Chapter: 4
Ten-Year Boom
- Gidget the All-Powerful
- The Rebel Next Door
- Hobie vs Velzy vs the IRS
- Better Surfing Through Chemistry
- Summer on the Inside
- Surf Fashion, Lightly Salted
- Surfing the Newsstand
- Process of Elimination
- Oil City Showdown
- The Jazz Stylings of Phil Edwards
- Technicolor Surf Boom
- Heroes and Villains
- Blackball Blues
- Dick Dale, Destroyer of Amps
- Surfing in Five-Part Harmony
- Tokyo to Tel Aviv
- Flight of the Larrikin
- Bob Evans Means Business
- Midget Wins It All
- But Will it Play in New York?
- Houses of the Holy
- We Own the Sidewalks
- Beautiful from any Angle
- Duke's Big Contest
- Can You Handle the Penetrator?
- Girls, Don't Panic!
- David Nuuhiwa Walks on Water
- An Invincible Summer
Flight of the Larrikin
Surfer-rocker fight, Sydney, 1963. Photo: Bob Weeks
Bondi Beach, 1962. Photo: Bob Weeks
Sydney stomp, 1964. Photo: Ern McQuillan
Bob Pike (left) and Dave Jackman, Dee Why, 1963. Photo: Ron Perrott
Aussie surfers with okinuee boards, 1957
During the second half of the boom, Australia put surfing on a developmental fast track that made the rest of the world look slow and pokey by comparison. It was a remarkable turnaround. As late as 1960, Aussie boardriders were still well off the pace being set in California and Hawaii. Four short years later, Sydney hosted the first World Surfing Championships, and local surfers were very much on...
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