Can’t you read the sign?
A picture is worth a thousand blah blah blah…
Downtown Portland, Oregon.
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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....
- Seth: RIP to an OG...
- 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...
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- Kilwag: Gah, this reads like A.I....
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- 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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I skated up to the Avalon arcade on Belmont the other day and they wouldn’t let me in with my skateboard, citing the usual bs about insurance liability. What the hell?
I love that sign. “How to clothesline a rollerblader.” Excellent. Though I just realized, the skater is MONGO!!
i went into the SJ library with my board to pick up my wife and kids and they said i coulnt bring mine in. 34 and still getting discriminated against…where is reverend al?
the arcade “ground control” serves PBR in cans and has no problem whatsoever if you skate there/bring your board in.
Yeah Nik, it’s a real hassle to skate in Portland now that the cops are enforcing the “arms-out, mongo” rule on skate routes. You can’t turn the board when you’re pushing, and your arms get really tired. Looks wacky, too. The little kids don’t even notice, though… That’s what happens when government legislates skating… forced kookiness.
Nothing says SKATE HERE NOW!! more than a sign that looks like one of those and when stores refuse me service because of a skateboard it’s like asking, or really demanding, that i session out front right away.
for some reason i have more of those experiences in cali than anywhere else…
My friend and I went into Hot Lips pizza in West Linn, and the manager asked us to leave our skateboards outside. I thought he was kidding at first, and asked him if he was serious.
He stated, “I don’t even let KIDS in here with their skateboards.” This response baffled me as I am 30 years old, and less likely to screw things up than a kid.
Needless to say, we ate elsewhere.
Hot Lips?
Damn, they used to be so liberal.
Then again, so did Coffee People once, but I’ve had to cover my tattoos since I started working there, because of the current corporate owners of the company.
That skater might be pushing mongo; but the arms are pure Gesmer style.
Ya its funny, when I was younger and more of a street skater, if I saw a sign that said no skating I would look around for the spot that I had missed. Thanks signs!
i still have a sign i lifted from the school we were always at. a classic black sign with white lettering “no skateboards, skating or bycicles”
that little kid needs way more pads