History Lesson: The Gonz Gap
by Joel Rice [December 21, 2011]
Most students of skateboarding history know that San Francisco, California's Embarcadero Plaza -- located at the foot of Market Street -- was once a Mecca for street skaters. During the plaza's peak, in the first half of the 1990s, skaters from across the globe would flock to its, seemingly built-for-skating, cement ledges in varying formations.
Though the Embarcadero is sometimes associated with the heyday of the baggy pants/small wheels era, the plaza's preeminent challenge was not some glorified curb, or lowly set of stairs, but a fearsome space formed between a wave-shaped retaining wall and a raised, concrete platform. That space, a huge distance to clear on board for that era, became known to our kind simply as "the Gonz gap."
From 1990 through 1996 there was almost no surer wa..... [read more]
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