Greetings, Shredderz! We’ve featured Hawaiian surfer Reno Abellira a few times on this humble little blog. Today we’ve got more Reno for you, this time courtesy of a 1980 O’Neill wetsuits ad, as part of their “Adventures in the Skin Trade” series. (See here for another Skin Trade ad, featuring Shaun Tomson in…
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Greetings, Shredderz! Today we’ve got a quick one for you. Longtime readers may already know this, but every Thursday evening I post a vintage surf ad scanned from my collection of back issues. Pictured above is an O’Neill ad that originally ran in Surfer Magazine sometime in 1980. The ad features Shaun Tomson…
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There isn’t too much to say here, other than it has been a bad week for surf legends. O’Neill is widely credited with inventing the wetsuit and thus changing the sport forever. Pic above courtesy of Santa Cruz Waves.
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Yeah, yeah…it’s not the weekend. But we live in the age of alternative facts, so I’m not going to let something as trivial as accuracy get in the way of giving you a little taste of the coolest vintage surfboards that are currently for sale online. Without further ado, here goes… Skip Frye…
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