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THE ORIGINAL ZEPHYR SKATEBOARD TEAM CIRCA 1975

Shogo Kubo Bob Biniak Nathan Pratt Stacy Peralta Jim Muir Alan Sarlo Chris Cahill Tony Alva Wentzle Ruml Peggy Oki Jay Adams Paul Constantineau

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(upper row L-R) Shogo Kubo, Bob Biniak, Nathan Pratt, Stacy Peralta, Jim Muir
Alan Sarlo, Chris Cahill, Tony Alva

(bottom row L-R) Wentzle Ruml IV, Peggy Oki, Jay Adams, Paul Constantineau

"Baby" Paul Cullen
Arthur Lake
Marty Grimes
Wes Humpston
Larry Bertleman
Dexter Green

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"ASPECTS OF THE DOWNHILL SLIDE" - 1975
"FISH EYED FREAKS & LONG DOGS WITH SHORT TALES" - 1976
"THE WESTSIDE STYLE OR UNDER THE SKATETOWN INFLUENCE" - 1976
"FRONTIER TALES. . ." - 1976
"STRANGER THAN FICTION" - 1977
"SEQUENTIAL OVERDRIVE or DOG'S EYE VIEW" - 1977
"TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES" - 1977
"DEAD DOGS NEVER LIE" - 1979

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The Shit Pit.

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Sixspace and GLEN FRIEDMAN have confirmed that the first ever showing of THE IDEALIST exhibition will take place at sixspace for 5 weeks in Los Angeles. The evening of March 6th 2004 will be the grand opening and official book release party for the newly revised edition of "The Idealist - In My Eyes - 25 Years" . Glen as well as other special guests will be there to sign copies of the new book and answer your questions.

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Peggy Oki has a new Barfoot Signature model skateboard.
Click HERE to get more info on the deck.

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"THE LORDS OF DOGTOWN" is being made by Columbia Pictures.
The director is Katherine Hardwicke, who recently directed "Thirteen".
The production should start in early 2004...We'll post more info as it comes in....

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The Poster below is available now through the OBEY GIANT website. Signed by Shepard Fairey, Craig Stecyk, and Jay Adams.

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Stacy Peralta's new film "RIDING GIANTS" about big wave surfer Laird Hamilton will debut at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

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DOGTOWN: The Legend of the Z-BOYS

A co-authored book project by Glen E. Friedman and C.R. Stecyk III is again available to book stores and to the general public. The 8" x 8" hard cover book of approximately 240 pages includes most of the original DogTown stories, Who's Hot's, and Interviews written and photographed by Stecyk in the 1st half of the book as well as over 100 color pages of previously unpublished hard-core DT/Z Friedman shots in the second half of the book. It's been described as "The DogTown text book."

The book can be ordered through Friedman's distributor
via email at consafos@earthlink.net
or by calling (800) 655-4897.

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The new superwide Webb Trucks and the MIKE SMITH signature truck are now available at WebbTrucks Mention "Z-BOYS.COM" and you'll get free shipping on your retail trucks order.

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JAY ADAMS INTERVIEW WITH Z-BOYS.COM - 2001

WENTZLE RUML IV INTERVIEW WITH Z-BOYS.COM - 2001

SHOGO KUBO INTERVIEW WITH Z-BOYS.COM - 2001

THE "BULLDOG" STORY. . .A Z-BOYS.COM EXCLUSIVE ARTICLE

SKIP ENGBLOM 1977 INTERVIEW

1970's BANK RIDING ARTICLE

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DOGTOWN WAS RECENTLY FEATURED IN SkateBoarder Magazine.
Click below for the article.

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"TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
FREESTYLE SKATING WAS A BUNCH OF SHORT LITTLE MUSCULAR DUDES POPPING HANDSTANDS ON SKATEBOARDS.
THEN CAME THE VOLATILE, OBNOXIOUS, HARD-RIDING, HARD-LIVING DOGTOWN BOYS.
AMERICA HASN'T BEEN THE SAME SINCE."


Spin Magazine printed an article in March, 1999 about DOGTOWN.
The entire article is above.


Twenty years ago, you did not drop in on Tony Alva.

Twenty years ago, if you found yourself standing next to the volatile, gravity-defying Alva at some crowded backyard pool in the Valley, and he was planning to take the next run--even though he'd just taken the last one--it was best to not even look at him.

Tonight, however, such ancient protocols are no longer in effect. Alva, 41. . has come to skate the new Vans Skatepark. . As a dozen or so mostly teenage skaters stand waiting to try out one of the park's two cement pools, they seem wholly oblivious to Alva...

As Alva stands, poised at the edge of the drop, rocking slightly, his left foot planted on the board, a wispy blond-haired nine-year-old, completely unaware of him, stands in the same position just a few feet away. And when the guy in the pool blows a backside grind at its far end, the nine-year-old pushes off with his right foot.

It's a moment of minor blasphemy--a nine-year-old, a kid who can barely even skate, dropping in on Alva! Alva, the leader of the Dogtown boys, the former World Champion, the godfather of urban skate-punks who transformed skateboarding from a sport of short little muscular dudes doing nose wheelies into the minor religion that it is today. Does the kid have any clue what he's doing? Any clue at all?

Twenty years ago, "Mad Dog" Alva would have fired his board at the tiny kid's head. But today, he simply claps twice, like a Little League coach, and smiles at all the shorties in line....


CLICK HERE FOR THE ENTIRE SPIN "LORDS OF DOGTOWN" ARTICLE.

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Dogtown Skates'
first ad c. 1977
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Wes Humpston art
c. 1977



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