Ah, 1976 – the bissextile year that noticed the U.S. Bicentennial, the delivery of Apple Laptop and the primary profitable Mars touchdown. And should you had been into subculture it was a reasonably groovy yr for California skateboarding, too, as evidenced in a brand new present at Danville’s Museum of the San Ramon Valley.
Jeff Heyman, a photographer primarily based in Orinda (heymanfoto.smugmug.com), spent that yr as a scholar at a neighborhood highschool the place he labored for the varsity rag, The Wolf Print. One in every of his tasks was documenting the skate boarders at Montevideo, a drainage ditch in San Ramon the place, as legend has it, a lot of the fashionable sport of skateboarding started.
In “Montevideo: Skateboarding History in the San Ramon Valley,” Heyman presents 20 uncommon, black-and-white photographs exhibiting what was happening at this pivotal second in historical past – younger skaters from throughout Northern California grinding, ollieing and having enjoyable within the solar, lengthy hair and naked chests and all. Test it out earlier than the exhibit rolls away on June 8.
Particulars: Open 1-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday and noon-3 p.m. Sunday at 205 Railroad Ave., Danville; $5 basic admission, museumsrv.org.
Initially Printed: February 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM PST
