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10/03/2026

04/10/2025

⏳ Time Slips: Myth… or Glitch in the Surf?

Reports of time slips go back centuries. Witnesses claim to step into another era, if only for a few minutes. Unlike dreams or hallucinations, these events are marked by sensory detail — sights, sounds, even smells that match another time.

🔹 Famous Accounts

In 1979, two couples driving through the French countryside claimed they stayed overnight at a rustic inn… only to find later that it had vanished, along with the uniforms and currency they had been shown.

In Liverpool, England, Bold Street is notorious for alleged slips. Shoppers have walked into stores only to find themselves surrounded by fashions and products from decades earlier.

🔹 Theories

Psychological: Stress, déjà vu, or temporal lobe misfires.

Paranormal: Glimpses into “residual energy” or ghostly imprints left behind.

Scientific Fringe: Overlaps between parallel timelines, or “spacetime hiccups” where past and present converge.

What makes time slips so compelling is the consistency: people don’t just see another time, they experience it — breathing its air, hearing its music, touching its world.

Whether glitch, ghost, or gateway, these stories remind us that time may not be as stable as we think.

03/10/2025

Here’s a clean, **informative + archival** post you can drop for your hot-rods theme:

Hot rods & the surf scene (early ’60s)🌊🔧

Longboards were long, and beaches weren’t always close—so the car park became part of surf culture. In early-’60s California (and wherever the look spread), surfers showed up in woodie wagons, roomy sedans, and home-built hot rods with racks bolted on. It was the same spirit as board building: DIY, customize, make it yours.

Why rods fit:! space for 9–10½' single-fins, wetsuits, and friends; easy to fix, easy to modify.
The look: pinstripes, scallops, metal-flake paint, deck-lids off—right next to canvas board bags and wax in the glovebox.
Kustom Kulture crossover: stripers and illustrators influenced shop decals, poster art, and board logos; surf mags printed the cars as often as the waves.
Soundtrack: car & surf songs shared the airwaves—same weekend, same crowd, same stoke.

Got a photo or family story—woodie, wagon, or home-built rod—parked up at the beach? Drop it below with year + place and I’ll repost a few 🤙

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02/10/2025

Inside a 1960s surf shop: how longboards were built 🔧🌊

Early ’60s boards used polyurethane foam cores (the Hobie/Clark foam breakthrough of the late ’50s → Clark Foam founded 1961) skinned with fiberglass cloth and polyester resin. Shapers roughed the blank with a power planer and Surform, followed templates for the outline, then hand-sanded the rails and rocker.

Glassing went in stages: cloth was laminated with polyester resin and squeegeed tight; once cured, a hot-coat (wax-in or additive-in polyester) was brushed on to fill the weave; then the board was sanded, and many shops finished with a gloss coat for that deep shine. Logos were set under the glass on rice paper so the badge aged with the board.

A lot of longboards wore heavier Volan cloth—the old-school fiberglass with that faint “Coke-bottle” green look—plus resin pinlines and pigment tints for style. The result: strong, shiny 9–10½' single-fin logs built for trim and early noseriding, finished a few bays from the beach and strapped to wagons for weekend sessions.

(If you’ve got a shaping-bay photo or an old shop decal, drop it with beach + year—I’ll repost a few.)

01/10/2025

Skateboarding: the early years (sidewalk surfing) 🛹🌊

When the waves went flat in early-’60s Southern California, surfers took the glide to concrete. The first “boards” were wood planks with roller-skate trucks—steel, then clay wheels—and decks shaped like mini longboards. Beach-area shops began selling purpose-built models; teams did demos in car parks and on TV, and a few standout riders (hello handstands and nose-wheelies) showed what style looked like on tiny wheels.

Labels you’ll see in the earliest era include Makaha, Hobie (Super Surfer), Val-Surf, and Skee-Skate—often marketed as “sidewalk surfboards.” From about ’63–’65, the craze went big: contests, shop teams, even a skate magazine. Then those hard clay wheels and sketchy bearings helped trigger bans and a slump… until urethane wheels in the early ’70s brought it roaring back.

Same DNA as surfing: flow, style, DIY. When you couldn’t surf waves, you surfed sidewalks.

👉 What was your first board or spot? Drop a pic or story below and I’ll repost a few 🤙

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30/09/2025

Surfboards by Moselle (Culver City, CA — late ’50s/early ’60s)

Small Westside label with a distinctive triangular “Surf Boards by MOSELLE” badge. Operating out of Culver City, the brand shows up on period decals and a shop business card listing a Jefferson Blvd address, and it’s often linked to Ray Moselle Sr. & Jr. Boards from this label surface only occasionally today—proper Los Angeles surf history from the pre-leash, longboard era. If you’ve got one, drop pics, dims, and any stories 👇

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Sources: Westside Historic notes Moselle active **c.1958–1964** in Culver City; vintage **business card** shows the **Jefferson Blvd** address; Stoked-N-Board lists **Ray Moselle Sr/Jr** with the Moselle label. ([Tumblr][1])

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26/09/2025

Hot rods x Surfing: why they were inseparable in the ’60s 🌊🔧

Surf culture didn’t just happen in the water—it spilled into the car park. In early-’60s California (and beyond), surfers rolled up in woodie wagons, deuce coupes, T-buckets and home-built rods with board racks bolted on. Hot rodding and surfing shared the same DNA: DIY, customize everything, and make it stylish.

Utility meets style: Woodies and wagons were cheap and roomy—perfect for 9–10' single-fin logs. Rods towed friends, boards, and beach gear; racks were often homemade from timber or rope.

Kustom Kulture: Pinstripers and low-brow artists influenced board logos, shop decals, and poster art. Think Von Dutch lines, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth wildness, later echoed by surf cartoonists.

Soundtrack crossover: Car songs and surf songs shared the charts—Little Deuce Coupe, Shut Down, Surf City—same crowd, same weekend plans.

Show-and-shine at the sand: Parking lots were rolling galleries—flaked paint, chrome, roof racks stacked high, wax in the glovebox. The look of surfing was as much chrome and canvas as sun and swell.

Got a photo or story—rod, woodie, wagon or racks-from-scratch—from your family archive? Drop it below with the year and beach; I’ll repost a few 🤙