A Barking Dog

Yahoo currently has a pre release of the trailer for the new Stacy Peralta biopic “Lords of Dogtown”. This appears to be a fictionalized version of Peralta’s award winning documentary “Dogtown and Zboys” that follows Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams through the explosive period in the ’70s that set the tone and blazed the trail for what modern skateboarding is today.

For about five years, basically eighth grade through graduating high school I was obsessed with competitive skateboarding, pretty much mirroring the period of both films with my own front row seat in the action. During that time my family owned one of the premier skate shops in OC. Later I worked at legendary skatepark The Big O with the park team and as a park manager. The guys I skated with were the guys I started working in music with, including rehearsing on the QT in the near bankrupt skate park pro shop and arcade in the early 80s. We crosssed paths with those guys a great deal during that period. I enjoyed the documentary and it will be interesting to see the dramatized version. Opens wide June 3rd.

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