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April 14, 2014

22 Vintage Pictures That Capture Young Skateboarders in California in the Mid-1970s

One afternoon in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland drove up Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles and encountered skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of the canyon. Immediately transfixed by their grace and athleticism, he knew he had found an amazing subject. Although not a skateboarder himself, for the next three years Holland never tired of documenting skateboarders surfing the streets of Los Angeles, parts of the San Fernando Valley, Venice Beach, and as far away as San Francisco and Baja California, Mexico.

During the mid-1970s, Southern California was experiencing a serious drought, leaving an abundance of empty swimming pools available for trespassing skateboarders to practice their tricks. From these suburban backyard haunts to the asphalt streets that connected them, this was the place that created the legendary Dogtown and Z-Boys skateboarders. With their requisite bleached blonde hair, tanned bodies, tube socks and Vans, these young outsiders are masterfully captured against a sometimes harsh but always sunny Southern California landscape.






















(Photos © Hugh Holland)

5 comments:

  1. If the REPUBLICANS get their way ... CHILDREN IN AMERICA WILL BE REQUIRED TO WORK .... BUT IT WILL NOT BE THE CHILDREN OF THE MILLIONAIRES & BILLIONAIRES ... IT WILL BE THE CHILDREN OF THE "ORDINARY AMERICANS" !!

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  2. If the Democrats get their way, no one will be working and we will have to eat ration cards for dinner under a portrait of Obama.

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  3. History oh history :)


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  4. sadly no. Automated robotic labor will make working class people obsolete. And Siri-like interactive programs will make most service workers obsolete. Then you don't have to worry about benefits or worker safety of even PAYING for workers............you just build them

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  5. Do you have to get Michelle's permission to suck this hard on Obama's d1ck?

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