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Midget Farrelly and Makaha Trophy, December 1962.
Photograph : Ron Church
Reprinted in Australian Longboard Magazine June 2004 Page x

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The SURFER  BI - MONTHLY  U.S.A  VOL 4 NO 1, 1963

The SURFING WORLD Monthly MAGAZINE  Vol 2 No 1  MARCH  1963

Lester Brien, Cresent Head, NSW, circa 1963.
Photograph  By  Tony Denoon
Surfer Magazine, Volume 4 Number 1
February - March 1964 Page 63

Surfabout Volume 1 Number 4 1963 Cover: Rusty Miller, Sunset Beach by Dr. Don James. Page 3: Formation of ASA, with Midget Farrelly. Surf registration to be 3 pounds. Photograph of Wal Carle's 1928 redwood  surfboard, and still manufacturing in 1963, compared with the modern Hydroplane designed by John Kelly and  Woody Brown. [Jack Eden]: Sand Shoes, photographs of Frank Latta, John Wheels Williams and Alan Dorman. Desmond Muirhead: Hawaii, from his surfing book Surfing in Hawaii. Early surfing in New Zealand, Bing Copeland and ? visit from California in  1959, Gordon Woods made under licence, also Plasticraft and Quane Surfboards. Portfolio of International Surfing Bob Weeks: North Narrabeen, Bob Kennerson (centrefold), Midget Farrelly, Danny Keyo, Scott Dillion, and Bob Pike. Rodney Waldeck, photographs by John Arnold: Boomer Beach, South Australia. 1963 South Coast Championships, South Australia: 1st Brenton Walters, Bill Johnson 1st Juniors, Malcom Lock- biggest Wipeout.

Norm Casey Surfboards, Rockdale.
King Surfboards, Kirrawee.

Flashback . . . The Board of '28! The surf board of 1928, according to specifications on record, was a 9ft, slab of well seasoned, coarse-groined redwood tapered at the bow and stern. A major drawback of course was its extreme cumbersomeness. Mr. Wal Carle, Snr,, a surfboard manufacturer since 1928, told SURF-ABOUT that these boards retailed at £2/-/-  "plus a tin of varnish." (Top right): One of the typical "slab type" redwood surfboards of 1928   taken at Bondi, NSW (Bottom  right):   The surf-board of today. A radical stepped-bottom Hydroplane design­ed by John  Kelly and Woody Brown.

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Surfing World Monthly June 1963 Volume 2 Number 4 . Cover: Micky Dora, photograph by Mick McMahon, wins a Haminex Pratki automatic 35mm camera. Bob Evans: Boggingar Is Too Much Bob Evans: The Butter Box, surfed since the 1940's by greats such as Bluey Mayes Midget Farrelly: Avalon Contest, Nat Young 1st Juniors, Chest Board 1st Rod Stumpter,Bob McTavish on the microphone and disc jockey. Photograph Contest Winner (Keyo custom made surfboard): Alby Falzon. Shelly Beach Midget Farrelly: Keep in Trim- "those little hot dog boards 8' long by 22" wide will get into all sorts of trouble." Mike Hickey: We Found Hickey! (European champion 1963) Advertisements Bruce Brown: Water Logged, and tee-shirts (Bare Foot Adventure),  Slippery When Wet  LP sound track by Bud Shank. Beachwear by Hollywood Gordon Woods Surfboards BMC: Morris 850 ... yabbadabbadoo

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1963 Duke Kahanamoku - Guest of honour at the 1963 Australian Championships, Bondi Beach, 22-23 November and promotional work for K.G. Murray Publishing Co.'s The Australian Sufrider.

Surfing World Magazine October 1963 Volume 3 Number 2. The Birth of Board Riding, chapter reproduced from Reg S. Harris' Heroes of the Surf, Manly Surf Life Saving Club.      Alby Falzon: Look North Man, with Nat Young , Bobby Brown , Kevin Platt and Speed Gordon. Stomp Stuff, LP albums reviews of My Son the Surf Nut, Hello Melvin, The Lively Ones: Surfing Drums, and The Surfaris: Wipeout. Narrabeen, featuring Denny Keogh, Wayne Burton, Russell Hughes.. Bob Evans: Elusive Currumbin. Great Surfs of Australia: No. 3 Bondi , photographs of Kevin Brennan, Robert Kaneally (sic, Conneely), Chris Brock. Honolulu Fever .  Cartoon Surfing Down South at Warilla, Bobby Brown, map by Bisso. Advertisements King Surfboards Keyo Surfboards Bud Browne: Gung Ho! McDonagh Surfboards, Pipeline Surf Wax with high  grip formulation. Ron Surfboards, the ''fastest'' board made. The 1963 Surf Spectacular at the Sydney Stadium with music by The Bee Gees, The Atlantics, The Telstars, Laurel Lee, The Hall Brothers and The D-men with guest appearance by Midget Farrelly.

Surfing World November 1963 Volume 3 Number 3. Cover: Crescent Head. Dave Condon: No Man's Land, [Dee Why - Long Reef] [Bob Evans]: Australian Invitation Championship 1963, includes an aerial photo of North Narrabeen Great Surfs of Australia- No. 4 Dee Why, photographs by Ross McKelvie include Midget Farrelly, Bob McTavish. Surfing World Mural: an aerial photo of Fairy Bower to Long Reef Surfs of South Australia, photographs by Tom Ransom include Bill Johnson (State Junior Champion), Kings Head, Seaford, and Middleton Bay. New Zealand's Piha Film review: The Angry Sea by John Severson Broken Head, includes a photograph of Nat Young Bobby Brown: Valla Surf Beach Artwork: painting by Stan De Teliga

Australian Sport and Surfriding 1964

Surfabout Volume 1 Number 6 1964 . Note that the cover indicates Volume 2, a misprint. Cover: Nat Young in Hawaii . Dave Milnes: Surfing the Pier at Bellambi [Bob Evans]: Spotlight on Hawaii, includes photograph belly boarder Lee Tingle. North Narrabeen, photographs include Midget Farrelly. Reg Blunt: South Africa Tony Burgess: Western Australia Bob Weeks: Shelley Beach Pearl Turton: Girls Surf Talk Toes on the Nose, includes photograph of Dewey Weber, USA. Advertising Barry Bennett Surfboards John Rhodes, featuring a 7 stringer balsa-redwood reverse T-band.

Surfing World January 1964 Volume 3 Number 5. Cover: Nat Young, Winner of the Invitational Australian Surfboard Championship. John Pennings: Great Surfs of Australia- Bells Beach Bob Evans: Some Great Riders of '63- Midget Farrelly, Jack Bluey Mayes, Peter Troy, Robert Connelly, Scott Dillion, Kevin Platt, Rodney Sumpter, Bobby Brown and Mick Dooley Avoca surf beach World Championships a Complete Farce, Makaha Contest, with Mike Doyle winning the paddle board race on a hollow balsa wood American Surf breaks Surfing World Girl: Kristine Binning John Pennings: Mona Vale Advertisements Ron Surfboards King Surfboards Bill Wallace Surfboards Midget Farrelly sunglasses Surfboards Hawaii H.G. Palmers: Transistor Radios by Kriesler, Philips, AWA and HMV Ampol Surfboard Wax Bruce Brown: Water Logged BMC: Morris 850 ... yabbadabbadoo

Surfing World February 1964 Volume 3 Number 6. Top Beaches of '63- Palm Beach, Back Angourie, Crescent, Woolgoolga, Coogee etc Toes on Nose Tandem, Warriewood Drop Advertisements 2UW (Radio) Dale Surfboards- Custom Built by Les Patterson and Dave Passenger Mick Simmons Kennard Racks

 

1st World Surfboard Titles Program, Manly, NSW, Australia May, 1964.   Reprinted in Australian Longboard Magazine, June 2004.

World Contest area, Many Beach, May 1964. Photograph by Ron Perrott Surfer Volume 5 Number 4 September 1964, pages 42 and 43. Sponsored by Ampol Petroleum Limited in conjunction with the Australian Surfriders Association.

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Three Distinct World Contest Cut-Backs (on multi-stringer boards), Manly, 1964. Right: Midget Farrelly Below: Mick Dooley (Joey Cabell paddling). Below right: Nat Young Photographs by Ron Perrott Surfer Volume 5 Number 4 September 1964, pages 39, 46 and 47.

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1964 World Tittles Awards, Many Beach, 17th May 1964. From left : Wayne Cowper, Robert Conneely, Nat Young, Mike Doyle, Midget Farrelly, Joey Cabell, Phyllis O’Donell, Linda Benson. Photograph by Ron Perrott, Nat's History (1983), page 96.

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Women board-riders were a rarity in 1960s magazines, sponsored riders even rarer. Nancy Nelson, Makaha Champion 1962 and 1963. Harbour Surfboards, California. Surfer, April 1964 Volume 5 Number 2

Surfing World  March 1964 Volume 4 Number 1 . Cover- photo by Ross Mckelvie Centre spread- Wayne Cowper, Palm Beach. Surfing World photo contest The Young Wave Hunters. Mollymook, photographs by John Pennings Alby Falzon: Blue Bay Butterbox The Fairer Side of Surfing Kennett's River, including Pat Morgan Big Surf in Hawaii, photographs by Tom Keck including Jeff Hakman, Sunset Beach.

Hobie Alter and Motorised Surfboard, California, circa 1965.

Surfing World July 1964 Volume 4 Number 5 . Brownwater (Collaroy) Internationals at Angourie Photo Contest Winners: Scott Dillion at Fairy Bower, Body surfer by G. Ramsey (wins a Keyo Paipo Belly board) Werri Beach Controversy at Currumbin, breakwater proposed. Diamond Head, NSW Woolamai Beach Bisso Cartoon  Centre Fold: Advertisements: Surfriders Board Shorts by L. and J. Platt Dale Surfboards Casben board shorts surf and swim-beach wear . Keyo International Custom Surfboards. McDonagh Surfboards Scott Dillon Surfboards. Morris 850

Surfing World Volume 4 Number 6 August 1964 . Cover: Wayne Burton Surfman 1964 (wake boarding) Bob Evans and Bob Cooper, photographs by Mal Sutherland: Byron Bay Surfer Girl: Jenny Falzon Interview: Wayne Burton, top shaper at Keyo surfboards Dave Jackman: The Big Safari Hawaii Mona Vale Basin Lurline Bay, photographs by John Pennings Ian Wilson, text and photographs: Flynn's Reef Alan Godfrey: Pakiri Beach, New Zealand. Vintage Surfboards: Vic Tantau with a 1926 solid redwood and Dick Gerrard's American hollow plywood, 1936 (below). Sufer Questionnaire Advertising T-shirts: Gordie Surfboards, Dewey Weber Surfboards, and Joe Quigg Surfboards . McDonagh Surfboards Hang Ten Surfboard Wax, tested by Mike Doyle and Linda Benson.

"The two boards in the photo on this page are the oldest relics in Victoria. They took Vic Tantau four years to find. The 1926 solid red­wood is one of the four originals shap­ed off the first surfboard to be intro­duced into Victoria by Manly surfer Sprint Walker in 1926. Snow McAlister and Sprint Walker, both good NSW boardriders, each had one of these solids in 1926. The board has now been restored to top condi­tion and has been presented to Tor­quay SLSC as a show-piece. The other board, a 1936 hollow, is made of 1/2 inch planks with a vee bot­tom with a small long flat fin. This board was shipped back from Cali­fornia by Torquay surfer and Olympic Games wrestler Dick Gerrard. Dick visited America en route to Australia after competing at the 1936 Berlin Games." Right: Vic Tantau with a 1926 solid redwood and Dick Gerrard's American hollow plywood, 1936. - Surfing World Volume 4 Number 6 August 1964, page 26, adjusted. Note: The solid wood board, and possibly the other one, were destroyed when the Torquay clubhouse burnt down in the 1970s.

Surfer Volume 5 number 4 September 1964 Surfer Tips Number 12- Dewey Weber: Ding Repair Orange County Pictorial, includes full page art work cartoon comic style map by Rick Griffin (17 pages?) . 2 page with Interview: Midget Farrelly, Australian World Champion. Ron Perrott [text and photographs]: Australian World Contest, including an aerial photo of the contest as the centre fold (9 pages). The Fantastic Juniors, interview with Jeff Hakman, Corky Carroll and Mark Martinson titled (8 pages). Duke Boyd: Pipeline Cannons  Pistols & Big Surf, 2 page article on big wave board design and photographs of featuring balsa-redwood, Bob Simmons laminated wood sandwich constructed in the late 1940s, current Hot Dog,  Hawaiian semi-gun,  and a balsa wood Elephant Gun. Ageless Peterson Tandem Surfing Championship, with Micky Munoz, Mike Doyle, Linda Merrill. Comic strip: Murphy and the Surf Spy part II. Skateboarding with Herbie Fletcher Advertisements The Challengers (surf band), with Rick Griffin art work. Hobie Skateboards. Surfer Products.

Surfing World, Vol.5.  No.2. October 1964.   Cape St. Francis, Ugh's Reef- the locals call it Green Knob, John Monie, Whale Beach Wedge, Little Avalon Reef Hawaii. Advertisements Bud Browne: Locked In! Bruce Brown: Endless Summer Farmers: Makaha Surfriders Shop, City, Gordon and Miranda Fair. Midget Farrelly Surf Skate Keyo Surfboards McDonagh Surfboards Scott Dillon Surfboards, new factory and showroom almost completed.

Surfing World Vol.5 No.3. November 1964, Centrespread: Angourie Alby Falzon: Lennox Head- a great surf of Australia Yagen Griffiths Point Sandshoes Cronulla Boardriders Club Advertisng Dunlop, page 19 Bruce Brown: Endless Summer.

Take Off On Dunlop! Dunlop Hand Surfa. Advertisement Surfing World Vol.5 No.3. November 1964, page 19.

Mary Tyler-Moore, California, circa 1962.

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1968 Kahanamoku, Duke With Brennan, Joe:  Duke Kahanamoku’s World of Surfing
Angus and Robertson Publishers Sydney , Australia 1972 2nd Edition  A&R Paperbacks, Sydney , Australia

1970 Margan, Frank and Finney, Ben R. :  A Pictorial History of Surfing
Paul Hamlyn Pty Ltd, 176 South Creek Road, Dee Why West, NSW 2099.

1964 Pollard, Jack (ed.):  The Australian Surfrider
K.G.Murray Publishing Co.P/L,142 Clarence Street , Sydney Australia

1972 The Best of Tracks   (Vol. I) Editors : Falzon, Albert; Stewart, John; Grissim, John. :
Tracks Publishing Co Pty Ltd. P.O. Box 178 Avalon, NSW.
'Bob McTavish’s Personal History of Surfboard Design – Pods for Primates Parts 1' (pages 120 – 122).

1997 Warshaw, Matt : Surfriders – In Search of the Perfect Wave
Tehabi Books, Inc. Collins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022

1978 Warwick, Wayne A Guide to Surfriding in New Zealand Second Edition
Viking Sevenseas Ltd Wellington, New Zealand

1979 Young, Nat ; Photographs by McCausland, Bill: Nat Young’s Book of Surfing
A.H. & A.W. Reed Pty. Ltd. 53 Myroora Rd, Terry Hills, Sydney.

1983 Young, Nat with McGregor, Craig : The History 0f Surfing
Palm Beach Press,40 Palm Beach Road, Palm Beach NSW 2108 

1972  Surfing World. Volume 16 #4.  Bob Evans : 'remember the time when...' pages  30 to 35. 

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Positively 4th Steet- The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina.
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 38 Soho Square, London, WID 3HB, 2001, page 189.
Farrar, Srraus and Giroux, 19 Union Square West, New York 10003 I.