Nostalgia is a bittersweet emotional state. It combines a sentimental, affectionate longing for the past—often an idealized period or place—with a slight, wistful sadness that those moments cannot be relived or recovered. Source Cambridge Dictionary
Each day seemed to last forever in the sixties, when the coast was paradise, uncrowded, undeveloped, when there weren’t a lot of surfers and you knew practically every person who surfed.
Back then you could get a couple of hours of sleep, work, surf, play all night and shake it off. Can’t do that anymore – now you put in a short night, and you ache the next morning.
Those were the golden days.
We thought those summers would never end. (Extract ‘the winter of frankie machine’ by Don Winslow).
Mick Marlin
Dunsborough septuagenarian surfer Mick Marlin was part of the surfing boom (surf movies, surf music, surf magazines & surf wear) in the Golden Sixties, a period of artistic experimentation, social changes, and post-war prosperity.
1962 Narrabeen NSW grommets heading to Collaroy with boards loaded on their bike trailers. Photo surf movie legend Bob Evans RIP. L-R John Martin, Dennis Kennard, Rick Taber, unidentified, Mick Marlin, Frank Hetherington & John Courtney.
1963 Mick Marlin surfing North Narrabeen NSW. Photo Bob Weeks.
Click on link to view 1960s North Narrabeen memoirs by Mick Marlin
Thanks for sharing Mick.
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