Thanks for sharing! hard to believe that just 30 years before this Grizzly bears were catching Samon on the beach spawning where San Juan creek flowed out to Doheny.

Precious. So many memories. The guys in the boat appear to be some of the Newport Dory fleet. My parents in their group would stop there to buy fresh fish on our way to water ski at the brand new Newport dunes. They used to have a pirate ship out in the middle of Newport dunes that you could ride a kayak out to and dive off the plank and stuff.

thanks for sharing i love our sleepy little town.

Ya think?

Great man, great video. Got my first surfboard in the summer of 1962. Had to give up surfing in 2019 due to health problems. Live to surf, surf to live...

I took the S.S Catalina from long Beach in 71 with dad. Pulling to the dock there were big schools of fish around the ship. The orchestra played on the way over. Amazing

The skim boarding shots were classic. I remember those wood boards. Excellent footage and commentary.

Is this Mr Wilson? From San Clemente high school. Great video seeing how everything was back then

i wonder if mikey ever knew it was overhead

Queen of Makaha, rest in paradise! Aloha from westside Oahu MK!

So good. I Dewey and i were good friends back in the early days. :0)

What a walk down surfing history.

Had a 9’ Quigg in Hawaii in ‘63. At the time it was a short board and my second board. My first board was a 9’9” Velzy. Surfed the North Shore with them both. I can still remember this one particular wave at Sunset on the Quigg. I got in late dropped to the bottom and turned as the wave was pitching over me. It was the first time I ever got tubed. Loved this video.

Thank you for sharing surfing history. Patti you're awesome. Surfing is not an easy sport. I started surfing in Laguna Beach in the early 80's, and always the only girl in the water back then. Glad to see more women surfing these days.

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Great video of early Dana Point. I was fortunate to surf the area before the marina was built. The Villa motel had a mexican restaurant to recharge yourself after a classic surf session. Thank you for the memories.

Hey Mikey, that's overhead dude.

Wow, shots fired.

Holy crap, I remember watching this show on cable in Dana point when I was a kid.

Thank you for sharing this super cool amazing video.

❤Manhattan beach surf museum. We had the Velzy plaque made, it says. Velez first surf shop in the world. Please visit 😢

great footage. Thank you for sharing 😎

I lived in Laguna and above strands in the 80s.i would surf strands before work then later lived above Victoria beach thanks for the video

cool

The kindness of color by Janice Munimitsu book. 1930-1942. Mexicano and Japanese Farmers Crystal cover Newport Beach.

Goose!! 36 seconds ❤

That skimboard looks exactly like the kind we made in 58 or 60. The board shorts are definitely 60's or later, made famous locally by Mrs. Wilkes in Laguna. We called Me-pees "Fishermans" because a guy pulled his boat onto the sand in that cove. We found a dead surfer under a rock there one morning. There were the remnants of a house with a piano that had fallen off the cliff years before in that cove. We were in the Doheny Surf Club led by Loren Harrison.

Great Panel! Thanks for sharing!

WOW SO COOL!

Mikey that's overhead dude

Can a guy say, sail up to crescent city.. Pick up a friend.. Head back to So cal for the weekend etc etc? Curious how the traffic at sea thing works? Can you hunt for treasure still? Jestfully serious here

Awesome stuff from a salt creek surfer since 1977!

Thanks for sharing that. So fascinating to see familiar places as they were back then.

It would be great to see the footage of the HangTen Ocean Beach 1983 footage, which is at 22:30 to 22:42 on this vid here.

Fascinating. I was born in Santa Ana and started surfing in 1959 at Newport Pier. We surfed "meepees' and 'boneyard' salt creek and eventually church and trestles. Beautiful California history here thank you for sharing.

@ 22:30 - 22:42 is at the OB Hang Ten contest, August 1983.

7:42 was frickin hot,…. don't see that sort of vertical foam glide these days.

Every stroke he took with his saw, adze, and planes was exactly right. The way he knew the feel and story each tool intimately is the sign of a master craftsman.

Right across the street from the Mission, is a taco stand. THE BEST beans I have ever had, anywhere! I believe it's called, "Senior, Pedro's". There's another one in San Clemente.

I used to camp at 1000 Step's Beach in the 80's. Every weekend, every summer. The longest "camp-out" was 7 days. Top that.

"Killer Dana", before the breakwater jetty.

I grew up surfing strands and salt creek, and have heard the tales of killer Dana. I wish I could have seen it pre development. Thanks for providing this.

My first board was a 9 ft Joe quigg , that my parents bought for me for $25 n 1966

Very nice.

My dad Joe Quigg was born a little bit earlier than Dale and they became super good friends surfing together, and Joe's boards were pretty advanced for the times but also had an Artistic glow about them, and Dale became fascinated by the curves and look of Joe's boards. They'd surf together at various places and Dale made some classic observations of Joe's boards after surfing one day and Dale said, "oh Joe, your boards are so beautiful, they look just like beautiful tits! I've just got to make boards like that. Do you mind if I copy your boards?" And Joe said " absolutely not, I'll teach you how to shape them like that". So they worked together, and surfed together, and had a great old time. So Joe was more into inventing one thing after another, and he taught others like Velzy, Hobie and Jacobs how to do it, and those guys that he taught were the guys who mass produced the Joe Quigg look, and Joe was always on to the next best thing, but he was into letting the other guys bring it to the masses, which was in high demand, and one inventor was not going to do it. This was in the late 40's and the very early 50's. And then it was off to the races with Velzy, Hobie, Jacobs, Sweet, and the rest of the start up shaper surf shop owners of the 50's.

Excellent speech on the “birth of professional surfing” and the struggle and sexism that women surfers have experienced.

6:00 Has Christian's Hut from Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). 6:20 Is the Isthmus's civil war barracks, built in the 1860's. 7:50 Angle's Gate Lighthouse AKA Moaning Maggie because of her two-tone foghorn.

I'll take a template!😆🤙

love this. Thanks for sharing! Dana Point will always be home!

I was out at Razors that day. It was a tad bigger...