Vintage Skateboard Magazines
November 13th, 2007 by Kilwag
One of the things on my long list of “eventuallys” for this site is a gallery of dead skateboard magazines. I have a milk crate in my basement with some old skate rags, and I thought I had a few gems that would surprise people. Well I don’t have anything compared to Vintage Skateboard Magazines. It’s a work in progress without a lot of bells and whistles. What it does have are covers of skateboarding magazines from the 60’s to the 80’s from the US, UK, France, Australia and Japan. Some of the UK issues have scans of inside pages as well. There’s a lot of interesting documentation there, my only beef is that the scans aren’t larger. If it were up to me, every page would be available, but then again maybe it’s a good thing it isn’t up to me since our gallery isn’t even up yet. Check out the varied and often wacky past of skateboard magazine publishing at Vintage Skateboard Magazines.
November 13th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
I stopped in Lab33,(new skate shop in Tigard) and to my amazement were some of the sickest magazines I had ever seen…They had Jay Adams first cover issue on Skateboarder and some of the earliest Thrashers I had ever seen. Some of those very first news print Thrashers…Way cool in my opinion. Someone has there heart in the right place.