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Jun 26, 2019 · A $3.5 million skatepark in the heart of Venice opened its doors (or, rather, its expansive park of pools and ramps) a decade ago, and it’s now a hotbed of talent that honors the Dogtown legacy preceding it.
- Leora Yashari
- Commissioning Editor
Some before-and-after images of Dogtown & Pacifica following Update 2.0. The stadium went from a fully intact structure to fully decrepit lol. Meanwhile the Dogtown skyline has transformed and seems to be expanding. Can’t wait for Phantom Liberty!
Oct 24, 2008 · Hear her discuss The Last Days of Dogtown and view more photos of Dogtown. For all its difficulty, Dogtown has always had its devotees: history and nature lovers along with the artists, as well as people who go there for “the Dogtown feel,” as one walker near Whale’s Jaw, a two-part boulder formation, put it.
Sep 22, 2011 · From a view of Earth from space, the camera zooms in on a rundown beach community in Santa Monica known as Dogtown—a “place where America’s Manifest Destiny collides into the Pacific Ocean,” says narrator Sean Penn.
- Surfing at The Cove
- Zephyr Surfboard Productions
- Skateboarding's Rebirth
- From Pastime to Passion
- The Del Mar Nationals
- The Dogtown Articles
Between Venice Beach and Santa Monica was an abandoned amusement park on the water called the Pacific Ocean Park Pier. In the middle of the POP, as it was known, the huge wood pilings and rickety p...
In 1972, Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom, and Craig Stecyk opened a surf shop called Jeff Ho and Zephyr Surfboard Productions right in the middle of Dogtown. Ho handcrafted surfboards and pushed the limits and ideas of surfboard design. Craig Stecyk was the artist who designed the surfboards' graphics. Most surfboards at the time used soft, rainbow images or...
Skateboardingwas a hobby that had a short-lived flash of excitement in the late 1950s. At that time, skateboarders rode using dangerous clay wheels. But in 1972, the same year that the Jeff Ho and Zephyr Surfboard Productions shop opened, urethane skateboard wheels were invented. These wheels made skateboarding smoother, safer and more reasonable. ...
The Z-boys enjoyed skateboarding as something to do after surfing. The activity grew from a hobby for the Zephyr team into a new way to express themselves and to show what they were made of. Style was most important to the Zephyr team, and they pulled all of their inspiration from surfing. They would bend their knees deep and enjoyed riding the con...
Then in 1975, the first big skateboarding competition since the 1960s was held in California, the Del Mar Nationals. The Zephyr team showed up in their blue Zephyr shirts and blue Vans shoes and changed the skateboarding world. The Del Mar Nationals competition had two areas—a slalomcourse and a platform for freestyle. The Zephyr team mocked the fr...
That same year, Skateboarder magazine re-launched. In the second issue, Stecyk began a series called the "Dogtown articles," which told the story of the Dogtown team. Stecyk's photography was even more inspiring than his surfboard art, and his articles fanned the flames of the skateboarding revolution that had started at Del Mar. Only a few short m...
- Steve Cave
Apr 23, 2015 · Photographer Sara Gray captures the remoteness, the quiet, the starkness of Dogtown — New England’s most famous abandoned settlement on Cape Ann, near Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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Sep 29, 2022 · Spanning thousands of acres at the heart of Cape Ann, Dogtown—like the rest of Gloucester—sits on the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Pawtucket people and their neighbors, the Massachusett, Nipmuck, Penacook, and Wampanoag tribes.
