Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Surfing Pics from way back when



sent to me from Jim Fuqua who used to surf with the Jones all the time.







12 comments:

Chris said...

Very nice !

Classic 70's shots. Left side still looks the same.
Notice the Lightining Bolt board
in the edge of the pic.

Thanks Cindy

Chris said...

Cindy ,
Stick Jim's photo on here if you
got it.

pat said...

good job cindy...promise, i'll keep looking.

pat said...

Anyone watch the PBS series "the war"? It showed me a whole new perspective of the history we Really grew up in. The wars in Saipan, palau, wake Iland, Okinawa,and Guam. So many thousands of young soldiers, our sons ages and younger, lost their lives on those little Islands, for us. lets just not forget where we came from.

Doug said...

Great series. The lady that had spent four years as a civilian P.O.W. in the Philipines said that when they came home to Sacramento that no one could relate to what they had experienced. So they just kind of clammed up about their lives back overseas.
While I in no way would compare our time on Guam to what she went through I could relate to the culture shock to which she referred.
Those guys went through hell back in WWII.
We actually still have a number of WWII artifacts that we found in the boonies at one time or another.

pat said...

TY Doug. I meant to post my comment original (ya know), but I'm still dumb at this and plus, I liked Cindys post on top. But you heard me out there and it made my day. I had just been reading the Deans boys posts after watching the series and I just thought, do any of us really appreciate what happened out there? Yea, it's fun to remember the partying....but we have to respect. take care Doug...your friend, Pat

Dave said...

And we used to hassle the urns like they were bastard children. After being one for so many years now, I have a much deeper appreciation for those guys who fought like hell to give us what we have today...our freedom. And yes, the freedom to SURF!

Rod said...

Yes, God bless our military!! I remember, B4 D.Circle, I lived on Cliffline, and The B-52's would roar off at sunrise, daily(?) to carpet bomb the V.C..Then when I moved to D,Circle, I remember the great hook-up we had, fresh from the planes, and Tailand..The air force rules!! Sorry Dave!

Dave said...

You've got a good point there Rod.
Those boys really knew how to fly high.

juliet said...

My Grand Aunt was a WWII veteran. She was a military nurse on Tinian when the US dropped the bomb.I used to get over to Tinian by ship in the early 80's and spent a lot of time poking around the island and went to the old air field. There wasn't anything there and the jungle was taking over. Tinian was used for military range practice. I am not sure if the military still practices there. The locals wanted to put an end to it. My friends and I almost got blasted out of the boonies there when we were cruising around on mopeds and didn't realize we had strayed onto the range. I never heard about it being used as a training area until that day.

I remember the football games between the military and UOG and how different life seemed on the military bases. UOG's football effort was short lived when the military stopped playing.

Paul said...

Would you believe they are still flying B-52's out of here these days.

I pulled some un-exploded rounds out of the harbor while diving just a couple of months ago. still on a belt that feeds them in to a machine gun.

juliet said...

I believe it. I was hiking down a little cliff in the boonies in Rota and looked down at the funny rock I was standing on and realized it was a big bomb. I have a picture of that somewhere stored at my mothers. Sammy and Alice and I used to hit the old bullets we found with a hammer into the street. How stupid was that. I still have all the shells that you would bring back when you and Ben were doing a lot of spear fishing. Now those were some reckless days, but that is for another Blog...Paul and Ben lived together after High School. Here in the Red Sea we have active mines that break free every once in a while. Much of the land mines were never cleared after the different wars that were fought here. You definitely don't go for a stroll on a deserted beach in this country. Tourist blow up every once in a while, but you'll never hear about it, bad for business.