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Small retail businesses include cafes, restaurants, a book shop, takeaway bars, a pharmacy, a newsagent/post office, several hairdressers, a day spa, a YHA youth hostel, real estate agents, Collaroy cinema, the Collaroy Services club (also known as "The Beach Club") and "The Collaroy", which was formerly known as the Surf Rock Hotel, re-opened ...
Frank Olkulich, the local surf-ski champion: Male: 21: Fatal: 16:00: 2.4 m [8'] shark, presumed Great white shark [89] 1954 27 February: The Entrance, near Gosford: Swimming: Reg Fabrizius: Male: 23: Fatal. Right thigh bitten: 17:15: Unknown shark, presumed Great White shark [90] [91] 1955 18 January: Wyargine Point, Edwards Beach, Balmoral ...
The first Australian Surf Life Saving Championships were held at Bondi Beach, New South Wales in March 1915. [1] The first Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) Masters Championships took place in 1987. It has since become an annual event, providing a platform for experienced surf life savers to showcase their skills and compete at a high level.
Manly is a beach-side suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.It is 17 kilometres (11 mi) north-east of the Sydney central business district and is currently one of the three administrative centres of the local government area of Northern Beaches Council.
Collaroy Plateau is a suburb of northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Collaroy Plateau is 22 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council and is part of the Northern Beaches region. Collaroy Plateau was designated as a separate suburb in 1977 with ...
O'Neill is an originally Californian surfwear and surfboard brand, now owned by Sisco Textiles, a privately held company headquartered in Luxembourg. It was started in 1952 by Jack O'Neill in San Francisco, and was later based in Santa Cruz.
In 2007, the building housing Horizons West Surf Shop (formerly Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions) was designated to be demolished to construct condominiums. [4] Local skaters and surfers, led by Jacob Samuel [5] began fighting to protect the building. [6] On April 9, 2007, an application was filed to designate the building as a City ...
The Katins kept making their surf trunks, selling them from the Surfside store and through a hemisphere-wide network of surf shop dealers. From the 1960s through the 1970s, many top surfers were loyal customers [3] and appeared in surf magazine ads wearing them. Walter Katin died in 1967, and Nancy continued to run the shop and the business in ...