Zorlac dallas

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Email required Address never made public. Name required. Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. By the late s the HQ for the company was in San Diego, California, and then a PO Box at La Jolla, California — and just as many people in the mainstream thought punk had died by the late s, so a lot of folks wondered if Zorlac had run its course.

Zorlac was always a cult skateboard company, and it fit Dallas to a tee; in the 70s and 80s Dallas was still a haven of misfits and weirdos , JFK conspiranoids, and entities like the Church of the Subgenius.

Fox and his skateboarding scene in Back to the Future. And except perhaps for Skull Skates , Zorlac did seem like the scariest and most antisocial skate company out there — the bad boys in the pack, keeping true to the punk roots and spirit of counterculture that had carried skateboarding through its darker days.

Check out this nearly-unrecognizable Zorlac ad from the s. This photo essay is a celebration of Zorlac from until , when its imagery resonated with the excitement of punk rock, crossover thrash, and speed metal. A Dallas skatepunk show and ramp ride put together by Zorlac and others. So what happened to Zorlac? In the s there was an attempt to revive and reinvigorate the brand, but that met with ugly legal complications, excruciatingly detailed here. There are great reminiscences of Zorlac here.

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