ADayWithBa.com
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Bill Andrews' Take on La Jolla Surfing and Life - A Day With BA - Index Page
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Excerpted from the website:
- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- William Wolcott [Bill] Andrews,(1944 - ) documentary photographer and archivist, is the Studs Terkel of San Diego surf life. Andrews surfed his first wave in 1957 at Jolla Shores. In the early sixties, Andrews joined the line-up at Windansea Beach. One of the first to surf Black's Beach, Andrews' surfing skills won him the cover of 1964 SURFER magazine [1] and membership in the notorious surf gang, * Macmeda [2], who terrorized southern California in the sixties with wild pranks, police riots, and massive baccanals. * Andrews and Macmeda members chased Tom Wolfe away from the real surf scene at Windansea down to the wannabe outcasts at the Pump House, who pumped Wolfe full of the material he later turned into his non-fiction novel, The Pump House Gang. Andrews has been cited in numerous articles on surf history including Surfer's Journal (Summer 2000). His website, A Day with BA[3], an ecclectic collection of reminiscences, photographs (his and others), and commentaries makes Andrews one of the major archivists of modern surf history.
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