It’s a familiar image to anyone with even cursory exposure to surf and skate culture: shirtless, long-haired dudes shredding empty concrete bowls on skateboards in the razor-sharp California sunshine.

In the early 1970s, an insufferable drought left Southern California parched, with its inhabitants anxious to conserve water in any way possible. Many homeowners emptied their pools – giving rise to ...

Understand this: Even if Dennis Martinez knew then what he knows now, he still would have hopped O.J. Simpson’s fence. Skateboarding empty pools was Martinez’s primary pastime in the mid-1970s, and ...