11th June - 2025
I remember it well, the Gordon Woods Surfboards Surf Shop in Cronulla. It was located in the Beach Park Arcade, directly opposite the Cronulla Railway Station.
It was run by the larger than life, TV Sports Commentator, the late Darryl Eastlake. Back in the late '60s, big Darryl was the first person to ever do a specialised 'southside' surf report on Sydney radio. |
*Ad from Surfing World Magazine c.1969. |
Cronulla surf conditions rarely got mentioned by the early surf reporters. Cronulla was then considered an 'end-of-the-line' beach and didn't rate up there with the more glamorous and highly famed Bondi and Manly beaches.
Darryl installed a direct 'landline' connected to the shop so that he could do his surf reports over the uninterrupted link to Sydney AM radio station 2UE, where Surfing World magazine founder and editor, the late Bob Evans, would host the main surf report.
Then when Darryl left, another assertive Cronulla surf personality took over the reins of the Gordon Woods shop. It was Wes King. Wes was president of the strong Eastern States Boardriders Club who were, in those days, based mainly at Cronulla Point.
Thanks for the SW image to Darryl Von Weirdo:
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