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The photos on the 2025 History Month website form part of a recent large donation to the RHSV (our deepest thanks to Murray Walding for engineering this donation). The photo collection is mostly pinky Zinke nostalgia by professional photographer Trevor Lemke who lived and worked in Lorne in the 1960s. The donation is so recent that the photos are not yet catalogued. Trevor would photograph holiday-makers on the beach during the day and partying at night. Copies of the photos could be bought from Trevor the next day.

Lorne was a hip and groovy place where beatniks met surfers. The two hotspots were the Arab Café and the Wild Colonial Club, an old fire-trap building on the foreshore at the end of Grove Road.

The homepage photo of 3 boys and their Malibu boards are the original founders of Rip Curl outside their first surfboard shop in Lorne.

The band photo seen on the Supporters page (taken at the Wild Colonial Club) is of the Spinning Wheels who were big between 1964 and 1966 when they disbanded because 2 band members were conscripted for National Service. Remember their big hit, “Got My Mojo Working”?