Peggy Oki skates Bicknell Hill with 100% style in 1975. 📸 @sbking1 🏁🏁🏁 PEGGY OKI INTERVIEW BY STEVE OLSON (Juice Magazine #54 Dogtown Chronicles - circa 2002) 🏁 How did you get involved with the Zephyr crew? Once the urethane wheel came out, my brother was taking wood-shop and he made me a little skateboard with Cadillacs, so I started skating again since it was a little bit safer. Then I started surfing. Once I started surfing I thought I might as well skateboard, too. I saw the guys skateboarding over on Bicknell, so I started skating on that hill… One day when I was skating there one of the guys came up, It might have been Jay, and said, “Hey, do you want to be on a skateboard team?” I said, “Oh, okay. I guess I’ll check it out. So, I went over to the Zephyr, Jeff Ho shop and talked to them. And then they asked me if I wanted to be on the team. 🏁 How was it being the only girl on the Zephyr team? I didn’t really think much about being the only girl. I really just had so much fun skateboarding. Watching these guys and skateboarding with them, and going to the schools like Bellagio, Revere and Kenter. Kenter was my favorite. 🏁 Tell me about Del Mar. It was really fun, it was great. It was controversial. That was the big thing about us being at Del Mar. 🏁 You skated against girls who were even more gymnastically inclined than the guys and you’re out there doing berts and slides. What was the controversy with the girls making a protest? Skip said, “The girls were protesting you. They said you skate like a guy”. One of the judges, Dale Dobson, told him that I was skating as smooth as some of the guys. 🏁 What place did you get? First. 🏁🏁🏁 #girls #shred #zgirl #zboys #zephyr #competitionteam #skate #bicknell #santamonica #california #1975 🏁🏁🏁 (at Santa Monica, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1KCMgWlhwh/?igshid=1u22paegsvdyg
