Venice, California...following the implosion of the Zephyr skateboard team in the mid 70's,Jim 'Reddog' Muir & Wes Humpston teamed up to create Dogtown Skateboards thus unleashing over 30 years of the Venice skate/surf mystique that continues today. As their 1977 Skateboarder magazine ad professes, "Our only crime is being original."