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PS: Bud Brown was always shooting film around that time period. Clarence"Mac" Maki as well. One or two more photogs too, but I can't remember there names .. sorry
Peter - Val Valentine was shooting then - still and movie!
Great to see Shoyu's name - bent knees at afternoon backlit Makaha!
aaaaahhhh Midget..... My old Friend ... I hope your well!! Thank you so much! Val Valentine is who's name escaped me. "Mac" could be found at Waikiki during the summer month's of the South Shore swell run, certainly Makaha & Haleiwa during the winter season. "Bud", is one who you'd recognize easily because he was so tall and hunched over his camera shooting movies or stills. Later, you'd find him in the water with you, bodysurfing a few waves and taking still black and white photo's. "Val" always had a smile on his face, very accomodating and talkitive, stoked, might be a good word.
Gilbert "shoyu" Kawamoto. Another local surfer who began surfing Queens. He and another guy, Steven Tengun always hung around together, as we all did at the Waikiki Dairy Queen then, or just across the street where Barry Kanai'aupuni & I lived in the little gray cottages. Again, with the names mentioned above, during the summer month's, we moved between Waikiki and Ala Moana frequently to test our surfing skills.
You were here in those days with your Aussie crew Midget. You boy's were just down a few houses from us on the North Shore after the Makaha contest. Bruce Brown, Diff, Dewey, Hanson, Paul, Bruce's camerman had the house in front of Pipeline. You crazy's, were just up the road from us. "Dave"bombora" Jackman, Mactavish, Paul Witzig(?) and other names that escape my memory now. I can't remember now if you guys ended up with my Mom's old blue & white Cadillac. It got passed around on the North Shore after I returned to California. It would be cool to hear your side of those magical times, Midget!
Always, a treat for me to have you pop in and add things to help my feeble mind get a kick start and remember things of those days. Your one of the gentlemen, MF, when on a night around a campfire, while sitting on a beach and drinking beers, your hallowed name, would be mentioned. All the best to you My Friend! Aloha Nui Loa, A Hui Hou, Peter
Regards
MF
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