Larry Stevenson – RIP
Larry Stevenson,founder of Makaha Skateboards, publisher of Surf Guide and Poweredge Magazines and inventor of the kick tail passed away at age 82. RIP indeed.
Update: Obituaries in the NY Times and LA Times.
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- jonathan skeeter: Also came out in a 1986 issue of Freestylin' BMX magazine w/ a story about Mark Skateboarding gots NO love for BMX...
- HOWARD MARTIN-TAYLOR: Lucky man, I had a Skuda LA when I was a kid, again, my prized possession, but was stolen when I was 15 years old, I was devastated. I am also 58 years old and would love to find another one....
- Leslie Warren: I’ve just found this, I’m a 58 year old surveyor and I’ve got one of these, I bought it new in 78/79 by working three paper-rounds when my parents banned from skateboarding on safety grounds, st...
- Ryan M Wheeler: Love that Steve Caballero did a ripoff label of this logo for his band Urethane… 🤘...
- Kilwag: https://skateandannoy.com/contact/...
- Chris: How do I get hold of you …. I found another even better one !!...
- Mike Smith: I rode with Roy in 77. He nicknamed me Silicone. I was the kid with the long blonde hair. Just wondering if you have any films that I'm in....
- jonathan fairley: Have you still got them?...
- Steven Leto. Jr.: That's awesome.I skated for sunshine house from 74 to 79.We were there almost everyday.We got to skate it before it opened and when skateboarder magazine came there we got our pics in it.I always skat...
- Rick Briggs: My first wide deck was a crappy AISI Viper! Thanks for posting this, I've been trying to find it online for years. I asked my parents to get me a fat board from the states when they went to Hawaii I t...
- Wes: Precious find...
- Tim Tempest: I had a Pacer..the little yellow cambered fibreglass model..ACS 651 trucks & Gecko 5 wheels.. My brother,he had the mahogany deck...same trucks & wheels but two totally different boards..The ...
- Bridgette: Million Bradley, You asked if Go Skate produced any skate videos. "Quimby Productions" ran the skate contest and made videos of the contest. Quimby( Matthew Oldham) had Dale Smith and many other...
- Todd: Great memories of taking two bus transfers to make it to Gremic Skates in Los Gatos. This is late 70’s. One of my most cherished skateboard deck is an unused Pegasus Deck. This was Gremic in-house...
- Buddy: I have that spider deck that's never been drilled for trucks...
- Kilwag: Let's see some pics! Use the contact email if you wan tot send them....
- Mark Van Doren: I have a copy of this softcover booklet....
- ronny roth: First welded prototype Chromoly trucks made 1986-87. Hi from Sweden Living and working in Chula Vista between 85-87 (back in the days🤔) I got to weld the first 300 Chromoly trucks for a guy I do...
- Cristian: I have parts,...
- Pedro: Living in Bradford on Avon we saw these early on. A school friend also tried out a set of oval shaped prototype Boosters that I think were aimed at bowl riding? Loads of parents worked at Avon so a lo...
- Steve: My daughter found one of these in an antique toy store. I bought it and am working on it now. It was still unassembled and I found a sheet at the bottom of the box. It says it was made by Invaders mod...
- Tom Browne: I was the publishing partner for ILB. Almost all copies of that issue went to one longboard manufacturer in San Diego. Sadly the boys in the shipping area didn't approve of a woman on the cover of our...
- Michael: Having just moved to Eagle Rock CA. From Puerto Rico in the summer of 1968 the following summer (1969) for my birthday I received my first skateboard, The Black Night, complete with the infomous clay ...
- Wes: Cool...
- John Lamb: The bottom board with the surfer on it is my Arte from the iconic “five Summer stories”…. The name of the cartoon called rocket 88 by John Lamb....
- Dave: Hi, did you source one of these? Thanks...
- Terrence (terminator) Bunce: I skated the little & big bowl back in the late 70's & I caught the fever.... My 1st skateboard was a Sears yellow plastic board with a grainy finish, urethane open bearings wheels..... no wa...
- Scott Garig "Sunset Surfer": I first went to Val Surf in July 1974, when it was next door to the liquor store on Whitsett & Riverside. I sold them my 9'4" Morey Pope board with a John Beck design, because I was going into the...
- Michael Hall: I have a vintage Continental skateboard with the fiberglass prism board and all original parts that I am interested in selling as I no longer ride it. Anybody interested please contact me at the email...
- Bucky: Huh? The one on the left is the original quicksilver from 87 no?? The right is screen printing, the left was before that....I'm just trying to sell my left one...or is that what you are saying? I can'...
- Kilwag: Read and Destroy! I have some of those mags I was planning to add to the gallery but I don't have a scanner big enough to fit those oversize pages....
- Dan: I had this cut out of RAD magazine on my bedroom wall amongst a thousand others...
- greg: are you still a bootlicker...
- Johanna Garsenstein: I hung with Joel there in the 80s. I would LOVE to reconnect with him. If he sees this, Johanna sends her love ❤️...
- Ken Matter: How many of these were made?...
Truly an innovator. Thanks Larry for all you did. R.I.P.
RIP in Peace Larry – Thanks for the kicktail!
my first board was a makaha. 1977
Respect!
Thank you Skate and Annoy for recognizing Larry Stevenson and his place in skateboard history. You can read two obituaries; one in the NY Times and the other in the LA Times.
Thanks for the links, I’ve added them to the main post.
Makaha commander was my first clay wheeled board, nice to get off the steel wheels.
Thanks for adding this to your site.
My first board was a 29″ ash Clay Wheel Makaha(Xmas1963)w/Colorado Ave.,Santa Monica sticker/decal.It came in a thick plastic bag .I think it was $20-blew my folks minds. I found a 29″ on Ebay which I’m going to restore lightly – Question,the 1st Makaha Chicago wheels seem to have come in different colors,but mine were red brown-Seem right ?