Glen E. Friedman. Marty Grimes, Krypto bowl—1978, © Glen E. Friedman
When Glen E. Friedman moved to California in the early ’70s, the first gift he received was a skateboard with clay wheels. “It was a fad at first,” he recalls. “We got into BMX bikes. Then the urethane wheel was invented, and we got back on our skateboards because you could ride without falling down or getting hurt as easily.”
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Growing up in Los Angeles, Friedman was literally at the right time and place to witness the rise of skateboard culture during the ’70s. He attended Kenter Canyon Elementary School, Paul Revere Junior High School, and Bellagio School: three of the most well-known places for skaters because of the embanked playgrounds for rain drainage. “We rode them like they were asphalt waves,” Friedman says.
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Here he met the original members of the Zephyr Skateboard Team (Z-Boys) – including Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, and C.R. Stecyk III, among others – in the DogTown area of the city. Friedman carried an Instamatic camera he could fit in his back pocket while he skated, and began taking shots of the scene.
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Glen E. Friedman. Jay Adams, Krypto Bowl, 1978 © Glen E. Friedman