Did not need to be rich. A working class lifestyle would have enabled you in that era to enjoy all of that. A Ford Mustang in that era cost $2400 which in today's money would be about $6000. The average income in that era was about $7500.
The 60s were the greatest. Huntington Beach houses for $20,000. New Mustangs $2,500. Guns sent right to your door. But the batteries in the 60s absolutely terrible.
I can remember learning to surf in 62 north oh Huntington Beach pier about 1/2 mile up at oil wells. I lived in San Francisco and was very lucky that my sister and husband bought their first home onEstary lane. After flying down during this yrs it was 11:99 on way to lax and than be driven down to Huntington. So the next dAy after pulling out all my paper route money they had a few sharks devoted to selling used boards,wax,decals, wet suites. In 62 I bought my first long board I was 5'2" the board was a Harbour it was no joking 10ft 2in 2 bars of wax and was set to go. my brother in law came with me to the water. THIS started at 8:30 I stayed in the water until 1:00pm. the next dAy about 11:00am waiting in the water I kept looking at this man and his wife. finally I just walked up to him and said are you Paul Butterfield he had sAid yes and I told him I saw his show at the Avalon Ballroom 2 weeks previous. I asked for his autograph and that was the ballroom Chet Helms owned/operated his girl became excited. It took me all summer to learn to surf. I changed boards to a. YATER with a concave nose and Rennie Tater was the first to apply SLIP CHECK...The old days...
I loved going to The Casino in Avalon in the 60's. I also spent a lot of time at The Rendezvous Ballroom near my home in Balboa. I remember seeing Paul Revere and The Raiders at the Rendezvous, and Paul Anka at The Casino. It was sad when the Rendezvous burned down I think in 1968 or so. I spent my time surfing mostly at Newport and Huntington Beach piers, plus on weekends surfing south, San Onofre, San Clemente, Point Loma and all beaches in between. Plus I loved body boarding at The Wedge. And when I didn't have use of my parents cars, I went everywhere on my skateboard. It was a great time and place to grow up.
@@nicolewatterson2893 Call me what you want. Growing in Southern California where surfing and skateboarding was popular along with surf music. I had a fun childhood. I was the same age as those kids skateboarding in the video. Lots of us kids looked for rides in the neighborhood to go to the beach because we too young to drive. I had a lot of good memories.
internet and video games have their own benefits though, growing up with flash games was pretty great. i respect it though. it was definitely a different world.
@@bighands69 I like the 60’s surfing culture. Growing up here I got into surf guitar. I also had my skateboard. I was not so much into surfing. My sports were skateboarding plus water and snow skiing. I remembered I had the blue and white stripe T-shirts along with a red and white stripe one. I think all these sports are cool. When this was filmed I was about 10 years old.
ha ha I started surfing in 64 dam its funny looking back used to drag my over 8' board to the beach and repair it once a year resin was so cheap R3.50 for 5 litres and we got reject blanks for R7 an made our own sticks. dam good times still surfing at 65 but short boards now and materials so expensive its cheaper just to buy 2nd hand boards on ebay. surfs up gremmies.
A bud and I got a couple of blanks from Foss Foam in Santa Ana(?) and some glass and resin. We shaped them ourselves and when we laid up the top deck, we used a couple of Red Mountain Wine labels as the board decals. Took them out to the HB Cliffs and rode our brains out. You are correct! Those **were** the days!
Video from the 60's and 70's all have one thing in common!! N0 Fat people. The funny thing is, there were no gym chains on every corner. Fast food basically wasn't invented yet and people did things outside all the time. Most people didn't lift weights they were just active all the time. So glad I was born in 1962. We had so much fun going up and playing with my friends every day outside till your parents called you home. Now you don't see kids outside much?
Thanks, I'm glad you get it, Most don't. It's a lot of work to find, transfer, upload etc. Get booted off RUclips, start over and over again. Just trying to keep the STOKE alive and save our History
My parents made the team wear for Jacks in the video here they were the end skate team...the neon yellow with black trim and embroidery, ..Surf King by Rogers..wow it is so cool to see these outfits..I set the grommets...dad and mom had a shop in the first block of Main Street in Huntington beach, and dad was best friends with Jack....Jackie Baxter was a dream..the night I finally got to go out with him...my dad busted me..I was 16 and had a crush on Jackie for about 2 years...we were all at the surf meet in 66' what a blast that was....
That's Hermosa Beach. The house with the large picture window looks like one I lived in in 1975 -76 We had he back apt at $ 165 a month split between two people....
Footage most likely shot in late-1963 or in 1964. Windansea Surf Club (jackets in beach crowd scene) wasn't formed until the summer of '63 and the board styles - especially that early tunnel fin - help confirm. Jackie Baxter is still a grom and smiling Thor Svenson didn't become Windansea's executive director until after the club was established. My guess ... 1963 US Surfing Championships at Huntington Pier.
check the groovy band and the FENDER GUITARS and AMPS...this is where Stevie Ray Vaughn got it from. Them Malibu boards WOW.. All them old American brands were big in Australia too.
Don`t know that particular announcer, but some of us are big fans of high-powered 60`s auto- sports and dance-show announcing. A personal favorite, Jimmy O`Neill from SHINDIG!
Dewey Weber Surfboards just up the street. Afterwards, were all going to POP or maybe farther north to Santa Monica to catch a band st the Aragon Ballroom on the SM pier. Wanna come along?
Good to see the younger skateboarders. They are the younger baby boomers of the Joneser Generation (ie: born late 1950's to early 1961) "they were expected to keep up with the early baby boomers later in life despite a drastically changing world and economy).
Born and raised in California, always wanted to experience this! I should learn to surf... but shark attacks have been rising 😅 Anyway, listening to the Beach Boys led me here haha. If only time travel was real!
I surfed so cal for over 30 years. Maybe a few sharks 🦈 cruised by but my buddies myself and I know of bo one who was attacked by a shark. Juvenile great whites have increased but the eat fish.
I used to have breakfast at Juicy James’s cafe right across the street from the Biltmore after surfing at the pier. That place always gave me the creeps.
In another universe I want to be born in 1950 in California into a rich family that support all of my surfer lifestyle
Did not need to be rich. A working class lifestyle would have enabled you in that era to enjoy all of that.
A Ford Mustang in that era cost $2400 which in today's money would be about $6000.
The average income in that era was about $7500.
@@bighands69 nonsense, $2,400 in 1966 is about $23,000 in 2022.
Farq Yea!
@@TheOrphicLyre BIdenomics!!
The 60s were the greatest. Huntington Beach houses for $20,000. New Mustangs $2,500. Guns sent right to your door.
But the batteries in the 60s absolutely terrible.
Excellent, thanks so much for the flashback!
This was my life at 11 y/o, explains a lot 😎
Skating & dancing filmed at 16th st Hermosa. Hb Biltmore hotel shown in one shot. Love it
hey surf styly74
massive thanks for letting this stuff out and not just sitting on it in your vast archives!
you are da man
SO COOL!
Same here. I so wish I was born 30 years before I was
I can remember learning to surf in 62 north oh Huntington Beach pier about 1/2 mile up at oil wells. I lived in San Francisco and was very lucky that my sister and husband bought their first home onEstary lane. After flying down during this yrs it was 11:99 on way to lax and than be driven down to Huntington. So the next dAy after pulling out all my paper route money they had a few sharks devoted to selling used boards,wax,decals, wet suites. In 62 I bought my first long board I was 5'2" the board was a Harbour it was no joking 10ft 2in 2 bars of wax and was set to go. my brother in law came with me to the water. THIS started at 8:30 I stayed in the water until 1:00pm.
the next dAy about 11:00am waiting in the water I kept looking at this man and his wife. finally I just walked up to him and said are you Paul Butterfield he had sAid yes and I told him I saw his show at the Avalon Ballroom 2 weeks previous. I asked for his autograph and that was the ballroom Chet Helms owned/operated his girl became excited. It took me all summer to learn to surf. I changed boards to a. YATER with a concave nose and Rennie Tater was the first to apply SLIP CHECK...The old days...
I loved going to The Casino in Avalon in the 60's. I also spent a lot of time at The Rendezvous Ballroom near my home in Balboa. I remember seeing Paul Revere and The Raiders at the Rendezvous, and Paul Anka at The Casino. It was sad when the Rendezvous burned down I think in 1968 or so. I spent my time surfing mostly at Newport and Huntington Beach piers, plus on weekends surfing south, San Onofre, San Clemente, Point Loma and all beaches in between. Plus I loved body boarding at The Wedge. And when I didn't have use of my parents cars, I went everywhere on my skateboard. It was a great time and place to grow up.
The Year I moved to Huntington Beach and got my first skateboard
Wow. People in the 60s were very into surfing. No wonder why there are even songs about lt produced during that era.
3:50 and 4:47 these dudes were going so hard for the camera lmaoooo
Good stuff i could have never experienced
love it
05:57 "haha f*k it. can't waste this wave for nothing."
Can anyone tell me about the skegs at 7:46? A weird idea that didn't catch on?
Rick Gregg or Woody Harrelson LOL?
No one had Long Hair Yet🤔
it wasn’t invented yet lol
@@astr0sauce 😅
No tattoos. No cell phones. No lardasses.
Cellphones ruined youth. Head down ignoring the here and now.
Love the 60's glad I was a kid growing up during that time period. No internet or video games.
Ok boomer
@@nicolewatterson2893 Call me what you want. Growing in Southern California where surfing and skateboarding was popular along with surf music. I had a fun childhood. I was the same age as those kids skateboarding in the video. Lots of us kids looked for rides in the neighborhood to go to the beach because we too young to drive. I had a lot of good memories.
@@nicolewatterson2893
You do not think surfing is cool?
internet and video games have their own benefits though, growing up with flash games was pretty great. i respect it though. it was definitely a different world.
@@bighands69 I like the 60’s surfing culture. Growing up here I got into surf guitar. I also had my skateboard. I was not so much into surfing. My sports were skateboarding plus water and snow skiing. I remembered I had the blue and white stripe T-shirts along with a red and white stripe one. I think all these sports are cool. When this was filmed I was about 10 years old.
Some of these cats are in fact out of sight man.
I'm 66 grew up surfing at HB . And I'm very grateful for that.
Wow. How fortunate are you! I was in the USAF w/ a couple of Cal guys. One was a surfer from just north of SD. Flip flops w/ socks in winter. 😅😂
No junk food , fun and active all day , born 59 🇦🇺 Cronulla beach
Come on, dude. Those people lived on mayonnaise, Jell-O and hotdogs.
@@ibodhidogmamay have but were active. We all were then. This gen its all hanging out doin' nothin'.
Real boss. Neato
ha ha I started surfing in 64 dam its funny looking back used to drag my over 8' board to the beach and repair it once a year resin was so cheap R3.50 for 5 litres and we got reject blanks for R7 an made our own sticks. dam good times still surfing at 65 but short boards now and materials so expensive its cheaper just to buy 2nd hand boards on ebay. surfs up gremmies.
A bud and I got a couple of blanks from Foss Foam in Santa Ana(?) and some glass and resin. We shaped them ourselves and when we laid up the top deck, we used a couple of Red Mountain Wine labels as the board decals. Took them out to the HB Cliffs and rode our brains out.
You are correct! Those **were** the days!
So that makes you 71 now hope you are still surfing
Video from the 60's and 70's all have one thing in common!! N0 Fat people. The funny thing is, there were no gym chains on every corner. Fast food basically wasn't invented yet and people did things outside all the time. Most people didn't lift weights they were just active all the time. So glad I was born in 1962. We had so much fun going up and playing with my friends every day outside till your parents called you home. Now you don't see kids outside much?
We had the Best!😮
Thanks, I'm glad you get it, Most don't. It's a lot of work to find, transfer, upload etc. Get booted off RUclips, start over and over again. Just trying to keep the STOKE alive and save our History
Epic footage loved it 66 was the yr I was born , but only started surfing 3yrs ago aged 55 yeeew 🤙🏻
What a great video...!!! Wonder where everyone are today...
My parents made the team wear for Jacks in the video here they were the end skate team...the neon yellow with black trim and embroidery, ..Surf King by Rogers..wow it is so cool to see these outfits..I set the grommets...dad and mom had a shop in the first block of Main Street in Huntington beach, and dad was best friends with Jack....Jackie Baxter was a dream..the night I finally got to go out with him...my dad busted me..I was 16 and had a crush on Jackie for about 2 years...we were all at the surf meet in 66' what a blast that was....
very cool
My friends Kit Foyle and Bruce Logan were on skateboards in this clip. Thanks for posting.
I remember HB in the 60's sloppy surf cold & windy but that was home
Look how beautiful the woman were... No fake boobs, no collagen and no liposuction..
Women were Great back then! 😎
I still have my 9'2" Velzy with a redwood and mahogany stringer, Surfboard of Champions
born in the wrong decade
Is it just me, or chicks in the 60's were hotter than today? :3
yes they were! naturally hot
Absolutely
is because of the bikini haha
I agree
Because they gave a damn about their appearance and acted feminine
That's Hermosa Beach. The house with the large picture window looks like one I lived in in 1975 -76 We had he back apt at $ 165 a month split between two people....
Lyndon St. ? 52 Strand??
Footage most likely shot in late-1963 or in 1964. Windansea Surf Club (jackets in beach crowd scene) wasn't formed until the summer of '63 and the board styles - especially that early tunnel fin - help confirm. Jackie Baxter is still a grom and smiling Thor Svenson didn't become Windansea's executive director until after the club was established. My guess ... 1963 US Surfing Championships at Huntington Pier.
I really wished I lived back in those times.
Notice there aren't any "secretary spread" butts on the girls; no fat guts on the young guys either.
Everything is cool. 🤙😎✌
The ladies young and old look awesome in their bathing suits in this super 1966 surfing & skateboarding & bikinis video!
When women were women! 😎
Nice to see fellas were snapping their elastic waistbands even back then, and the girls were smiling and swatting their hands away.
1:30 classic! Boinngg!
such a cool video. Man, has surf culture has changed. Huntington beach gets like that during the summer, but it's just not the same...
Californians....before drugs became their top priority
Ten minutes 20 surfers for the heat🤪
Back when hips were covered
you got a problem with hips?
is beutiful America
Love the shindig on the beach with the band!
Where are the super size people?
That's my father in there.
Up the Toon!
"Checkin' out the local talent. " lmao :)
This video is fantastic! Is it in the public domain? Just want to check with you before using part of it in a video project.
check the groovy band and the FENDER GUITARS and AMPS...this is where Stevie Ray Vaughn got it from. Them Malibu boards WOW.. All them old American brands were big in Australia too.
Don`t know that
particular announcer, but
some of us are big fans of
high-powered 60`s auto-
sports and dance-show
announcing. A personal
favorite, Jimmy O`Neill
from SHINDIG!
I need time travel
Got my first surfboard in1966. A Velzy pop-out.
Dewey Weber Surfboards just up the street. Afterwards, were all going to POP or maybe farther north to Santa Monica to catch a band st the Aragon Ballroom on the SM pier. Wanna come along?
w00 h00! groovy stuff!
tandem at the pipe? you sick?
Good to see the younger skateboarders. They are the younger baby boomers of the Joneser Generation (ie: born late 1950's to early 1961) "they were expected to keep up with the early baby boomers later in life despite a drastically changing world and economy).
The economy of the US is not as strong as it once was but is still the best economy to live in the world.
How American --- happy young people having a great time.
Born and raised in California, always wanted to experience this! I should learn to surf... but shark attacks have been rising 😅 Anyway, listening to the Beach Boys led me here haha. If only time travel was real!
I surfed so cal for over 30 years. Maybe a few sharks 🦈 cruised by but my buddies myself and I know of bo one who was attacked by a shark. Juvenile great whites have increased but the eat fish.
What tune is at 4:30?
Those abs doh
Very groovy
Dora
Those guys in surf shops. Lmao!
Those cats were out o site!
Who is that dipstick announcer?
I'd like to see a tandem event at pipeline.
dudeee 4:00 dudes all classic got the moves like jagger lol
Great stuff! Thanks for keeping it retro & real!
El Squatto moto?
wow, this is so cool.. longboards rule..
What beach is this? ....kinda looks like Manhattan Beach or Huntington Beach?
Huntington
Hermosa Beach Pier and the strand I lived there and recognize the buildings
Huntington always had the US Championship contest in the 60s, but there have been a few responders here saying its Hermosa.
Huntington?
What beach ? Huntington?
I didn’t post this comment ^
Then who did ?
I have no idea
Style points? Yup you know it!
true legends
awesomeeee.... Thank you.
man, that all looks like fun!
It was!😎
Could that have been a young Mike Purpus at 00:15?
Lol, Ricky Gregg was getting some "action" later on that night.
wow 60´s!
I used to have breakfast at Juicy James’s cafe right across the street from the Biltmore after surfing at the pier. That place always gave me the creeps.
Are you local in HB? Would love to do an interview/vlog with you.
Loved this clip...anyone know where I may find a DVD copy?
yeah, the video beat.
bruh why would you want a dvd it’s free here
Calgon! Take me away !! 🙌🤙🙌🌊
Nice video
Great year!
This doesn’t even seem like real life
It was Real. Great times. Today sucks.😮
0:45 thats a time in jail and even a minute of fame in the local news if done now haha.