Greetings, Shredderz! Few things go together better than surfing and psychedelic art, and here’s a classic late 60s O’Neill ad bringing that combo that we all know and love. O’Neill was founded in 1952 (which kind of blew me away, to be honest), and the text in the ad refers to the fact…
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Greetings, Shredderz! We’ve got a few sleds with San Diego roots that have been posted online recently, and I thought I’d feature them here. Up first we have a 6’10” Encinitas Surfboards twin fin, apparently shaped in 1980. It’s still up for sale online somewhere, and no, it’s not on Craigslist. Happy hunting….
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Greetings, Shredderz! Here’s a cool Maui and Sons ad from the 80s featuring a young Luke Egan. Note how Tom Servais is credited for the photo at the bottom — would be curious to see the original shot the artwork was based on. Not sure who did the artwork. I know Rick Rietveld…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Filmmaker Ryan Thomas’ “Temporal Collections” is now available for free, streaming on Red Bull’s website. Check out my original review of the movie here. If you didn’t catch it when it was first released, I highly recommend checking it out. It’s one of the more thoughtful and interesting full length surf…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Per the title, here are two random Donald Takayama boards that I recently saw listed online. The first is a 5’6″ Donald Takayama Larry Bertlemann twin fin. I’m guessing this one was shaped in the late 90s or early 2000s, as the signature on this board matches the style that I’ve…
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Greetings, Shredderz! While I’m not very knowledgeable when it comes to Australian surf history and shapers, I’d like to think that I make it up with enthusiasm. And trust me, there are few boards I get more stoked about than Terry Fitzgerald‘s iconic Hot Buttered shapes from the 70s — doubly so when…
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Greetings, Shredderz! As summer comes to close (for us Northern Hemisphere residents, anyway), here are some hits from IG over the past 30 days or so. First, we gotta start with the classics. Gerry Lopez. Pipeline. Photo by Jeff Divine, whose talent I cannot possibly describe in a single sentence. I am not…
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Greetings, Shredderz! I’ll be honest with you guys: I am feeling very under the weather at the moment, but sadly the content salt mines never close. It’s another Thursday night here in California, which means that I gotta post another vintage surf ad, regardless of the wretched state of my sinuses. Here’s a…
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Greetings, Shredderz! There’s been no shortage of rad surfboards for sale recently, and that’s certainly the case when it comes to this 80s Ben Aipa quad that is currently listed on eBay. You can check out the original listing here. This stick is in shockingly good condition. The dims are 7’10” x 22…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Isn’t it amazing that good old Craigslist remains one of the great sources of historic surfboards? There is a killer Dru Harrison and Barry Kanaiaupuni Pintail Gun currently listed for sale on Craigslist in Orange County. I’ve only seen one other example of a Rick Dru Harrison & Barry Kanaiaupuni Pintail…
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