PRESS RELEASE 12/21/2005   Olliewood, the Oxford Dictionary and More     Dogtown, U.S.A.   June 12, 2005 By DAMIEN CAVE New York Times     Citizens with seniority! Jan Ascanio   Nestled in a warehouse in Hollywood, Florida, they meet. Tuesday and Wednesday nights aren’t spent at home watching television or out at the bar betting on football. They’re spent at “OllieWood,” their training ground.     Cover story in Miami Herald 04   An icon of the skateboarding world reaches immortality in the Oxford English Dictionary BY NICHOLAS SPANGLER Posted in The Miami Herald on Fri, Apr. 16, 2004     Ollie Rides Again   Ollie Rides Again The man who changed skateboarding forever skates in Hollywood -- Florida, not California BY REBEKAH GLEAVES     Alan Gelfand 15 years old, rides for Powell/Peralta   SkateBoarder Magazine Vol. 5, #6 January, 1979 Few skaters ever reach that plateau of innovation where their peer group so recognizes their singular accomplishments and names a maneuver after them.     Alan "OLLIE" Gelfand 1999 interview   Alan was born in 1963 in New York. His family moved to Florida when he was five.     SkateBoarder Magazine Interview June, 1979 Vol. 5, #11   Hailing from the Hollywood, Florida area at age 15, Alan Gelfand represents the progressive cutting edge of the sport.     Article by Stacy Peralta, 1999   It was the summer of '77. Probably. I was on a skate-tour on the east coast of the country headed by photo editor Warren Bolster of SkateBoarder Magazine.

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