Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s by LeRoy Grannis, a surfer since 1931, who began photographing the scene in California and Hawaii in the longboard era of the early 1960s.
I was raised on these beaches (50's-70's.) We usually camped out at Rincon in Carpenteria, but my parents were all up and down the coast in a small travel trailer with 5 kids. They drove a green Rambler station wagon with huge daisys painted on it to pull the trailer, which was also great for drive-in movie theaters.
So when I was a teenager my mother became a notorious clam poacher, always taking way more clams than allowed per day, until the surfers put up wanted posters for her from Ventura to Santa Barbara: "WANTED - PISMO PEGGY - CLAM THIEF!" along with a hand drawn mugshot of a chubby, wild haired, huge breasted and crazed looking woman trying to hide clams between her breasts and in her bikini bottom, under her belly and in buckets. It was the best of times and the worst of times but overall and looking back, a glorious childhood on the beaches of California.
J4CKR4BB1TSL1MS on April 30th, 2017 at 13:39 UTC »
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Other pictures from the book, including this one in higher quality.
hillsidehippie on April 30th, 2017 at 13:40 UTC »
Still crowded.
berning_man on April 30th, 2017 at 16:19 UTC »
I was raised on these beaches (50's-70's.) We usually camped out at Rincon in Carpenteria, but my parents were all up and down the coast in a small travel trailer with 5 kids. They drove a green Rambler station wagon with huge daisys painted on it to pull the trailer, which was also great for drive-in movie theaters.
So when I was a teenager my mother became a notorious clam poacher, always taking way more clams than allowed per day, until the surfers put up wanted posters for her from Ventura to Santa Barbara: "WANTED - PISMO PEGGY - CLAM THIEF!" along with a hand drawn mugshot of a chubby, wild haired, huge breasted and crazed looking woman trying to hide clams between her breasts and in her bikini bottom, under her belly and in buckets. It was the best of times and the worst of times but overall and looking back, a glorious childhood on the beaches of California.