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Skateboard Action, continued

Sure would be nice if I updated the S&A theme to show tags, and yes, threaded comments. This is the fourth installment of the Skateboard Action book, courtesy of Carl Warren who still does not live in Hood River. Steve Schneer, pictured here, is one of the oldest professional skateboarders around.

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Farrah: Gone, but lives on…

More Farrah Fawcett skateboarding action. Toys from the past. I’d seen the officially licensed “Jill” doll from Farrah’s Charlie’s Angels days, as seen above left. Reader Hung Chang also found this knockoff “Sport Girl” doll that features a cartoon drawing of Farrah.

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Farrah. R.I.P.

Skateboarding’s second (chronological) pinup died today after battling cancer. What celebrity death could possibly top this?

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Nothing Ron Cameron is cool

Ron Cameron was the skater/artist who helped define the public identity of Blockhead Skateboards. His web site features his paintings, graphic design, and very meaty sections on his board design, skateboarding and advertisements for Blockhead Skateboards and other companies like Acme. For instance, his board gallery features Disposable type commentary on the background of the […]

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I left my heart in San Francisco…

…and my camera bag in Lincoln City, for crying out loud. Now I have to drive back in the morning and go get it. I was camping there since Friday. At the camp site there were no less than five kids on skateboards being towed around the camp site behind bicycles, three of them on […]

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For Sale: The golden age of Sims

Let me just nip this in the bud, don’t send me an email asking me to highlight your auction, because I won’t do it, unless it’s a collection of 23 NOS Sims boards from the 70’s and early 80’s, like this one. Wow. 9 days to go and $4k, but it hasn’t reached the minimum […]

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Skateboard Action from Steve Hawk

Courtesy of Hood River’s own Carl Warren. His brother recently gave him this 1987 book written by Steve Hawk (Yes, he is.) with the stickers intact. Check out the wrap around rails on that Staab. More pages after the jump.

eBay Watch: May 2009

eBay Watch: May 2009

Something odd happened this month. I was sorting through the images of the decks, putting them in categories, when I noticed something odd: I didn’t have any 90s decks. That has never happened before, and I could have gone back through and looked for 90s decks, but that would have been forcing it. I normally […]

Tom Knox interview on Concrete Disciples

Tom Knox on Concrete Disciples

There’s a lengthy interview with Tom Knox on Concrete Disciples, with the usual high quality photo work of MRZ. I flaked out on interviewing Tom around the time when the Veterans Division video came out a while back. I just couldn’t think of anything interesting to ask him since I didn’t know that much about […]