Vintage Newquay Surfing Video – Exciting early days what fun!
Vintage Newquay Surfing Video
Surfing in Newquay in the 70’s. Archive surfing film of the early days of surfing in the days before mobile phones, when tablets were a medication from the chemist and flares were in.
This vintage Newquay surfing video was made in the decade of the Vietnam War, Nixon as president of the United States, Films like Jaws, The Sting and the Godfather.
It was the period when Idi Amin was president of Uganda, and Steve Biko died in South Africa. It was the decade of the first IVF child and the first MRI scan. No one had a personal computer!

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