Here's a story that seems to have been in Surfer Magazine. Not everything here is true, but it gives you a taste of The Wedge Legend.

Taken in 1967 from the water.

Jim Scanlon in 1966 which was a very disappointing year.

Taken in 1967 from the water.

Taken in 1967 from the water.

Over the falls in 1967!

Taken on Saturday May 5, 1966. The great Cinco de Mayo west swell which rearranged Southern California beaches! This was an epic large swell. The Wedge was so big and ugly that only two people went in the water all day.

Cinco de Mayo 1966. A small inside wave.

Cinco de Mayo 1966. A set wave. Taken with a 400 mm lense. It's hard to get a perspective of the size of these waves. We used to estimate that if the wave peaked to the horizon when we were standing, then it was 15 feet. This wave easily exceeded that!

Bill Wilson waits with me for a decent wave in 1967.

A clean-up wave in 1968.

The Wedge devours yet another victim in 1968.

Forrest Brown in 1968.

Ken Smiley in 1968.

Clueless! Taken in 1968.

Taken in 1968.

Dave Maynard in 1968.

Bill Sinner in 1968.

This photo gives a really good look at how the Wedge looked on a decent sized south swell in 1965. It's a good indicator of how the wave piled up into a thick peak after the previous wave bounced off the jetty. Note the yellow tower at the end of the jetty and the power cables on wooden posts leading out to the tower.

At last a picture of me! This is near the end of a ride in 1968.

Another one of me on a small wave in 1968.

Me in a rather ugly sandy wave in 1968.

Me getting launched.

The occassional right can be had off the peak, but I really preferred the left.

A belly boarder in 1966. This was an unusual sight back in the 60s. At that time only a very few boards of any kind were seen there.

Another water shot of Forrest Brown on a small wave in 1967.

Here's an ugly brute about to clean out the lineup in 1965.

Every so often on a medium sized day, something like this will thunder into and over the crowd.

Lots of people have fought the rip tides at The Wedge. Here's what it looks like as it ruins a late arriving wave.

I'm sure this poor guy wishes he hadn't got out of bed in the morning!

Here's a shot of Jeff Daly (sp?) on the right, shoulder hopping a fellow body surfer. Jeff was very enthusiastic and a very good body surfer.

This is the only picture I have of Fred Simpson who had a unique style and a real set of elephant balls! He was one of only two people I saw go in the water on Cinco de Mayo 1966. Even he took only one wave just to get back to the beach alive!

An unidentified body surfer in 1968.

Another shot from the water taken in 1967.

The back of Fred Simpson's head and a pretty little peak rollin' through. 1967

One of the Newport Beach Body Surfing Association guys in 1968.