Surfer

Bob McTavish, 74

“You should always be looking for new ways to have fun. I’m not a nostalgic guy. I’ll talk about the past when someone asks, but I’m always looking at what’s next for fun.”

When Bruce Brown came through Australia in ’61, I saw “Barefoot Adventure” and “Slippery When Wet” in a theater in Brisbane. Before that I was an office boy for an advertising company and was fascinated by television, so I was going to take a job as a camera person. But then I

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