Back In The Day – Page 60 – Skate and Annoy

Solid Surf UK

A reader’s comment on an earlier earlier post led me to check out a site on the history of a skatepark named Solid Surf in Southport England. at first I thought it was just the one (very long) page consisting of some personal recollections and photos as well as a lot of vintage magazine advertisements […]

Safety first.

Scott Starr has amassed an impressive amount of historical surfing and skateboarding films. Unlike some of us (me) who just press a record button, he has transferred film stock to video. And unlike some of us (me), he hasn’t gotten kicked off of YouTube. He used to have a web site but the domain has […]

eBay Watch: February 2008

How was February where you live? Here in Chicago it sucked ass. It has been the worst winter for snow that I can remember, and February was the worst month yet. We’ve hadAbout 60” of snow so far this winter: the average is 40”, making it in the top 5 worst winters in 80 years. […]

80’s Zine Archives: Limozine #3

Published in 1988, Limozine #3 comes to us from the Boston area. There are two mailing addresses, one in East Boston and one in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was put out by the three man team of Jamie Cumming, Sebastian Nichols and Matt Cumming, as listed in the masthead. It’s a fat 24 half letter sized […]

That time, that place, continued

Welcome to the second half of the Sonny Robertson photo archives. That’s Dan Wilkes on left and Jeff Phillips on the right, both at a spot called Flux, somewhere in Texas, sometime in the 80’s. Will there be a third – uh, err, half? I suppose that depends on how stoked Sonny is to dig […]

Skatepunk.net

Skatepunk.net has some cool old skateboarding photos too. Morris Wainright sent me the farm ramp picture and a search turned up the site.

The munchkins welcome Dorothy

Found this funny shot of Alva on Rocket’s MySpace. He’s an old dude in Cornwall, England and has a bunch of old ads and skate photos posted. Are you skill skating? its when tony come over to england to tour some of the local parks the year i think was 1978. he skated ROM @ […]

80’s Zine Archives: Pad Rot #1

Every time I see this cover I read Parrot instead of Pad Rot. Apparently Pad Rot was a spinoff from the zine Endless Grind over “editorial differences.” Who knew that zines could sink to such levels of professionalism? Pad Rot was based out of Barrington Illinois. I can’t make out the writing to read the […]

Name your trick appropriately

It’s not really a slide if your wheels are turning. This is called the “Coco slide” but since it’s more akin to typical stunt driving found on late 70’s TV cop shows, I’d say this should be renamed the Starsky & Hutch. Who is Coco? The guy in the video is named Jim. – Thanks […]