The Glory Days of Surfing, when lineups were uncrowded and surfers were real

[PonoBill]

From Mike Vaughns facebook page. I remember those days. I mentioned that Kenaha looked like Malibu after Gidget and got some blank looks. Of course it doesn't.

Okay everyone, turn right. Damn, 314 people dropped in on me.

[Glider]

where can I get copy of that pic ?  Looks like the first time I saw a beach in Komakura in Japan 1973.

[Reid SUP'd]

hahahaha thats funny, i had to repost that on my local surfing msg board

[Scottiver]

That's a great pic. Misery loves company.
Here's a recent pic from China.

[SoCalSupper]

those are both great pics!-and they both remind me of Sano in June.

[Piros]

That's an amzing shot when was it taken Bill

[raf]

That looks a lot like a cropped image from the Guinness world record "most on a wave" event in South Africa in 2009

http://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/2304-more-than-100-surfers-riding-one-wave-enter-guinness-world-records

[PauHanaTX]

Not Gidget era.  Looks like they're all in wetsuits to me.

[808]

I think this was when they were trying to break the world record for the amount of people on 1 wave.

[addapost]

The China one looks like there are about half a billion people there.

[808sup]

From Mike Vaughns facebook page. I remember those days. I mentioned that Kenaha looked like Malibu after Gidget and got some blank looks. Of course it doesn't.

Okay everyone, turn right. Damn, 314 people dropped in on me.

    That's obviously a left!                                                                                                                                                     

[PonoBill]

I think it is from the guiness attempt. There's lots of pics from Malibu in the 70 that look a lot like that, I just stumbled across that--there wasn't any caption or attributiion