WATCH-AND-LEARN DEPARTMENT: VIEW-MASTER'S 1971 "INSTRUCTIONAL SURFING WITH LINDA BENSON"
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Encyclopedia of Surfing enthusiast Andy Allison sent me photos of this rare 1971 GAF View-Master reel titled "Instructional Surfing With Linda Benson" (scroll down, click play), and for a minute or two the Boomer in me went very soft-focus. All those heavy-saturated but fading shades of blues. Kodachrome, for anybody closing hard on 60, is sweetly weaponized nostalgia. Then I remembered how every...
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