Thanks to Cody Custer for allowing the repost of this extremely well preserved Hobie Super Surfer and the box it came in. Looks as if it shipped directly from Vita Pakt only yesterday… Interesting that the wheels appear to be two separate colors. Vita Pakt did sell wheels in sets under the Super Surfer brand and not Hobie. Look at that box! Ok, Ok… The board is not too shabby either. Model 1466, dontcha know?

Thanks to Dan Hakes for allowing this repost of some old photos from an unnamed skatepark in 1978, possibly in the San Bernardino county area. Concretes Disciples list two dead 70’s skateparks in that county, Colton Ranch, and Skate Crater. If you know, drop the name in the comments. Update. It’s two different parks. The snake run and half pipe have been identified as Skateboard World in Torrance and the bowl is The Runway in Carson, thanks to MC.

The staff of Skate and Annoy recently held a corporate retreat across several locations in South America, compiling a list of the most adorable B&Bs in Peru that I’m dying to tell you about… Nope, that didn’t happen. A friend of mine sent in these pictures while visiting. So in case you’re wondering, it’s legal to skate in Lima, Peru, at least on the bike paths. Or just maybe this is vigilante signage.

– Thanks to Stephen B for the pics.

Legendary San Francisco skate spot China Banks is no more. The spot was apparently not popular with the community but oddly enough it had nothing to do with the skateboarding and more to do with the use of the rest of the space. Makes no difference now… Video from KPIX after the jump.

After adding the first issue of 312 zine from 1990 to the zine gallery, a reader sent in some pictures and details about a Welfare Skateboards deck he bought from Sluggo. There’s an ad for Welfare in that issue, so that definitely tracks. However, there’s also an ad for Sluggo Skates… So I’m confused, and the fog of time is not helping. Check out some early 90’s Chicago skateboarding ephemera from Matt S.

Retro Supply Co is a sells tools and templates for making your digital illustration look, wait for it… retro. They provide a slide show of examples with each offering, and two products, Comic Junkies Tooklit and Inkchamp feature cool little skateboard illustrations. They have Aton of products, I may have missed another skateboard somewhere.

30 ads from the August, 1978 issue of Skateboard World have been added to the Vintage Skateboard Magazine Ad gallery. It’s a pretty thin issue for 1978, with only 76 pages. A few of the standouts include an all female cast in an ACS trucks ad called “Girls Get Radical Too…“, Starstick, Lazer Truck Stabilazers, and a Vision ad featuring a pro model for 7 year old kid named, Aaron Wienenga. The deck is supposed to be “designed for the younger rippers of today!” The picture of the deck does not have his name on it anywhere, so who knows if it was just a prototype for an idea that they never committed to. A quick google search turns up nothing.

PHOTOS NEEDED! I can’t find any pictures of this peanut shaped skateboard made by Nash anywhere, except for this scan of a JCPenney catalog from 1987. The only reason I can tell it’s made by Nash is the product listing says it has XR-2 trucks. Image searches return a thousand Peanuts™ boards, and “Peanut shaped skateboard” gives you Nutter Butter and Rollo skateboard cookies.

This isn’t a clickbait article, it’s a Roller Derby sales brochure from 1964. I found a pdf on my hard drive dating back to 2010, and the meta data revealed it might hav come from someone named Benjamin Marcus, so I’ve sent an email asking for more info. The scans show hole punches for placing the pages in a binder. Unfortunately, it looks like some of the pages were cut at some point to fit in the binder. The middle section contents sometimes gets cropped.

Pep #348 was published in April of 1979 by the Archie Comics Group. It’s got a six page skateboard-centric story called “Board With It All.” (Get it? GET IT???) and an ad for the Sales Leadership Club in which you can earn an Action-tail skateboard. Reggie takes on Frankie Valdez, the “champ’s champ.”