Post #10829 by Kawentzmann on Sat, Oct 12, 2002 8:10 AM

This is awesome!
It reminds me a bit of the first time I was in Biarritz, France. I shopped at the first european mainland surfshop, Joe Moraiz. It was established in 1965, and Joe still worked there. He let me have a look at the board room, whitch was longboards only, and some were from the early sixties. Among the malibu boards was a Gidget-size one with the very cute shop logo on it. In the following years Biarritz had a serious retro vibe around the surf shops, due to the Oxbow Longboard world tour and Nat Young I suppose, but Joe Moraiz was the real thing. The shop stood long enough to make into the collage of french surf shops in Endless Summer II. But in the early summer of 1997 the building was gone.
The place used to be a genuine time bubble.

KK