50s – Page 20 – Surfing Down South

1958 Surfari to Avalon Point Mandurah

This 1958 image shows City Beach Board Club members on surfari to Avalon Point at Mandurah. The boys were seeking better shaped waves…

2012 photo of SW surfing pioneer James ‘Lik’ McKenzie in Dunsborough with a 1958 marine ply hollow surfboard. Photo courtesy of James McKenzie.…

1957 Brian Cole (18) surfing City Beach groyne (northside) on his homemade 10ft hollow plywood Malibu surfboard. In 1961 Brian and his…

1958 Yallingup campsite Don Bancroft on trumpet with Artie Taylor and the boys on the hill. Image courtesy of Brian Cole .

1957 SW surfing pioneer Dave ‘Globehead’ Williams with his monogrammed Malibu balsa surfboard on Yallingup Beach. In the late 1950s Dave, Terry…