If you came straight to the gallery here, you may want to check back through the posts starting March of this year (’09), as I’m starting to post photos there as well.
/>My archive is probably around 20,000 images (mostly slides and now some digital shots), starting back from 1990. I’m slowly getting it all properly scanned for safe keeping, and I’m identifying everything I can. I will be calling on folks to help with that over time. I will be reorganizing the gallery page soon, but here is what you can see for the time being.
SOME of the photos are not great (bad light, off-focus), but worth looking at.
NOTE: To have some difference between this site and my MySpace pics, I’ll be posting earlier photos on GraffitiLA and a random selection on the MySpace site. I’ll try to post a few new each week, but don’t hate me if I slip, because sometimes I’m out of town.
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“Eight” by Charlie, at Belmont Tunnel July 1990. Click on image to enlarge.
July 1990 at Belmont.
Kerse NASA:
Charm, of The Won Ton Men:
Belmont, Summer of 1990: “Excel” by Rayge of VOB (Visions Of Brotherhood. See Fear comment below), who told me the KSNs felt particularly lucky to have a band to hang out to, namely Excel.
Krises and Phable at Belmont late 1990
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The following three shots, of Green, Power and Slick, had to be de-tagged using photoshop.
Power (”Tim”), July 1990, Belmont:
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NASA crew (”Soul”), July 1990, Belmont:
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Frame (”Nacho”), July 1990, Belmont:
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Late 1990 at Belmont. Note Dope on the far left.
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“Pow One” by Power and Bugs by Strip, “Eight” by Charlie (detail of above shot), late 1990, Belmont:
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Another Charm, Belmont, late 1990:
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LOD, Charlie, Frame, Belmont late 1990:
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“Control” by Hyst, Krone and Krane (KNB), Belmont late 1990:
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Panic, Rack, Poize at Belmont late 1990:
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“COI” by Sacred, Belmont, late 1990:
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Stans (NASA LOD), Belmont, late 1990 (thanks to Stans for the ID):
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“SC Krew” by Power and Strip (thanks for the ID, Power), Belmont, late 1990:
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“540″ Pro Sk8 Shop, Echo Park, 2-91, by ???
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ANC, by Angur (thanks to Fear for the ID: see comment below.), Belmont, 2-91:
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Belmont, 2-91, with who I assume is Angur (not Anger CBS) on the left and Benx on the right, both ANC.
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A really crummy shot of the completed Angur Benx wall.
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Charlie (”Ochoe”) and Frame (”Nacho”), Belmont, 2-91:
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Solek of BAM crew (Beyond Artistic Minds, oh yeah!, gotta love those old crew names) Belmont 2-91:
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Serv, Perk, Mek and ?, Belmont, 2-91:
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Perk and Mek (those dope colors and letters deserve this closer shot):
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Spar, Panic, Pride, Ware “UTI STP” at Sanborn, 2-91:
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“AWR” by Wreak (Self/Thesis3), Poges (?), Rebel ,Chemist (!):
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Perk (and DS?) “Perzerk” upside down and backwards, Sanborn, 2-91:
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“Munk” by Delo, Sanborn, 3-91:
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“OTR SH” by Dcline and Precise, Sanborn, 3-91. Not a great exposure, sorry.
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“Suno”(?) by Shiver (?), Motor yard, 3-91:
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Belmont, 3-91. NEED AN ID; HELP MEOWT OGs!
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“Soar” by Perk, Sanborn, 3-91:
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Precise and Dcline, Sanborn, 3-91. Note the chrome effects:
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Presk (?) and ?, Belmont 3-91:
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“Myk” by Rival (RIP) and Relm, at Sanborn, 4-91:
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“COI” by ? (ID please, readers), Sanborn 4-91:
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Dream and Benx at Belmont, 4-91:
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Zebie NASA, Belmont, 4-91: Ok, this is a good one. I just me Zebie NASA yesterday, 1-10-09, and he told me that the piece you see below was done backwards, and I flipped it to read “correctly”!
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Spyz, “Imagine” (this), Belmont Hill, 5-91:
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Volt, “Chaka” Sanborn yard, 5-91:
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DP and COI crews (Sacred and Man) at Sanborn, 5-91:
Grim and Bash at Sanborn, 5-91:
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Krash at Sanborn, 5-91: A little story behind this is that Asylm was originally using “Krash” as well, due to his style of playing football, but changed his name out of respect and to avoid those classic name conflicts.
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“Suraza” by ??, Sanborn, 5-91:
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Detail of Relm character in a Relm and Rival production, Sanborn, 5-91:
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New York’s Duster at Belmont, mid ‘91:
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“LOD” probably by mosty Mosh and Volt, Sanborn, 6-91:
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EVERYTHING FROM HERE DOWN HAS FIRST BEEN POSTED ON THE HOME PAGE POSTS
Here’s some early Kofie quickies (with Gatcha sometimes) from my archive from 1994. He’s an example of what happens to someone with talent that keeps pushing forward.
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Check his site Keep Drafting!
A while back, there was a post thread on 50mm concerning Skill UTI. I posted some pics, but in case folks didn’t see them or don’t look at that forum, here they are.
From the Panic Zone, ‘92:
In Hollywood, with Toons, ‘92:
Santa Fe Yard, ‘92:
Same place and year:
Arts District, ‘93:
Late ‘93 out in the SFV with Seltic:
And finally, ‘94 down in the Arroyo with Smurf:
School of Hard Knox by SH, Belmont. 6-94 from here down to the Gear photo…
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Panic’s presence in the letters is clear, as Precise’s is in the character work. Here’s a detail:
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Mural STK has always had an interesting loose style, and this example is from the Arroyo:
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Xpres was a major character heavyweight early on:
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And Nuke’s characters and letters always stood out too:
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Many writers and crews have come and gone, some getting recognition, and others not so much. Here is Gear MDK on Belmont Hill:
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PET crew, Highland Park, 2-93:
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Sure, you’ve seen pics of this, but maybe not so early with good color. Zender and friends, Highland Park, 2-93:
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Very interesting because KGB (Kids Gone Bad) were one of the important first generation crews and there are not that many photos of their stuff. 3-93
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Such on Melrose, 3-93
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Besk and Pale at 7th and Santa Fe. 3-93
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Classic CBS. Mear, Anger, Krash and Unit on Melrose. 3-93
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Pictures continue from March 1993 down to the flick from Power…
Sacred at Santa Fe yard. Always interesting to see cholo letters (COI…) on a cross.
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Xpres and Krash on Melrose. You can see it’s a photo-in-process in that I’m in the middle of using photoshop to remove the posts in front of the piece.
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C2D, “Create To Devastate,” came out of DP, “Def Productions.” Odin, Dazzle and Mel on this bit on Melrose.
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A ton of people painted decent stuff but never became acknowledged names. Care was one of those people, here at Motor.
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Jick, a top early character writer (and he had good letters too) at Huntington Beach.
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Rich and Just195 at the beach.
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Vybe AWR alway had good letters. He also wrote Veo. Here at 7th and Santa Fe.
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I know a lot of people have seen this classic Xpres character, but here it is again. Melrose.
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Item TCS (Tough City Squad, The Chronic Sons etc.) at Huntington.
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Ah, Charlie at Motor. It’s easy to see why he inspired so many.
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Persu (not to be confused with Persue of Bunnykitty reknown). Love this shot because of the guys hanging out with a blackbook.
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Relm at Motor. He was always one of my absolute favorites. This piece (I don’t think I want to know what it’s about) was right next to the Doze and Wen RSC pieces in my book. And if you don’t have my book yet, you’re worse than Hitler. And don’t rack it, ya.
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“Aero” by Tyke Witnes. Great then, great now. De-tagged (de-toyed?) with photoshop.
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This is from L.A. pioneer Power…
**THIS ONE IS POWER AND JER. GOT INTO THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL BUS YARD.
THIS IS ONLY ONE OF 25 AND THEY ALL “RAN” ALL SUMMER 1990. CanControlStore.Com
Just because I came across some of these while scanning (I’m only complete with scanning my slides up to 11/94, and then various bits after that), I thought I’d post them.
This the earliest shot of Fear I have, from 8-91 at Belmont:
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This is the first shot I have of his transition from his previous style where the emphasis was on letterblends, to more segmented/fractured. From 6-96 at Belmont:
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Ok, now he is starting to emphasize a bit more straight block/bits over round forms. From 4-97 at Belmont.
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I haven’t gotten up to the point in my scanning where I can show the earliest example of his fractured “bits and chips” style that we are familiar with these days, so here’s a more recent one from Highland Park, 10-08.
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I’m going back to dates where I was in earlier postings.
Angur at Belmont, 6-91 (Thanks to KEV for the credit correction):
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Besk going silver at Belmont, 6-91:
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Perk at Sanborn, 6-91 (sorry for the sunburn on the right and the crappy reconstruction):
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Ash, Clae and Mr. SGP at Sanborn, 6-91:
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The following images down to the Mek close-up are from July 1991.
I love these oddball cosmik character orphans! ID anyone??
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Angur (not to be confused with Anger CBS), and Dream at Belmont:
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DS One at Sanborn. I gets confusing sometimes, for example, this is DS the writer, not to be confused with DS (Dope Style) the crew. If someone can help clarify this, write in, wouldya?
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Marvel (Won Ton Men) at Belmont. Really interesting to see people bring in different sides of their culture, here showing not only modern graff, but Kanji and either Hiragana or Katagana.
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Perk, Bash, Mek and someone I don’t recognize at Sanborn:
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OK… Continuing with July 1991…
“Eco” by Wist, Sanborn yard:
“Dedicated to Defer” by ??, Sanborn yard:
Angur at Belmont:
Cest at Belmont:
Dream and Drez at Belmont:
Perk the color king, at Sanborn:
More from July ‘91. First, this dope wall from Sanborn with those GREAT Xpress characters and PET.
Pride and Precise at Belmont:
And back to Sanborn, where unfortunately the “S” of this Strip piece was covered by the dedication piece to Defer, although “Trip” is not a bad name either.
Panic at the Panic Zone, 1-92:
Jero at 7th/Santa Fe, 8-93:
Two guys painting (a legal wall for anyone concerned), Jan. 2009:
Tyke Witnes, Jasy and Rich NASA at Whittier and Indiana yard (ELA), 1-95 (this one from recent scans of my slide archive):
I’ll have to get the date on this old K4P landmark in South Central:
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“Last To Serve,” Jimer and Ink5/LTS, RTA yard, 8-94 (sorry the Mark7 bookend character is not in this shot)
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Back to the archives, going somewhat in order from 7-91 above…
A great “get well” piece to Defer, by JackSTN/LOD, (”The original crew-jumper,” as someone said to me), at Belmont, 8-91:
Area DTD/DIS (check their roll calls out in the Additional Roll Call section), Belmont, 8-91:
“AYEM,” as in AM7, by Omen, Belmont, 8-91:
“Kings Of Syle,” Belmont, 8-91:
“Public Enemy,” Belmont, 8-91:
Aero AWR, Sanborn yard, 8-91:
Reap TenSix, Cest and Drez at Belmont, 8-91:
Grim UFK (?), not to be confused with Grem or Grime, Sanborn, 8-91:
Ash and Clae in a BC alley on the West Side. It had been there some time before I shot it in 8-91:
“Bring” (da noise), UNC, Belmont, 8-91:
Angur One, Belmont, 8-91:










Loven the Krises and Phable. I miss the freights they used to kill in the early 90’s……
MLA KILLZ
gr8 site. the RAW-ONE & STRIP FLICK IS LABELED WRONG. THE RAW IS POW-ONE by POWER.
HEY STEVE. THE EXCEL PIECE WAS DONE BY RAYGE OF VOB (visions of brotherhood) YOU CAN SPOT THE CREW ON THE BOTTOM. I WAS THERE WHEN HE PAINTED IT. ALSO THE ANC PIECE WAS DONE BY ANGUR WITH HEAVY INFLUENCE FROM DREAM SMD WHICH WAS A FRIEND OF HIS.
Frearo,
Thanks for the clarifications here and in the “Content” section. Keep me honest!
i wanted ti noe if you could send me a pix that i saw in the book graffiti la i do not noe wat it is called but its a pix of the vergin mary in a skull form and she is crying blood plz and thank you alot
or if anyone eles out there has a pix if that peace can you send it to my email tinkr1217@yahoo.com
Jazzmyne,
Sorry, but I don’t have the resources to send anybody photos (hours to find it, paper/ink costs multiplied by 1,000 guys wanting photos, setting up, you get the idea). Try going to 50mmlosangeles and searching for WAI in the gallery, or Plek or 2Shae and see if you can find it, then you might be able to have someone print it out for you.
HeLLo
Your good siet sprayers ..
WOW
Respect ..
drop in our crew home
Yours greet KiLLa of FTW
LA PLEBADA ST. LOKOS
lovin’ tha reflection piece by NASA.hella dope;)
more AWR stuff please!!!!
I’m working my way through my archive (sloooowwwly, I know) so chronologically on this site I’m not yet to the AWR period, but go to my PICS on myspace.com/stevegrody and you’ll see some of the Aydubs.
this is some down shit
down
GREAT WEB SITE AND FLICKS! KEEP TUNED IN Y’ALL IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS WHAT.
ALSO BROTHERS THE SC-KREW piece WAS DONE BY POWER AND STRIP!
THANKS AND STAY UP!
Power
CanControlStore.Com
excellent work Steve. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. Based on the areas (yards) you have posted, I know you have some DCV pieces in your library that deserve some love.
Thanks again brother.
Rest In Peace Sk8 CBS
that anc piece is not done by angur..it was done by benx…please fix
you changed the wrong piece…
DAM OLS SKOOL LA GRAFF DAMM FRESH KRYLONS DAAMMM THOSE WERE DA DY NIGGGAH
Angur was from VOB as well.
Rayge was also VOB as Fear stated & was from Nor Cal.
some clean shit:)!!!!!!!!!!!
Dam, being from Anaheim,, and having my lil passport for the HB walls,, could have been such an influence,and it was, for a lil while,, seeing NASA, and UTA, and Latin Dream Boys, VOB, CYS, some dude Mask1 that hit the 55 ,,, all those fools, BUT, I just wasted it , traded it for the in thing at that time “freeway mobbing”……….I was more drivin by the rush of gettin up, instead of practice and art……….but i picked up bits and pieces through the years,,,,,, AND I would’nt change the way I did it for nothin’!! Well maybe a lil hahahhahaaaa………. Love my crew and all the peolpe we grew up with, I’ll N E V E R forget all the TAGGERS who used to crush ANAHEIM!! Most of us are in jail, got into gangs, dope fiends???????? I dont care,, I loved that time of my life!! Peace to all the MOBBERS! Bleech 1 DTDIS9
i dont see any pic of the buses or heavens come on now i miss them days paramount B.N. EAST TO WEST COAST BUSTEN NUTS,BAD NEWS,BROWN NATION,
i like your site and what your reppin. i can tell your somewhat new to the game but have the right intentions. ive been in cbs since 88. i have la flicks that can do your site justice. eitherway represent. keep it up
Tren,
I may not have ever bombed, so there’s certainly an OG/insider’s perspective that I don’t pretend to have, but “new to the game”? This is my twenty year anniversary of non-stop documenting of the L.A. scene and I believe I met you at Sanborn yard just after you finished the piece of yours show above from 5-91 (unless it was some thin Asian kid pretending to be you, if my memory serves).
In any event, I’m glad you like the site, but if you don’t have the book yet, you’ll want to get it, because CBS and its history is well repped. You’ll want the book just for the opening photo for that matter!
Let me know what you think.
Thanks for writing,
Steve
Very nice site . I grew up with a few og’s JUST195 ,RICH1 NASA CREW ,SABRE ,ELSE JUST 2 NAME A FEW . . . NEVER REALLY HAD THE CHANCE TO GET OUT LIKE I SHOULD HAVE CUZ I WAS RAISING THE FAMILY U KNOW . . BUT ITS GREAT TO SEE ALL THE HISTORY OF ART LAYED OUT IN FRONT OF YOU LIKE THIS BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE FORGET OF HOW THINGS STARTED HERE IN L.A IM 31 NOW AND STILL PAINTING STARTED WHEN I WAS 12 THX 2 MY BRO AND CUZ FOR THAT . . .KEEP IT UP AND CONGRATS ON A GREAT SITE . . . .
MUCH LUV . . . .NUEM (N.G.A) NEXT GENERATION ARTIST
DOPE, Thanks Steve!!!
Yo, the L.T.S spell out piece @ the R.T.A yard was headed by Jimer, and R.I.P INK5..my boy martin was ill.
indeed,thanx steve..