https://www.badbillys.com/tags/mark-gonzales/Recent content in Mark Gonzales on BadBillys.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenBadBillys.comWed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/street-skating-rise-1987-1990/Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/street-skating-rise-1987-1990/ <p>In 1986, on a plaza of granite ledges and brick gaps in front of the Embarcadero in San Francisco, Mark Gonzales ollied across a gap that no contest had a category for. There was no judging panel, no coping, no transition — just a flat run-up, a tap of the tail, and a jump cleared over a stretch of pavement that office workers crossed on their lunch break. The spot was not built for skating. That was the point. The gap is still called the Gonz Gap, and the moment it marks is the one where skateboarding's center of gravity began sliding off the halfpipe and down onto the street.</p>