ewa beach late 60's

General Discussion
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Tommy, that’s my rash guard. I left it by the first table. After I put my stuff in my car, I was going to come back in and say aloha to everyone, but Curtis Ando and David Arioli came down just then and David and I was best friends little kid time. So we started talking and next thing I know they was locking the fence up. Tony Bacalso and his family was hanging out there having a few beers. Me Curtis and David stayed until the MP asked us to leave.

After I got home I remembered that I left my rash guard.

Brudda the bugga not going fit you, because it is kinda tight on me.

One of these days I’ll try to come by your house and get it. I get one more so I no need rush down there.

Paul, when I was growing up down Shark Country side, the son Ewa Plantation park’s grounds keeper was one heck of a surfer. Little Cory Aleviado could surf on anything and he could switch stance too. We were good friends back then and little surf rats. We never had out own boards, so we rode whatever we could get our hands on. We even rode pieces of wood. You could do spinners on the wave cause they didn’t have fins. When you stay real small and young, your balance is real good.

Thanks for the information about the shapers.

Aloha, Harry

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 Harry Alama, diz Paul. Good we finaly meet. I want to len you know dat I relize what you did fo us. You wen captcha Ewa Beach on record that will not be lost or misremembered. You wen preserve da past fo those who follow. So much is lost over time. So much has already been lost in da pas. You are jus one guy, but you preserved something special that will be cherished for generations to come. Aloha my Bradda. What you have done will never be forgoten…Bradda Paul…

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BACK IN 1970 CHRIS GARDNER MADE ME A FOAM SEMI-GUN WITH LIGHT GREEN TINT. THIS WAS BEFORE HE BEGAN ASSOCIATION WITH LIGHTNING BOLT.

WHEN HE STARTED SHAPING, HE SOLD HIS BOARDS FOR AROUND $75. I PAID HIM $95 FOR MY BOARD, BECAUSE IT HAD TWO REDWOOD STRINGERS. THAT WAS ONE OF MY BETTER BOARDS. IT WAS 8'6", AND I USED IT AT YOKOHAMA'S. I MET BUFFALO, AND RABBIT OUT THERE.

NOW THE BOARDS COST MORE, BUT THEY ARE ART.

WHAT WE NEED IS A WORLD SURFING ORGANIZATION, WHERE ALL THE CLUBS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD MEET TOGETHER, AND COMPETE INTERNATIONALLY.

I THANK THE GOOD LORD THAT I AM FROM THE EWA BEACH SURF CLUB, BECAUSE WE WOULD WIN THAT MEET, AND JOHN SADOWSKI WOULD TAKE 1ST PLACE.

UNTIL THE NEXT BIG PERFECT WAVE COMES IN.

YOUR SURFER BROTHER, Naky Anderson

 

 

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Randall-  U  would  B  1st  place. That  would  B  in  the  Legends  catergory.  another  thing  U   sure   U  met  uncle  Buff  &  R.K.  @  Yoks. How  big  was  it  that  day. U  must  have  been  Rippin.  U  go  Randall.  T.P.

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Aloha Ewa Beach,

I’m still recovering from an amazing day, and little bit “jonesing” for more… the time went too quickly, not enough time to catch up with everyone. Huge Mahalo’s for all of the guys that took the time to come, from Bali (Mike you do anything to go to a good party), mainland, outer islands, all over this island. Mike Nii, Cleigh, Harry A., Isaac and wife, Mel B. and wife, how about the whole Eaton family, especially mom - Huge Honor to have her there,Mr. Husic, Lester, John S. Norman Nauka, amazing to see some of the Ewa Beach’s finest. Charlie M. (gave me my first board, started the whole surfing thing for me) David Murakami, Mike G., Nate… it was all of my hero’s and mentors, the best ever (till the next one).

As for the discussion on boards, that is a whole history in itself. I remember Barney Silva and “the surf shack” Jesse Mizunaka got her new board from there ( I thought) and that’s how I got my first board. Charlie and I were talking about it… he got Jesse’s old board, Glenn got his board, and youngest brother Mark didn’t surf, so Charlie asked if wanted it. At that time for me that was huge, not too much boards around then. It was a solid balsa, fiberglassed yellow, home made job…

How about Herberts boards? That John Kelly Hydroplane, or that one with the black and white check nose, (looks like the one in one of Mel’s pictures that he posted) or the Dru Harrison “Improvisor” Herb always had the best boards.

Mike Gionson had a beautiful board with an S stringer, I don’t know what maker though.

Charlie had a “popout”  from Busters. It was a “Waipahu” brand. Then he had a Jacobs. His brother Glenn had a Rick surfboards.

Leyton Wakasuki from Ewa had a Bing Pipeliner

Lester Enemoto had a board that was a 3 stringer pintail 9’ shaped from some guy on Maui named Richard Brewer, …“don’t get anything smaller than this” he said to me one time.

Calvin Higa had a beautiful aqua tinted 3 stringer Chris Green

Nate had those short ones that I think he shaped himself.

Pete Thompson had a really short red homemade one also

Isaac and Doug Sato made great looking and functional boards when most of us were making “dogs” out of his shop on Hau Bush 

Chis Gardner made those small nose turned up ones before  the Lightning Bolt days. He one of his that they called “The Grape” of course it was purple.

Dick Delong made the first Lightning Bolt that I ever saw, I think that he was on with those guys from the beginning. It was White pigment with a red lightning bolt. they were still toying with the idea of using a lighning bolt

Charlie had a great Dick Delong that was a magic board for me, small square tail. i borrowed that board every chance I got.  I think Charlie finally gave it to me when it got old and waterlogged.

Rich Parr boards were popular because of the price… $40.00 kits and then $99.00 for the whole thing. i worked in the cane fields for a summer to get one of those. Rounded nose so it looked like those Reno hyperkick, clear with white pinstripe, and cut down fin so can “sideslip”

 

Butch

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E Kimo! Ano ai me kealoha! A pehea oe? Kimo greetings with love! How you doing? As for me, me’ike’i malia, very well. So glad you came. You play an important part in our lives cause you experienced so much of what we were about. We were one ohana on 9/15/12. Jus like how suppose to be and what you shared was relevant. Remember, we plan to do a smaller version next year and every 5 do a giant one. YOU MUST COME!!! If not we going come look for you. Plus your boards are so… beautiful and well crafted. Think when I can I going commission you to build me one. Please stay in touch. Now us Eaton’s going hanai you too and not just the Phillips ohana. By the way Ricky, Tom’s eldest brother was also my classmate at Kamehameha 68’.To say we tight is an understatement.

Kahu Cleigh

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E Kimo! Ano ai me kealoha! A pehea oe? Kimo greetings with love! How you doing? As for me, me’ike’i malia, very well. So glad you came. You play an important part in our lives cause you experienced so much of what we were about. We were one ohana on 9/15/12. Jus like how suppose to be and what you shared was relevant. Remember, we plan to do a smaller version next year and every 5 do a giant one. YOU MUST COME!!! If not we going come look for you. Plus your boards are so… beautiful and well crafted. Think when I can I going commission you to build me one. Please stay in touch. Now us Eaton’s going hanai you too and not just the Phillips ohana. By the way Ricky, Tom’s eldest brother was also my classmate at Kamehameha 68’.To say we tight is an understatement.

Kahu Cleigh

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Butch! Just a short note to thank you. Spent some time talking stories with your two sisters. Had to ask which one worked at Silva’s Store cause they were a bit younger then me. Really cool to reconnect. My wife and ohana got see first hand what we were about and connect the faces with names and stories. What we witnessed was all Yeshua!! Mahalo ke Akua.

Kahu Cleigh

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a picture is worth a thousand words, no can go back in time, but a time never forgotten, no one can buy a slice of heaven, Paul you so lucky.

Kahu, my life has gained so much additional insight, I was only on the outside looking in at something very different to me back then, a skinny Haole, running scared a lot of the times, I never knew how much Aloha was waiting for me, 50 years later I get to open the present, wow, best one I eva got.

Look up my hanai son on Maui, Kit Owen, he’s on facebook, he named his daughter after mine, Ivy

Kimo

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[img_assist|nid=1068876|title=1962|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=832|height=645]Well I give it a shot. Jimmy “Rocka” Rucker, Charly Mizunaka, Glen Mizunaka, Jesse Mizunaka, and Me bout 1962. Das my 31 Model A. My first car. You can see Pewe and Polos house in da back groud. Alohas my Braddas

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Hozit Butch. Dat yellow balsa board Charly gace you from da mid 50s right. If so, had 4 more similar boards from da same batch. I still tring to find da pictue. You no wen come across somting an put um in one special place, mo beta leave um alone cause you no where was. Wen I fine um I post um and tell da story. Alohas for now…Bra…

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Paul, As da house I remember but couldn’t find. Classic pic. Mel coulda use this pic the event on Saturday, but no one knew you had um. By the way where is Rocka? We gotta get him next time. What about Jimmy Carey? if anyone might know would be you. Paul I really appreciate you. Truly we wen experince something special. When you and your daughter came to the house on Sunday, I told your daughter how special our relationship was. Wanted her to know from da uncles own mouth so dat it validates everything you shared with her from our past. Again, mahalo nui loa.

Kou hoaloha ame kaikaina your friend & brother

Cleigh

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To all of you who attended this blessed event, thanks for all the support.  I didn't matter if you were part of the committee, the set up crew, or the organizer's everybody became "one".  I was amazed at all the familiar faces and was very moved at the atmoshphere that was created when we were all together sharing food and memories.  Like Butch P. said, it was so short.  Lessons learned, we'll shoot for a weekend next time around.  I hope everyone was ok with Barbers Point Officers Beach as the venue.  Suggestions are always welcomed for the next one.  Talking to old friends and feeling all the love, to me seems like we all want to be together again and wish we could go back to Ewa Beach Road, to Empty Lot, to Shark Country, and just live in that time again.  Well we are.....The values that we learned back then shows in all of us in the present.  It was very evident last Saturday as time slipped backwards for several hours that day and we laughed, ate,  and played like it was just yesterday.  We can resume our lives now that we know that God (whoever it may be for you) has blessed all of us and our families.  Looking forward to the next time, until we meet again my best to all of you.  Aloha, Mike

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Mike, My email address is tuckert004@gmail.com

Keep in touch.

 

Tim T

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Paul,

That was an amazing picture, you got anymore? Yes that board was yellow, there was another one that either Charlie got from Jessie or Glenn got from Charlie that was red. Do you remember the red one? Both solid balsa pigmented. Home made kine, but back then a board was a board. Jesse was big time with her foam one. She was a great surfer. Went one time to Ala Mo’ with the Mizunaka family to see her surf in a meet there. Biggest wave I saw up till then, she was charging… That was cool that Charlies parents were into letting the kids surf. 

My board would go under the house if I did bad in school at St. Joseph’s… worse punishment ever. Better to get licken’s than cannot surf.

Butch

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Well done Mike Nii, Cleigh and Mel! Super mahalos for all. There was a lot of planning you guys did to put this together, it wouldn't have happened with out your efforts. Ike, that Music CD is great! I've been smiling big time listening to the old surf related tunes from our era echo through my house. My kids and their friends laugh at me bopping around to the tunes playing air guitar. Eh, I can't help myself! Good stuff. Thanks for that. The gathering of all these childhood Ewa Beach surfer friends was epic.  Yes, I really expect and hope we'll do this again. As Dorothy said: "There's no place like home" :-). There were some discussion already about the next event; when, where, etc. Hana Ho! I'm sure that info will circulated soon. I think we have most of the e-mail addresses now and can set up our own Ewa Beach Surfer's site soon to post photos, make palns to meet or surf again, or talk story. And for the record: I got a lot of credit for the T-shirts, and the Bell family thanks you all for your appreciation. We're glad to have played a part in this. but the facts: Mel and Beverly and their son did all the graphics for that shirt. I'm sure everyone now knows that the silhouette (I had to look that word up) on the back was taken from a photo that Mel had of our own home-grown legend, Cleigh, at Cambell Industrial Park many moons ago. Cleigh contributed all the Hawaiian proverbs, and so well said! Cleigh also shared the legend of Puuloa and the tiger shark protector of Hawaiian lore. So cool, and the reason the tiger shark is on the shirt. The hammerhead shark was at Mel's suggestion, cause as we all know that dive and lay net in Ewa Beach, the hammerheads were the Puuloa mafia of the sea around there. Cleigh, Mel and I did play around with a bunch of lay-out concepts that we shot back and forth via e-mail before finally all agreeing with the design you have on shirt, and  Emma and I brought to Ewa Beach. Anyways, that's the scoop on the shirts. Just wanted credit to go where it belonged. Aloha from Bali! Mike Bell and Family 

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I didn’t get “it” back then, my grades went in the tank as soon as I started surfing, this was a big mistake as the Major saw only black and white, no grey areas, so my board would go to the hanger where his office was at Hickam, that didn’t stop me though, as the rest of you have posted, “we rode what eva boards were around”, I could always bum a board.

As I grew older and understood the importance of my wasted education, it fell on my shoulders to educate myself, they call me the genius, I don’t have a Mensa card, but wanted to make Pop’s proud that I wasn’t just a beach bum surfer, druggie load-o. He saw that this was what I really wanted and was going to do, he got behind me 100%  and would bring his pals to my factory to show off my skills.

I remeber calling him the night before my first United States Championships finals, I told him, “tomorrow I gonna win this contest for you”, it’s been over 15 years since he left this world, there isn’t a day I don’t think of him, Honor thy mother and father

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My Brother Tom. Chris Gardner was out that day, and Mike Kendall also was.

If you remember Danny Thomas, who lived across George Koholokua's house?

He was also there with Glenn Jacobs. I was using a 9'0" Surfboards Hawaii with

a pin-tail. The waves were about six feet, but had alot of power. I caught some

good waves and got pounded alot paddling back out. Buffalo borrowed my board

to run it across the top of his board, because I had a two inch layer off wax on mine.

Later that week, I saw him at Makaha with Rabbit again, where they use to hang out at

the Loft above the Makaha meeting house on the beach overlooking the Makaha

breaks, where they judged the meets, before they broke it down. I always enjoyed

Yokohama Bay, because the crest would peel over your head like a waterfall if

you positioned yourself just right about two feet from the nose, while going left. Soon

I will enjoy Yok's again! Waving a hand.  naky

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 Sup Cleigh? Yea Freddy Carey was a punk. Even do I love da bradda. He was olda den us an he use to needle us evry time he get da chance. He live road side of John Sadowski house. Rocka live across da street. We bomb his fadas 57 Edsel one time caus he give us crap. Remba one time he choke me so hard I pick um up an ran um backward into da cona of his house. He wen down den. He chase me up a tree in empty an I wen jump down, he try follow but wen land on beer bottel. Stiches bra. I trade him my BB Gun for his bicycle, da bradda shoot me in da back wen i ride off. Pilau Freddy. Bu das ok, still my bradda. Remba High Tide cross Jimmie Ha Store, Fort Weaver side. Afta dey wen close um da windows was still good, Freddy wen punch da big window in da front. Stiches bra. Bum Bum dem was der dat time. I would like to see him again though because he is one of us. And Hozit Butch. Pretty sure dat old board is from a set made in my backyard. My Dad took us guys, Jesse, Charly, Glenn, Mike Gionson, an Me to da back hills behind Red Hill, where da military wen scrap old rafts. Balsa rafts. We wen cut um an bring um home. My dad wen supply da tools an glass an resin. We wen do da work. We did da best we could, had to strip off da canvas an patch da bumble bee holds, but fo free, das ok.Was bout mid 50s. We was kids not artists. We wen jus like surf. First time out we neva know about wax. Den we wen invent da skeg. Hooooo bra da world wen change. Barny, Louie, Lesta, Moody dem prabaly thoght we was nuts, but we was out der. Wit our own boards, Bra. I get da pichas bra. I goin fine um an sen um out wen happen…Aloha My Braddas…Paul…

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Just  watching  Campbell   Leileihua  down  to   the  nity  grity.  Campbell  blew  2   last  down  conversions.  Here  we  go  again.   Let’s  see.  They  blew  it  .Overtime.    Anyway  Randall  U  no  i  love  u .  Like  i  said  u  R  a  Legend.   Maybe  1  day  u  going  win   1  longboard   meet .  Aloha  T.P.  1  more  comment  Paul   the   guy  standing  next   to   Charlie  look   like  the  Japanee  guy  from   Ft  Weaver  Rd   4-get  his  name   the  family  used  take  care  handicap  yeah.