year later.
So I’m sending a Thank You Note to Bruce Brown. We will miss you. Even my wife.
Endless Summer is the best surf film of all time and one of the most movies ever. RIP.
Love that movie!
RIP Bruce. Bruce was a true rebel and a genuine all-American nonconformist.
I saw that movie when I was quite young. They played it at the “Free Show” in our village. Sitting on a blanket in the Free Show lot with a bread bag full of popcorn and a bottle of Coke on a beautiful, warm Summer evening. Good times.
The Endless Summer was one of only two movies I remember from seeing all those Free Shows.
RIP.
Although very interested in the surfing scene at the time, I somehow missed this movie in ‘66 when it came out.
I did, however, see it a couple of years ago (TV). And for the 90-odd minutes the movie lasted, I found I was back in 1966, a 17 year old without a care in the world, getting ready to head off to college.
It was great!
And like a previous poster stated, it was (is) a reminder of just what America was like at that time.
We need stuff like that, reminders of that from whence we came.
Wish I had recorded that when it came on...
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The clothing and sports styles and interests for young people, have been heavily influenced by surfing culture, etc. “Extreme sports” came from these origins.
Surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding have spread around the entire world.
It began in the 1950s with a small cult of watermen (and a few girls) in SoCal and Hawaii.
Actually a guy named George Freeth brought surfing to California from Hawaii, in 1907.
BTW there is a follow up film, titled “Endless Summer II” in 1994, also by Bruce Brown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endless_Summer_II