Jay Adams (R.I.P.), Teardrop, 1976, the first ever published photograph by the great Glen E. Friedman.

It sums up a whole culture, a period of time, puts you (back) in a place you may never have been, but lived through it vicariously, when boys became men and shaped the future of a sport, themselves, and the paths they would walk.

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Glen E. Friedman, accidental, end of roll, first-ever self-portrait, 16 years old, at Marina del Rey Skatepark arcade, 1978.