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50s photographs

Surfing Rotto in the 50s.

Surfing at Rottnest Island has been a popular pastime since the mid-50s. Cottesloe surfers made the maiden voyage to Rotto by surfboard. Mark…

50s photographs

1958 Barry ‘Joe’ King’s homemade surfboard at Yallingup

In the late 1950s SW surf pioneer Barry ‘Joe’ King rode a homemade 9ft triple stringer polystyrene (Coolite) surfboard glassed with epoxy resin.…

1958 Yallingup camp site with Joe King’s Morris Minor ute

1958 Yallingup camp site with Barry ‘Joe’ King’s Morris Minor ute and the boys under melaleuca trees. Photo courtesy Brian Cole.

50s photographs

1957 Surfing homemade surfboard at City Beach

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

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