{"id":17455,"date":"2010-08-20T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T15:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17455"},"modified":"2010-08-20T12:38:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T19:38:28","slug":"horizons-west-zephyr-surf-shop-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17455","title":{"rendered":"Horizons West (Zephyr) Surf Shop Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Randy Wright<\/strong> isn&#8217;t saying much about the closure of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimbio.com\/pictures\/SZwkXJOneHW\/Horizons+West+Surf+Shop\" target=\"_blank\">Horizons West Surf Shop<\/a><\/strong> last month, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smdp.com\/Articles-c-2010-08-18-70161.113116_Dogtown_surf_shop_victim_of_economy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Monica Daily Press<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. But to fans of the <strong>Dogtown &#38; Z-Boys<\/strong> story it was a sad day.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The skate and surf shop, owned by surfer Randy Wright, occupied a modest, one-story building at the corner of Main and Bay streets that was designated a city landmark in May of 2007 after neighbors and skateboarding enthusiasts erupted in outrage over plans to tear it down and replace it with a mixed-use development. The retail space was the original home of <strong>Zephyr<\/strong> and <strong>Jeff Ho Productions<\/strong>, whose founders, <strong>Skip Engblom<\/strong> and Jeff Ho, created the Zephyr Skate Team, which became known as The Z-Boys. . . Wright did not return several phone calls seeking comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess we can&#8217;t expect a retailer to live on the past forever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smdp.com\/Articles-c-2010-08-18-70161.113116_Dogtown_surf_shop_victim_of_economy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Monica Daily Press<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.laweekly.com\/informer\/community\/z-boys-shop-closed\/\" target=\"_blank\">LAist<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Wright isn&#8217;t saying much about the closure of the Horizons West Surf Shop last month, according to a story in the Santa Monica Daily Press. But to fans of the Dogtown &#38; Z-Boys story it was a sad day. The skate and surf shop, owned by surfer Randy Wright, occupied a modest, one-story building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17459,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17455\/revisions\/17459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}