Skateboard Evolution and Art
The California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica just opened a show called “SKATEBOARD: Evolution and Art in California.” The shot at top is thanks to a friend of Sam at SkateOregon. The exhibit runs until the end of May, 2010. You can catch a description of the artifacts and lenders at the official museum site, and you can see some photos at CtotheJL.com (Photo: bottom right) or The Smogcheck. The “museum” is actually located in an historic house in Santa Monica. The contents appear to be the usual fare, but I never get tired of looking at that stuff.
Evolution (and art) in California? Nice to see the photo of TA grabbing frontside at the lip of the Performance bowl, situated in Harrow, UK 🙂
Thanx Iain, I have that photo ingrained in my head from when I was a kid. I was trying to remember what bowl that was.
It was a seriously burly bowl – 14-17 foot deep, with 4 feet of pure vert. Legend has it that TA carved it on his first run, and came out looking as white as a ghost….