I’ve been (surprisingly) getting a fair amount of feedback on my old Venice image resurrections. Some is from old friend and ex-UCLA-colleague, John, who tells me that he was coming of age then in the Dogtown (aka Venice) skateboarding culture era. Along with many fascinating details of the sport, the music of the time, Venice itself and his own youth as a skateboarder, he reminds me of the 2001 documentary, narrated by Sean Penn, of the skateboarding scene in Venice in the 1970s. Here’s the trailer (and I will try to see if it can be viewed online in its entirety somewhere — perhaps YouTube):