Retro surf festival in Ericeira: Twins & Fins
Before neon, surfing in leggings, wetsuits, artificial reefs and wave pools, when modern surfing was but a young sport, it was associated with things like Aloha shirts, wood-panelled station wagons, VW buses and twangy instrumental guitar music. Then came the Beach Boys, Gidget, Frankie & Annette and the things simply got out of hand. By the mid 1960s surf culture had already become commercialised. It then took on many forms,