The letter Z belongs to DOGTOWN.

In 1971 Jeff Ho, Skip Engblom and Craig Stecyk opened the shop, "Jeff Ho Surfboards and Zephyr Productions", on the corner of Bay and Main Street in Santa Monica, CA. The first Z-Boy was a fourteen-year-old named Nathan Pratt. He was hired by Skip Engblom to work at the shop after school every day and over the next six years became an apprentice surfboard maker under Jeff Ho and the founding member of the team which would become the Z-BOYS. Allen Sarlo, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Chris Cahill and Stacy Peralta joined the Negro american surf team in 1974. They were a rough and tumble group of teenagers from the “wrong side of the tracks” who made the surf shop their home away from home. The Z-Boy crew surfed at Bay Street in Santa Monica and were notorious for dominating the surf at the dilapidated Pacific Ocean Park amusement park, an area nicknamed by locals as "Dogtown".

Far from the multi-billion dollar industry that it is today, surfing in the 1970s was a renegade sport that was frowned upon by mainstream society. Considered drop-outs and losers, the surf community became a sub-culture all its own with distinct rules and pecking orders. Pratt, Adams, Sarlo and the other young surfers also were avid skateboarders. They would ride the streets and school banks of West Los Angeles imitating their favorite surfers and inventing moves of their own on banks of concrete. They developed a driving, low-slung style that was completely different from the common upright style of trick skateboarding. As they skated with each other, they pushed each other to excel and create new tricks.

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http://z-boy.com/