Boomer Beach
Way back when, Boomer used to be shared by the surfers, the matriders,
the bodysurfers. Things
changed when the political bodysurfers, comprised of numerous life guards,
got the city to
make the area legal only for those organized bodysurfers.
These photographs are downloaded from 8 millimeter film shot by William
Andrews and captured
into a computer and downloaded as a single frame. The year is circa 1961,
shortly after the official disbanding
of the La Jolla High School Surf Team upon the edict of Mr. Balsiger.
Sequence of the California casualness of a thick surfer. Thick,
as in muscular. In the early
days of large boards, surfing was not for the weak of body or weak of heart.
Next, is Jerry Stirnkorb, an intellectual masking as a surfer.
Simmons had to die to have a reef named after him.
Luscomb had to disappear to Hawaii to have a break named after him.
Stirnkorb only had to break a board to have his reef named for him.
This wave on this pumphouse no longer exists as the City of San Diego
replaced the
sewage system in the late '90s. This is the beach at Stirnkorb's Reef,
now affectionately called
Clairemont Reef, after its inhabitants. [Photo shot 1979]
This next three are a sequence of the Reverse Kickout, executed to perfection by the Team.
Our thanks to the then-gremmie, William Andrews, for his cinematography!