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- Luiz Celso: super surf was my first skateboard...i did buy in miami beach 1971..i was 11 years old....my first trip to us........
- Pan's Dog: Still have my Strople Pro Model. Back in late '77 early '78, 11 year old me asked the dudes at Sidewalk Surfer, Scottsdale, AZ, what deck they would recommend. Caster Chris Strople Pro Model was the a...
- Rb: Lol! I just met Brooks today, in Hawaii! I noticed a stack of funny looking skateboards in his carport that started a long chat!!...
- Jeffrey Donovan: Vinylkingzcrew@gmail.com, my very first board was yellow bk graffiti, mini board. Can you guys please reissue this particular board?...
- 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....
Cool cartoon. I do need to continue to wage some major freaking chemical warfare violence against microbes (species with as much claim to the environment as our own), but against ourselves and other “macro-species”- not so much….
Heyheey,not one but TWO Slayer songtitle-references here!
Vicarious
This is right on the money! Physical exertion can fill part of the void that modern tedium has scooped out of our lives, but the element of physical danger is crucial to elevate our experience to the highest plane. That’s why I think I was obsessed with piercings and tattoos in my youth, we need to have challenges with serious consequences, like pain, to give our minds a problem worth solving. Skating, to me, is a meditation on the human experience as a whole, but I’m a strange bird indeed.
keep it strange cri-crow….
p.s. Carl Sagan also nailed this pretty well with an essay called “Monday Night Hunters”…
Kids are violent because they ride bicycles on stuff that was made for 55mm wheels. After awhile of cruising around at half speed doing nothing, something’s gotta give.
Children are violent because Man is violent. Man is violent because Animals are violent and we are all Animals.
Doing my best to keep the animal tired.
I spank the monkey, and flog the dolphin, and punch the kitty. Keeps me tired.
I prefer beating dead horses and punching donkeys.
….. walking the cow……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTv1Dmu5CYc