Julio 204
Encyclopedia
JULIO 204 was one of the first graffiti
writers in New York City
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Julio was a Puerto Rican who lived on 204th street and was a member of the "Savage Skulls" gang. He started writing his nickname in his neighborhood as early as 1968. His tags were never seen by Taki 183, who took the form (the adding of a street number) directly from Julio. In 1971 the New York Times published an article about Taki in which he said that Julio wrote for a couple of years but then got arrested and stopped. It is said that Julio got sentenced to jail time for vandalism, forcing him into early retirement.
Julio 204 never rose to the height of fame
as Taki because he kept his tags localized to his own neighborhood. Taki 183 was the first to go "All City".
Graffiti
Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
writers in New York City
New York City
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Julio was a Puerto Rican who lived on 204th street and was a member of the "Savage Skulls" gang. He started writing his nickname in his neighborhood as early as 1968. His tags were never seen by Taki 183, who took the form (the adding of a street number) directly from Julio. In 1971 the New York Times published an article about Taki in which he said that Julio wrote for a couple of years but then got arrested and stopped. It is said that Julio got sentenced to jail time for vandalism, forcing him into early retirement.
Julio 204 never rose to the height of fame
Celebrity
A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...
as Taki because he kept his tags localized to his own neighborhood. Taki 183 was the first to go "All City".
Further reading
- "Style: Writing from the Underground. (R)evolutions of Aerosol Linguistics", Stampa Alternativa in Association with IGTimes,1997. ISBN 88-7226-318-2.
- "Freight Train Graffiti", Roger Gastman, Ian Sattler, Darin Rowland. Harry N Abrams Inc, 2006. ISBN 9780810992498
- "The Birth of Graffiti", Jon Naar, Prestel 2007. ISBN 978-3-7913-3796-8