Surfing Mettams in the 50s
Surfers have been board riding at Mettams in Perth’s northern beach suburbs since the late 50s. Trigg WA nonagenarian John ‘Budgie’ Budge fondly…
Surfing Rotto in the 50s – revisited
Wadjemup (Rottnest Island) is situated 18 kilometres off the coast of Fremantle, Western Australia. Surfing has been a popular pastime on the Island…
All that Jazz
Pioneer surfers visiting the South West in the 1950s enjoyed listening to ‘Trad Jazz’ music on vinyl 78rpm records played on a portable…
1956 Camping at Yallingup
In the 1950s, pioneering South West surfers were known as ‘weekend warriors’. They travelled from the city on weekends and holidays in search…
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