Surfing at San Diego's Tourmaline Surf Park in 1969

In the late 1960s TV 8 had a series called Young America. On April 4, 1969, anchor/reporter Nicki Pierce filed this surfing report.
On Young America tonight, it’s the last day of Easter vacation for a lot of local and visiting beach children. So I trekked to Tourmaline Surfing Park in Pacific Beach to find a few wet surfers, a few waiting surfers and a few gazers. Nicki chatted with the surfers mostly about whether they thought the 60-degree water was too cold.
And that was the scene beachside today and I might add this reporter would like to have joined the gazers and stayed the day. On Monday a report from Roosevelt Junior High School on a proposed club to help curb narcotics and the resistance and apathy with which it’s been met. The Big News continues with Harold Keen and People in the News after this.
Tourmaline 1963: • Surfing legends not st...

[@josephtube24]

I watching throwbacks like this here in San Diego especially surf related 🏄🏻‍♂️

[@Speeeeed]

I think surfers were a little tougher then. 60 degrees today will have almost everyone still wearing fullsuits. Definitely not barebacking it.

[@WHATSUP7049]

Right 60 degrees is pretty cold lol i guess were spoiled by nice wetsuits

[@theyoungupstarts1243]

The older i get, the colder it looks!

[@Tintonly]

What’s so tough about being cold? I’d rather be warm

[@theyoungupstarts1243]

@@Tintonly
I trunked it last Sunday at Solana - 57*
No wind and the air temp was okay.
Wasn’t too bad once the hypothermia set in.
I lasted for about thirty minutes but felt like a rusty robot.
This old man is suiting up next time, even with my natural layers!

[@jamievidd775]

Wow, the year I was born

[@kennykeyboard]

I put in many sessions here between 2003 and 2005. Nice learner beach although quality swells did show up, especially near PB Point and Hanneman's. I found Dog Beach and South Mission more to my liking after a while. The people here were more chill than we have now, at least on the sand.

[@haroldhumerickhouse7904]

Awesome.
I was 17 in 69.

[@gottahaveawawa7494]

Wow I was born 50 years latern

[@kianyates1567]

you fight in the war?

[@rustyshimstock8653]

A great geographical document.

[@damonviscusi]

where I learned to surf in the early 90's. :')

[@bonsummers2657]

Looks the same, 53 years later.

[@tinfoilhatplumber485]

No it doesn't the parking lot is full of kooks

[@superorangeish]

Does it get good there?

[@chrisweeks4770]

Where I learned to surf in 2020!

[@cbs8sandiego]

Tourmaline 1963: ua-cam.com/video/E9RusOkVevs/v-deo.html

[@dclipper8052]

Nicki Pierce actually had a trunk full of sweaters she was trying to unload and the reporter angle was just to get close.

[@lostboys_uk]

How is everyone in this so insanely good looking

[@brianchisnell1548]

Before Tijuana moved in

[@Darksagan]

Quite the opposite historically. lol

[@francescoavila6960]

Stuttering surfer

[@haroldhumerickhouse7904]

Maybe he was cold?
60 degrees.