Calling out Jeff Kendall
May 9th, 2008 by Kilwag
That’s right, we’ve got a 20+ year old beef and we’re calling out Jeff Kendall. Sure, he’s probably got a life and has moved on, but we haven’t, obviously. I would say we’re tryng to embarass him with these old pictures, but there isn’t really anything embarrassing about them, considering he was 14 years old when these were taken by friend Bob Pribble Swamp:
Kendall is 14 years old in those pictures. The year is 1981 and he’s riding my old Losi Variflex deck on some ACS trucks and Kanoa Rollout wheels. Why do I remember all this useless information? The Roxbury Ramp was located at Chip Jones house in Indianapolis, IN.
Check them out after the jump.
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May 9th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
…is that ramp next a golf course (seriously I want to know, I used to live there)? Did you go see the Zero Boys after ripping all day?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Nope, the ramp was next to a tennis court (is that suburban enough?), and yes, we would go see the Zero Boys after ripping all day…If Pribble told you he took these pics he’s a liar…I took them!
May 9th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Wow! Anyone else remember the “half shirt” phase of the 80s?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I got them from Pribble, just assumed he took them. Should the copyright read “Swamp?”
I’m rocking the Half shirt right now. it’s Casual Friday!
May 9th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
We used to stare at Pribble’s Sims Flagship add on the back page of Thrasher- wasn’t it a backside boneless in some ditch?
May 9th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Shirt fads in the 80’s; Went from full shirts, to half-shirts, to no shirt and tying them around your waist, and finally to wearing just the sleeve on your head.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Good fashion call, Livmo, never thought about it like that…as a proud member of Team Beer Gut and so as to not scare the street flippers at the local park, I’m back to wearing the full shirt; Swamp took those pics, for sure, and he was either too lazy for too into little boy butt to to snap that one from the other side of the ramp; Brad, did we ride together back in Indian-no-place…that ditch was called the Dump and located just off of Arlington Ave., near 56th St.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I thought the Flagship ad was Chris Black at Del Mar… diff ad?
May 9th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Bob- I was in Peoria Illinois, I joined a hardcore band with the Stepe brothers (Negative Element), and started skating in ‘83. We were devastated not to make onto the Master Tape comp. out of Indiana. So didn’t skate with you but knew of you a little bit. I lived in Indy in 2001 for about a minute before heading to Portland.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Brad, I could swear that your band Negative Element played in Indianapolis in ‘82 or ‘83, perhaps with Swamp’s, Kendall’s and my band Poison Center, and that we all raged at Swamp’s house after the show and rode the Roxbury Ramp the next day. You guys had a record out called Yes We Have Bananas or something like that, right? (I still got that vinyl in my collection.) Help me out here. Too bad Swamp is away the weekend or he could straighen me out…Livmo, go check out the back cover of the Jan. ‘84 Thrasher
May 9th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Bob- your right about all of those facts- only I joined that band after that 7″ and gig in Indy. That 7″ has been going off pretty high on ebay lately, I’ve got like 4 of ‘em sitting around from the old days. We used to skate in Springfield, Ill. a lot in ‘83 at Bruce’s ramp, but I don’t think you made it over there.
May 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
legend
May 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I can’t remember if we opened that show, but afterwords Negative Element came to my house and the bass player showed us his talent of lighting farts on the flat-bottom of our ramp. My dad was pretty psyched when he woke up the next morning and found Negative Element sprawled all over the house and eating pancakes. Those guys were great, both as a band and as people.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
pribble is one sexy dude. is see him skating all the time and i’d love to f@!k him. then he could hold me in his big strong arms and tell e stories about the old days.