Any who grew up skating in late 70s had visions of Dogtown in their heads. While we may have drawn the Dogtown cross on a few walls in our parent’s suburban home we never took the idea as far as this crew from Idaho, according to a story in the Idaho Statesman.
In 1976, a group of Boise teens were reading the Dogtown Articles and were drawn to the energy featured in the photographs. Among them were Mike Neal, Mitch York, Mike Fortin, Ian Smith, Brian Schroeder and Bob Harper (pictured above). . . .These teens formed a team sponsored by Budget Tapes and Records and radio station KWZ. “We tagged ourselves the Budget/Z Boiz,” said Harper, now 47, who lives in the southeastern Idaho town of Preston and still has a passion for skateboarding. “We read Skateboarder Magazine and we were influenced by what was going on,” he said.
Its a nice reminder that the geography may be different, but in skateboarding the story is usually the same. For the rest from these skateboarding spudmen follow the link.
[Link: Idaho Statesman]
