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Dogtown : the legend of the Z-Boys / C.R. Stecyk III, the original stories and selected images ; Glen E. Friedman, picture archive discoveries.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stecyk, Craig, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Skateboarding.
- Z-Boys (Group).
- Dogtown and Z-Boys (Motion picture).
- Skateboarding--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 120 pages, 150 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- First Akashic Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2019]
- Summary:
- "In the early 1970s, the sport of skateboarding had so waned from its popularity in the 1960s that it was virtually nonexistent. In the DogTown area of west Los Angeles, a group of young surfers known as the Zephyr Team (Z-Boys) was experimenting with new and radical moves and styles in the water, which they translated to the street. When competition skateboarding returned in 1975, the Z-Boys turned the skating world on its head. DogTown: The Legend of the Z-Boys is a truly fascinating case study of how an underground sport ascended in the world. These are the stories and images of a time that not only inspired a generation but changed the face of the sport forever. This volume has been described as "the DogTown textbook" and an indispensable companion piece to the Sony Pictures Classics film Dogtown and Z-Boys. Now spanning 1975-1985 and beyond, the first section of the book includes the best of the DogTown articles written and photographed by C.R. Stecyk III as they originally appeared in SkateBoarder Magazine. The second half compiles hundreds of skate images from the archives of Glen E. Friedman--many of which appear in the movie. (Stecyk and Friedman acted as executive producers and advisors for the film.) The bigger, newly designed edition of the book includes many never-before-seen Friedman photos, along with a new postscript by Stecyk."--Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- Aspects of the downhill skide
- Who's hot!
- Stacy Peralta
- Fear of flying speed
- speed, a trange and tragic magic
- Fish-eyed freaks and long dogs with short tales
- The westside style or under the Skatetown influence
- Stacy Peralta: first interview highlights
- Frontier tales or any resemblance to any persons living or dead is pureply coincidental
- Jay Adams
- Paul Constantineau
- Tony Alva: first interview highlights
- Stranger than fictyion
- Bob Biniak
- Sequential overdrive or dog's eye view
- Paul Cullen
- Nathan Pratt: interview highlights
- Vicious lies and more interplanetary communications
- Truth or consequences or let's not and say we did
- Wentzle Ruml
- Opening day at the park
- Arthur Lake IV
- Bon Biniak: interview highlights
- Dead dogs never lie
- Jay Adams: interview highlights
- Picture archive discoveries
- rare DogTown images 1975-1985+.
- Notes:
- "New expanded edition"--Page [4] of cover.
- "AKB535"--Spine.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel P. Orlando Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781617756993
- 1617756997
- OCLC:
- 1055914862
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