It was a simple photograph of Cronulla surf club members standing in front of their boards taken at Cronulla on a summer's afternoon 60 years ago.
But the photographer Barry Stackelburg could not have realised when he took it that he was capturing the end of an era.
And the participants in the picture standing in front of their 16-foot "Toothpick" surfboards did not know they were at the forefront of a new wave that would change surfing forever.
Last Saturday, a re-enactment was staged of the original Toothpick photo taken in 1955 in front of Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club as part of the Surf Retrospect Cronulla, which is celebrating 100 years of surfing in Australia.
Lined up in front of the now historic 16-foot Toothpicks were some of the original participants in that original photo including Barry Banister who was a teenager when he was asked to pose in front of his board.
"We just lined up on the beach and had our photo taken," said Mr Banister, who travelled down from Iluka for the re-enactment.
"I was 16; after the photo was taken we all went our separate ways. A couple have since died. We couldn't find a couple of others. But it was wonderful to catch up 60 years later."
His nephew, Michael Banister, who with James Young is organising the Surf Retrospect, helped stage the re-enactment which was followed by a history talk on surfing at Cronulla before the 1960s.
"It was about what happened when a team of Americans came to Cronulla in 1955 including surfers Greg Noll and Tom Zahn — who according to the Encyclopedia of Surfing briefly dated Marilyn Monroe.
"They came to Cronulla on the way to the Olympics in Melbourne and did a paddle board display," Mr Banister said.
"They brought with them the state-of-the-art Malibu surfboards made from balsa wood.
"The Australians hadn't seen anything like them before — not just the boards, but the whole beach culture which was happening in the US then that wasn't happening here.
"Everything changed quickly after that; not just the style of surfing but the lifestyle.
"With the paddle boards, they were surfing 100 metres out to sea, riding the green wave before it broke.
"With the Malibu, they were able to take off close to where the wave broke and ride in the pocket, top to bottom.
"The whole beach culture of Cronulla changed from that day on."
Leader chief photographer John Veage said the 'photo was a defining moment.
"It recorded a turning point in the sport, it became known as the 'Toothpick photo', one of the instantly identifiable images."
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