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- Big Steve: What a killer thread! I got on here after seeing a T Hawk CoQ10 commercial that prompted memories of what I thought was a skating exhibition at the V.P. Fair in the Lou back in mid-to-late 80's. So I ...
- Kilwag: I thought that was joke Lance Mountain or Neil Blender made, can't recall....
- Kilwag: Fudge, link busted...
- Bobcat: Yee haw! I skated it last week - awesome mission. It's beyond crusty but there are some workable spots. For anyone asking for the location, I was able to find it using the clues in this blog post. ...
- Sean Landry: Tucker….I used to email and talk with Ellen many times before she passed away from COVID….killed me to find out and I’m trying to learn where she is buried now….i am terribly sorry that your s...
- Brian H: I was lucky to have a girlfriend with great taste who bought me these. Mine were dark blue though. Did these come in a dark blue?...
- Kilwag: Updated this ancient post so the embedded video works again....
- metal mike saunders: not unless being " the best live band in the entire world in early 1978" outside of AC/DC in their own genre and the Saints if they were still playing like banshees -- totals up to a joke. refernece...
- metal mike saunders: yea metal mike here and looking for something else entirely, this page/thread came up via the always unpredictable innernet of googleworld. i typed out a sufficiently totally-biased west coast ans...
- metal mike saunders: Bad Brains? etc. wrong wrong and wrong. in fall 1979 there were FOUR LA/OC/Valley punk bands that were doing ONE MINUTE SONGS. black flag, the crowd, red cross w/ron on drums, and our band the an...
- Alec Brown: Martin Sweeney, unfortunately no longer with us. Passed away in 2017 aged 54....
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- S Hughes: First time I met Sean was when I was a 13 yr old grommet. We had a 1/4 pipe out front, it was maybe 1985. Sean rolls up seeing it and wants to ride. He was a full grown man with a leather biker jacket...
- Duke: This is just not true. We all had 7 ply decks in the 80s....
- TTFD: many thanks for getting this online - and all the other media etc you've got up here, appreciate you....
- death: Replying to this ancient comment in hopes of correcting this but, Tim Tillman is my stepdad, he didn't stick around too long on the scene. I mainly possess vague pieces of stories, but from what I hav...
- Alexander Maielua: I have and use one of these boards. I had to fill in and redrill the mounting holes to accommodate the updated trucks but can't beat this one for a daily cruiser...
- Jason Edward Blood: Suttaheads was my crew. Rodgers, buttahead, chief and jason blood...
- David DiClaudio jr: I got this board hit me up to buy it.... just about anywhere @davidavape...
- Biff Wellingterd: Well… 17 years later, it comes to an end....
- Paul Guttridge: Hi there. Wow I had one of these back in about ‘88. Same knock off colour way as this one. Just bought a genuine brand x re release. After all this time finally got much nearer the original...
- Lucas Pauken: I'm desperately looking for a graphic from a board I got here in like 1990. It was a kids deck, I was maybe 7? I wanna say it had a drawing on in that someone's kid did.. maybe it was a gator deck. St...
- boglung: I bought a yellow double kick aluminum board from Skateboarder. I wanted the camber slalom board but settled on the double kick. It did lots of tricks, but I didn't ride it very long. Sharp thin edges...
- Danny Bourke: Hey mate, the first board with the Tracker truck and black wheels ended up in Australia as part of my collection. It now has the original trucks and orange wheels replaced as it would have been when i...
- Stephen: Tony Mann had a pro model with Bonzer skates....
- Neil Robinson: Hi Looking for a set of orange SK3 wheels for my blue polyurethane Super Skuda....
- Terry: What’s the current day, 2024 value of a Yellow, Mad Rats sticker ?...
- Kilwag: Gah, this reads like A.I....
- Dave Reuben: An original Gator, Street warrior is definitely a good investment. A battered full deck recently sold at auction for close to £22,000. I would love to get my hands one of these bad boys!...
- Wesley C Scott: I have one fairly mint. Great board...
- Marc Prempain: Code of honor are absolutely great. I wonder if Mike Fox is the same Mike Fox who played in Los Olvidados ?...
- Roberto A Lopez: Yeah man howzit. I rode with you, Butch an George W a little at haters alley and aids pool and the little half-pipe, launch ramps, boxes ,railslides we had in N. L B by the railroad tracks right near...
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- kenzie: i know this post is 15 years old, but chop socky chooks was a fucking lit tv show...
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Nobody was kick-flipping in ’78.
yeah they were, just without the ollie part.
Meh… that’s freestyle, it was banks and ditches for me.
78 has room to talk shit on 08’s fashion?
have you not looked at the gear dudes were wearing then?
two words, bro. flyaway helmets.
Hey watch it! A couple of the Skate and Annoy staff still sport the flyaway and they
Speaking of Kanoa Surf, those Kanoa Roll-out wheels were ahead of their time. Rolled outer lip, conical backs and the ‘thane was good. One of the best wheels of that era for sure.
Flyaway helmets is the best you can come up with? What about short-shorts? Tube socks with rainbow stripes? Suspenders? Those flimsy rector pads, and bulky gardening style gloves? Denim padded skate shorts? The jumpsuit Tony Alva wore? Wrist guards? Ankle guards even, There’s lots of bad skate fashion in the 70’s, flyaways weren’t one one them. Though I bought mine in the 80’s so it wasn’t airbrushed.
What about absurdly baggy pants from the 90’s and donut hole sized wheels.
If I could still fit into my tight pants I’d be wearing them, just not to skate in.
Weirdest hip fashion mashup: lowrise skintight rocker jeans that show your boxers hip hop style.
“and bulky gardening style gloves?”
Bulky gardening style gloves rock, especially when you glue on the free Corian samples from Home Depot for slide pucks. I just got a new pair for $1.98!
As seen here.
So the “aint-talkin-bout-love” photo would be less impressive given 70’s garb?
No, were talking purely fashion here. Aw crap. did I just actually say that?
More impressive, on the actual gear of the time.
as i remember it there were girls around in ’78 and there still around now and most dudes would tie a sock around their nuts while standing on one foot wearing lipstick to get an edge up on his competition, sad but true, slaves to fashion? or nature?
Don’t forget mesh team jerseys, sometimes cut to the always-attractive shimmel/midriff length, ala George Orton or Bert Lamar. Pair it with some ultra short Rector Protector corduroys, tubes, and Blazers and that’s a winning 70’s combo right there. Uh, Randy, make sure you call me before you post those slides, eh? Ha.
“Fashion. Never Function”
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Yes my friend people were kick flipping in 1978
Curt! is that really you? I saw John in Hailey last year. I used to skate with you guys at Steve’s South Bay.