elijah berle
2014 city
Brand: Chocolate
Size: 8.5″ x 32.25″
Year: 2014
Artist: Evan Hecox
The deck is part of the eleven piece 2014 City series released in august 2014, that commemorates the 20 year anniversary of Chocolate Skateboards. The whole series features every pro skater of the team in a Los Angeles Landscape and each deck has a letter or number on the nose truck spot, to form Chocolate94. Elijah Berle is standing in front of what seems to be a Berle Burger restaurant. Next to it, we have a road sign for the 101 Highway, which is the longest highway in California. Finally, in the sky, we can see the Chocolate blimp, based on the Goodyear blimp, which retired in 2017. This series is one of the biggest made by Chocolate, with eleven decks. Evan Hecox did the graphics of it and it was obvious to mark the brand anniversary, because he does “probably a good 90% of the graphics of Chocolate”, said Andy Jenkins, former senior art director at Girl and Chocolate Skateboards, in an interview for Green Label.