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One crazy year on the California coast--in 1975 a hippie skunkworks, bred in garages and shacks, launched the modern skater movement. Strap in for a wild ride replete with two car chases, two plane crashes, a massive truck bomb, Colombian narcos, the Mafia, senior White House staff, a gypsy fortuneteller, three straight-up miracles, Jacques Cousteau, big piles of cocaine and naked hippie chicks. Author John O'Malley was in the thick of it all, and he retraces the trip that starts with a bang and races to a melt-in-your-mouth ending.
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"This part of skateboard history is finally in print, Dog Town was not the only story. If you are a skateboarder, know your history. A great read and amazing photographs"
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Urethane Revolution The Birth of Skate_San Diego 1975 Sports John O'Malley 9781467139908 Books Reviews
- Everyone knows the legend of the Dogtown boys (and one girl), the motley crew of teenage rebels who supposedly started it all. Or at least that’s the story according to several self-reverential films that positioned the seedy area around Venice Pier as the center of the universe and those semi-wild kids as its gods. But there’s a different narrative, one that has not been told until John O’Malley’s Urethane Revolution. In O’Malley’s telling, the first – and most important – shots of the skateboard revolution were fired 100 miles south of the Venice Pier, in Encinitas, California. That’s where the elements of surf culture, technological innovation, entrepreneurial energy, and raw talent slammed together and sparked what would become a subculture and industry that swept the world.
In raw, energetic prose, O’Malley traces the origins of skateboard culture from a hair-raising trip in a beer truck, to industrial-scale clam dredging in Alaska, to run-ins with drug cartels in Columbia, and finally to the idyllic surf sanctuary of coastal North San Diego County. That’s where O’Malley and his partner decide to invent something called a skatepark. The book follows them as they stumble through the design process, wheedle the city of Carlsbad into approving the project, consult with a hippy fortune teller, and chase financing up and down the coast, which included a brush with death in a plane crash.
Not far from O’Malley’s skatepark was a place that came to be known as Black Hill, a wide, steep, newly-paved stretch of blacktop that was to skatebaorders what Jaws or Wiamea is to surfers. The book follows skateboarders like Bruce Logan, Ty Page, Greg Weaver, Bobby Piercy, and Henry Hester as they slalom or nose-wheelie (inexplicably called a “manual†today) their way down Black Hill. Other skaters appear in the book too, as well as characters like photographer Warren Bolster, editor of Skateboarder Magazine; trust fund boy/madman Bunker Spreckels; reluctant demigod Tony Alva; race impresario Di Dootson Rose; and the fastest man alive, Denis Schufeldt.
Unlike most skateboarding books, this one is more than a mash of photos and captions. It’s a good story told well. And it’s an important addition to skateboarding history, setting the record straight on points that have been misrepresented until now. And unlike most other skateboarding books, this one will be interesting to anyone just looking to read a good story, too. - This was an easy read with lots of personal stories centering around one of the most pivotal times in skate history. The author really makes that period come to life and had me laughing at so many crazy adventures. I highly recommend this delightful piece of skate history!
- A page turner...hard to put down! Nice job John O'Malley!
- This part of skateboard history is finally in print, Dog Town was not the only story. If you are a skateboarder, know your history. A great read and amazing photographs
