Those crazy kids in California ...

[herrgeezer]

... what will they think of next? Crusing the Sonic in a Woodie ... with an MP40?

[herrgeezer]

Yeah ... we bad!

[herrgeezer]

interesting tunic ... no?

[herrgeezer]

Time for inspection.

[herrgeezer]

How 'bout water sliding in a concrete tunnel with German uniforms? Oh yeah!!!!!

[herrgeezer]

tada!

[herrgeezer]

Now lets use a snow sled. Hey is that chic watching me?

[herrgeezer]

Oh yeah, the aging process.

[herrgeezer]

Bye now.

[herrgeezer]

I guess I should have posted this in Die Kniepe ... but I couldn't resist.

[Michael Fay]

Where did you get those pictures!!!!!!!!
I know exactly who and where that was--- It was late 50's early 60's surfers from the (now)wealthy and iconoclastic La Jolla "Windansea crew" --a now wealthy and elite little surf town(the waves can be extraordinarily good and powerful sometimes) in San Diego and just 2 towns from where I surfed for 20 years. A bit later their little brothers would be called the Pumphouse gang surfers became famous in Tom Wolfe's where he had a chapter devoted to them. I have heard and read about this infamous sledding down a sewer/runoff pipe many many years ago.

This brings me to somthing on my mind--How there is a odd connection between southern California Surfing culture and Nazi regalia. It is like the Biker-nazi fetishism of the past. Back when I surfed all the time..swastikas sprouted in surf graffiti everywhere. People used to hurl the epitaph/curse at me calling me a "surf nazi. " I have a bunch of old early 60's surf mags where they are putting down a segment of the surfing community for wearing German WW2 helmets and Iron crosses both on the beach, on their cars, and the helmets stayed on while surfing.
In the 50's surfers wore nazi overcoats over their surf trunks in the cold winter and chilly early morning summer coastal fog. Exactly as portrayed in the surf movie "Big Wednesday."
----Michael Fay

I am going to look for my images of this little known phenomema

[DonC]

I have a sick feeling that that was an original RAD tunic...

Don

[Pat]

I have seen this film also. Everything they wore was original.

[TONY Q.W.]

I have a sick feeling that that was an original RAD tunic...

Don

....sold later on as a salty/being there example

[Michael Fay]

I am positive all the 50's surf nazi stuff was original. So many dad's were vets in California back then. When I was 7 and 8 I walked to a junk shop next to the beach and always looked at all the nazi regalia-medals-helmets-daggers-overcoats. I bought my first(and original) nazi badge there for 3dollars !
--Michael