{"id":8564,"date":"2009-06-07T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2009-06-07T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T20:02:25","slug":"the-idaho-z-boiz-a-different-dogtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8564","title":{"rendered":"The Idaho Z-Boiz: A Different Dogtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/zboiz.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/zboiz.jpg','popup','width=600,height=378,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/zboiz-tm.jpg\" height=\"270\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Zboiz\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s suburban home we never took the idea as far as this crew from Idaho, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idahostatesman.com\/life\/story\/794570.html\" target=\"_blank\">Idaho Statesman<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 <strong>Mike Neal<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchyork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch York<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Mike Fortin<\/strong>, <strong>Ian Smith<\/strong>, <strong>Brian Schroeder <\/strong>and <strong>Bob Harper <\/strong>(pictured above). . . .These teens formed a team sponsored by Budget Tapes and Records and radio station KWZ. &#8220;We tagged ourselves the Budget\/Z Boiz,&#8221; said Harper, now 47, who lives in the southeastern Idaho town of Preston and still has a passion for skateboarding. &#8220;We read <strong><em>Skateboarder Magazine<\/em><\/strong> and we were influenced by what was going on,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idahostatesman.com\/life\/story\/794570.html\">the link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idahostatesman.com\/life\/story\/794570.html\" target=\"_blank\">Idaho Statesman<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564"}],"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=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8566,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions\/8566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}