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Detail: Steve Medico’s Lambretta (collection Elker deMello)Dancing Skeleton scooter club co-founder- turned- Che Underground benefactor Elker deMello’s generous bequest of mod-themed photography continues to enrich our understanding of early-’80s San Diego’s scootering classes.

While the pictures are there in abundance — many of them shot at Ski Beach or Seaport Village — details are sketchy on some of them. Can you help fill in the blanks?

Detail: Cheap Hotel on to Superscoot 82-83 (collection Elker deMello)Detail: PB Dennys Dancing Skeletons SC Chula Vista and Mira Mesa crew Superscoot (Collection Elker deMello)Detail: RR tracks of PCH (collection Elker deMello)Detail: PCH Del Mar-Encinitas (collection Elker deMello)Detail: ’80s mods 01 (collection Elker deMello)Superscoot (collection Elker deMello)
Superscoot (collection Elker deMello)Detail: Seaport Village (collection Elker deMello)Detail: Seaport Village (collection Elker deMello)Detail: Seaport Village (collection Elker deMello)Detail: Eric “Captain Freedom” with dove on overcoat (collection Elker deMello)Detail: Conrad Macy with English Beat girl on Parka (collection Elker deMello)

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