youtube find: Before 1976: How Punk Became Punk

this is not half bad... and in fact very cool in spots...

Peggy Oki on my InsatGram

PEGGY OKI @peggy_oki skating the Kenter Canyon School Yard, the year is 1976. Peggy was known as the only girl on the original Zephyr team, and in fact was just as progressive as the "Z-Boys" when compared to other female skaters. Always cool and nice. These days Peggy is an environmental inspiration councilor or warrior if you must, looking out for the planet as well as the sea and it's inhabitants in particular. Kenter was my local spot, my favorite place to skate, first year of 35mm photography, mostly with a borrowed camera. I was there almost all the time once we discovered the urethane wheel and even more so once precision bearings came into play. It's where i met most of the Zephyr team and many others for the first time. My home base without a doubt. With Paul Revere Junior High banks a close second. #skateboarding #inspiration #integrity #Zephyr #zboys #zgirl #Kenter #GirlsWhoSkate #WomenWhoSkate #surfSkate #Style #BankSkating #WLA #schoolYard #1976 #70s #handOnTheWall #touching #feeling #OldSchool #OG #BadAss #MYRULES

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Skateboarding at Kenter Canyon School in 1976 Paul Constantineau from My instagram

End the work week with an image from where skateboarding practically started... At the banked schoolyards of Kenter Canyon School (it was here, Paul Revere Junior High as well as Bellagio and even Mar Vista, Brentwood and even St. Clemens) One of the most stylish ever PAUL CONSTANTINEAU through the tubes set up one fall day...this photo of mine from the book "FUCK YOU HEROES" and is with all the best in that book also makes a showing in the huge monster of a book MY RULES #radical #inspiration #integrity #knowYourRoots #DOGTOWN #MalibuTube #skateboarding #zboys #Kenter #photography #14yearsold #banks #styleiseverything #style #MyRules #GetTheNewBook

A photo posted by glen E. friedman Ⓥ (@glenefriedman) on May 13, 2016 at 4:52pm PDT

‘GRAFFITI: FUN OR DUMB?’ (1976)

from Tara at DangerousMinds

Here’s an educational film released in 1976 by Counselor Films to teach wild and unruly yoots why graffiti is stoopid. The first minute or so of Graffiti: Fun or Dumb? is truly laugh-out-loud funny.

Using kids’ own arguments (both pros and cons), film presents overwhelming evidence that vandalism is dumb. Shows that graffiti-type vandalism costs over $20,000,000 a year.

The short film is available for purchase at A/V Geeks.

Punk: The Sex Pistols First TV Documentary from 1976

via DangerousMinds

British journalist and TV presenter, Janet Street-Porter has always had a finger on the pulse, been ahead of the curve, you know, has always been able to avoid a cliche. Her career as a TV journalist in the 1970s put most of her contemporaries to shame, as she brilliantly explored subjects and cultural trends the mainstream decidedly ignored. The week Chicago were at number one in the UK’s Top 40, with the vomit-inducing “If You Leave Me Now”, dear Janet was out making the first TV documentary on The Sex Pistols, The Clash and Punk Rock.

Broadcast on 22 November 1976 as part of The London Weekend Show, Janet’s film “Punk” featured interviews The Sex Pistols (still with Glen Matlock), a band called Clash (before they added a ‘The’) and Siouxsie Sioux. The Pistols also perform “Pretty Vacant”, “Submission”, “Anarchy in the UK” and “No Fun”.

There’s some drop-out, and the video tape is a bit mashed at the start, but otherwise, this is an important moment in pop culture history.

Cool English Punk Documentary of the early early years

from The Seven Ages Of Rock series.

"A tale of two cities, London and New York and the birth of punk. Each city created a bastard child that marked the biggest and fundamental shift in popular music since Elvis walked into Sun Studios. ‘Blank Generation’ examines the relationship between the bankrupt New York and the class and race-riven London of the mid- 70’s and explores the music of The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Ramones, Television, Patti Smith, The Damned and Buzzcocks."

watch the almost hour long program below:

Thanks, Dangerous Minds