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Eric white 04-Oct-2019 05:17
Anthony used to whoop our ass back then.. Sucker punched him in the stomach for fun and paid the price.. Rip anthony roselli jr. That was good dude
shags 06-Apr-2006 10:08
That's me on the right, i was a bummed out little fucker, hahahahaha......
HEATHER 04-Aug-2005 03:33
KELLY JACKSON, ONE OF THE HOTTEST GUY'S AROUND BACK THEN.
CJ 30-Jul-2005 23:05
SOLO was such a hot surfer at such a young age - even the more redneck of the VBW locals had to give him respect - they claimed him as one of their own. He was hanging on the south side of the wall at 10.
There were definitely racist elements among the locals - sometimes you'd hear little comments and other times it showed up as graffiti.
Racial issues were manifesting in gang culture and at school.
As a teenage girl with no obvious affiliation (other than being white) I hung over in the hood as well as the beach, But even the cops would stop and ask me what I was doing over there. I never had too much trouble, unless I was not being smart ie if you're over there after 2am, you take yer chances! I have some amazing memories of roller skate street races in the hood at dusk in summer - intense.
venicepix13-Jul-2005 21:21
the guy on the right on the bike was named adrian.
karra 04-Jul-2005 23:49
yeah... There was always plenty of black folks in venice. My 1st stepdad was black, my uncle too, and I was often one of the few whiteys in a sea of black folks, at least in the hood, and also when the guys used to drum in the pagoda at Breeze (this is early 70s). I grew up watching little kids like Solo, Craig ('Caveman', his sister Connie, brother 'Bobo'), and plenty of other black, brown, bi-racial little kids (like my own brother) grow up. The "venice hoodlum" generation was very mixed race also. But it's true about the "older" surfers (see group #1), they were mostly white, and some of 'em racist too...
venicepix04-Jul-2005 23:47
.One of the nice things about the Zephyr team was that it semed to be making a conscious effort at being multi-cultural/racial/gender. I can only suspect that Jeff Ho, not being WASP, might have had something to do with that. One of the things that I found strange about Lords of Dogtown was the macho latin gang contingent portrayed from very early on. I certainly never did a sociological survey of the cove surfers, but when I arrived in '72 it seemed to me that the surfers were essentially the sons of the white working/lower-middle class families that moved to SoCal after WWII. No Vals, No Fags, No Beaners, was the most common warning seen spray painted in those days...and blacks??!
.....Venice Locals Surf and Skate #1 gives you an idea of the crowd at the time. VLS&S#5 (which is actually second chronologically) shows that things are starting to liven up! Solo and "caveman" [00220], Jaime [00222], Bruce[00223Left](did I get the name right) were four guys who showed up at exclusive southwest corner of the wall and held their ground!!
vbwl 28-Jun-2005 00:01
We spent our whole lives laughing, sitting on those benches talking shit and in a constant belly ach. Your cheeks would hurt. We were good natured kids..
In that pic, there is something about the eyes that tell a different story, there is some real seriousness in everyones eyes.
Guest 27-Jun-2005 05:59
Hey, there's still two olympic benches at the northern most end of the bike path (north end of Will Rogers beach parking lot).
Guest 24-Jun-2005 03:21
he has been in a grip of shit
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919255/
imdb is the source , lol

vbwl 23-Jun-2005 09:02
Shags was on Doogie Howser or something like that.. CTB
Guest 23-Jun-2005 06:35
Last time I saw yancy he looked just like John Walker ( Taliban) . or about to try out for the remake to jesus christ superstar
Guest 22-Jun-2005 17:03
man, everbody looked so different in the 80s....
vbwl 22-Jun-2005 00:23
And Yeah, Yancy, I was trying to remember his name
Guest 21-Jun-2005 23:19
yeah thats his name ,Kelly ! Derek and Kelly are brothers .Anthony is of zero relation to them. Peter could be . I'll hit up Kelly about it next time I see him .
vbwl 21-Jun-2005 21:19
I don't know if they lived there but they were apart of that family, that blonde kid Kelly was his nephew or cousin
Guest 21-Jun-2005 04:20
naw dude Anthony lived on brooks. Eric a camper. peter was just some kid that popped up he was straight trailor park from some hic town. He was Buckwild. he had zero supervision Anthony and eric took him under their wings of protection. eric was lil back then huh? I try to tell people but they don't remember. He's a big kid now. Peter was like OUR lil mascot for "The Wall" .
He had such a big heart, he had NO FEAR. I wonder where he is now. that was Derek and his lil brother ?(bad with names)that lived on top of the townhouse. he worked at the town house bar as a bar tender for awhile later on in his life . It was their grandpa that owned the town house. maybe he was related, but I don't think so.I think they took him in some nights.

Peter could make BeBe's kids seem like catholic school kids during sunday school if he wanted to
he must have been like 8 years old talking shit and terrorizing .
Tell me you were there for one of the best brawls
Anthony vs. Baby Ray !! It must of lasted 20 minute (Which seemed like 1 hour)
It was classic toe to toe.
vbwl 21-Jun-2005 00:20
Man I had skating as fast as I could through the crowd down to a science..
R.I.P. Anthony, That was gonna be my first guess but it looks alot like Eric when he was older. Anthony was Peters older brother right? They lived above the Town House Bar
Mil Mil 20-Jun-2005 22:37
from left
Kelly, ?,Anthony Rozzelli !! R.I.P,Yancy aka 3c,Henry aka shlep rock,? forget dudes name ,
and Morgan Weisser aka SHAGS CTB !! lol The benches were the shit . Kelly remember when we would be at the wall on a sat or sunday and somebody would yell out lets hit the benches !! we would all hit the boardwalk tourist would be scared not knowing if they are about to get run over . (the sound of 20 skaters on the boardwalk doing slides and ollies was pretty loud to a person fresh off a plane, lol But when we would "punk "the people to get off a bench it was comedy . say a person was sitting on it . one of use would do a high speed boardslide on the piece of bench they were not using . that usually got them to leave lol Anthony was KNOCKING out grown ass men at this age .
Mil Mil 20-Jun-2005 21:55
from left
Kelly, ?,Anthony Rozzelli !! R.I.P,Yancy aka 3c,Henry aka shlep rock,? forget dudes name ,
and Morgan Weisser aka SHAGS CTB !! lol The benches were the shit . Kelly remember when we would be at the wall on a sat or sunday and somebody would yell out lets hit the benches !! we would all hit the boardwalk tourist would be scared not knowing if they are about to get run over . (the sound of 20 skaters on the boardwalk doing slides and ollies was pretty loud to a person fresh off a plane, lol But when we would "punk "the people to get off a bench it was comedy . say a person was sitting on it . one of use would do a high speed boardslide on the piece of bench they were not using . that usually got them to leave lol Anthony was KNOCKING out grown ass men at this age .
vbwl 20-Jun-2005 08:17
The World Famous Olympic Benches! (skaters around the world talk of those benches as being the best for skating)
Guest 20-Jun-2005 07:57
I'm on the left, Shags on the right, Damn I'm a blank even though I know every one of them, Think that is Eric White with the Thrasher shirt, Shlep Rock standing,
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