Pioneers of modern skateboarding gathered on the Santa Monica Pier Thursday night to celebrate 50 years of the culture that is now synonymous with California.
In the mid-70s, a group of young men from Dogtown — a local nickname for Santa Monica, formed the Z-Boys skate team at Jeff Ho’s Zephyr surf shop. The legendary group, credited with redefining skateboarding, originally consisted of 12 members, including Tony Alva, who became a mascot for the culture.
Their story was immortalized in an acclaimed 2002 documentary “Dogtown and Z-Boys’ and the 2006 film “Legends of Dogtown”, which was screened on the pier Thursday at Santa Monica’s ‘Locals’ Night.’
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