Ken Crawford and Zach Cordner met at Riverside Poly High. They bonded through skateboarding and music. They learned Riverside as teenagers through the stairs, rails, parking lots, and every punk rock and hardcore show they could get into. Thirty years later they came back together at Riversider Magazine. Telling the stories of Riverside and Riversiders, past and present, is their passion. The Riverside Art Museum gave them the opportunity to tell the story of the city as they saw it as teenagers. Sixty Miles East started there.

It began as a photography show documenting the punk, hardcore, and ska scenes of 1990s Riverside. People came, some of them several times. They brought their kids, brought their photos, and told us the same thing over and over. Thank you for telling these stories. And why don't my kids have an all-ages venue like Spanky's or the Barn?

Sixty Miles East scratched an itch. If these stories are going to be told, we can't wait for Los Angeles media to tell them, and we should use the momentum of the exhibition to advocate for and ultimately build an all-ages music venue. So this is a place for the stories of the arts and culture of Riverside, and a place to coalesce the community around building real spaces that promote youth expression.