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Story Time: This all started when my friend Derek Flood sent me a few photos via text that he had found of Mark Gonzales and Natas Kaupas skating a San Diego schoolyard hip that he knew very well. The perplexing thing was that, number one: This schoolyard was not one of the famous ones from that era, and number two: Gonz and Natas were LA skaters, so how did they find out about and end up at this school?

Well, I assumed, correctly, that Grant Brittain had shot the photos. Grant was TransWorld‘s original Photo Editor from when the mag started in 1983. I sat down with Grant for a couple different interviews, because when Grant started going through his photos from that day, he discovered this crew also hit up the famed School W, Jerabek Elementary, and Grant shot a ton of classic photos. Amazing what can happen in one day, 40 years ago. Listen in below.

Major thanks to Derek Flood and Grant for the closure. For more of Grant’s work, please visit jgrantbrittain.com

This article first appeared on TransWorld Skateboarding and was syndicated with permission.

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