50th Anniversary of The Isle of Wight Music Festival

So what does the Isle of Wight Music Festival of 1970 have to do with surfmatting? Our man Kenny Hughes was there with another legend of alternative surfing, the late John Brockway!

 

                              Globetrotters Kenny and John in Central America, a few years later.

 

Using modern facial recognition software, we were able to pick the two, very young San Diegans out of the IOW crowd with a predicted 99.997% accuracy.

From Greg

 

 

It got a bit better, but my camera battery died.

 

Greg

From Lou

 

 Hey Paul ..

A good mate purchased this in '71 for $25..left under a bed at his mums house ,flat and coated in Talcum Powder..just pulled it out the other day,still in good nick..

 

Think Bob may have purchased a Flyer from you a couple of years ago for his wife..

 

Take it easy.😎

 

LG

From Grizzled Veteran Hazel

 

From Kevin

 

 From Kevin Mirsky. He’s a surfer/artist from Marin.

 Steiny

From Lou -- 1965 Australian Beach Fun

 

From Ward

 

Dear Paul,

Thanks Paul!  Ky and his kid sisters worked last weekend to try and make some mats out of pool floats and a hair straightening iron.  The smell of melted plastic and laughter.  They took them surfing straight away and had a blast except he had to inflate his mat with every set of waves on the horizon.  Ha!  His first version was an old thermarest I had in college.  Before my living room became a wasteland for prototypes I told him to just get the real deal!

Thanks again,

Ward

From Kazuhiko

 

Mystery Event ???

From Brandon

Even with only 55% power on hand, and 22 Brandon Carlsons ahead of him, Brandon still manages to convey is stoke!