BACK BLOG - LOVELY COINSIDENCE - RAY FLORES @ VENICE

I accidently ran into Dogtown and The Z Boy Crazy Dog aka Ray Flores during my last visit in US. Cruising at Venice Beach we met the old vize dog, and checked out his board gallary at Venice beach in LA.

Ray Flores and me sitting in the back of the gallary at Venice chatting and admiring the old original Californian DOG TOWN skateboard.

I was wearing one of the cool SHIT BRONZ H T-shirts as you can see on the picture (above) and that was what Ray found his quriosity and interest in as we bounced into him. I told about SHIT's "BRONZ H" project, and that I came from Norway, and we started chatting; He told about his own snowboard and apparel brand he had ages ago named "BRONZE AGE" - and stated that Norwegian snowboarding heroes Jorgen Novik and Terje Haakonsen was good friends of him, and Jorgen was PRO for BRONSE AGE back in the days.

This was thrilling and we chatted for hours about Norway, BRONZE AGE and BRONZ H, SHIT and more.

The gallary is amazing, the first skateboards (made by hand) in Venice was hanging on the wall together with multiple PRO models of ALVA and CRAZY DOG himself and many other important for the skateboarding history. It is RAY that did the artwork of the famous ALVA logo... I was amazed and stoked to meet him!

Ray has been on the 70's Pepsi Team and have been World Champion back in the days. He has also many PRO decks. And I talked him to sell me one were he signed it as well. He is a true core skater that influensed street skateboarding in the birht of skateboarding.

Ray signing his own old PRO model (replica)... This one is priding my livingroom!

Ray was super stoked on SHIT, and we have been discussing a lot after this first random meeting. Ray is really keen on having a SHIT FLAG STORE @ Venice...

Check out Ray's Gallary online @ www.boardgallary.com