Legendary San Francisco skate spot China Banks is no more. The spot was apparently not popular with the community but oddly enough it had nothing to do with the skateboarding and more to do with the use of the rest of the space. Makes no difference now… Video from KPIX after the jump.

After adding the first issue of 312 zine from 1990 to the zine gallery, a reader sent in some pictures and details about a Welfare Skateboards deck he bought from Sluggo. There’s an ad for Welfare in that issue, so that definitely tracks. However, there’s also an ad for Sluggo Skates… So I’m confused, and the fog of time is not helping. Check out some early 90’s Chicago skateboarding ephemera from Matt S.

30 ads from the August, 1978 issue of Skateboard World have been added to the Vintage Skateboard Magazine Ad gallery. It’s a pretty thin issue for 1978, with only 76 pages. A few of the standouts include an all female cast in an ACS trucks ad called “Girls Get Radical Too…“, Starstick, Lazer Truck Stabilazers, and a Vision ad featuring a pro model for 7 year old kid named, Aaron Wienenga. The deck is supposed to be “designed for the younger rippers of today!” The picture of the deck does not have his name on it anywhere, so who knows if it was just a prototype for an idea that they never committed to. A quick google search turns up nothing.

PHOTOS NEEDED! I can’t find any pictures of this peanut shaped skateboard made by Nash anywhere, except for this scan of a JCPenney catalog from 1987. The only reason I can tell it’s made by Nash is the product listing says it has XR-2 trucks. Image searches return a thousand Peanuts™ boards, and “Peanut shaped skateboard” gives you Nutter Butter and Rollo skateboard cookies.

This isn’t a clickbait article, it’s a Roller Derby sales brochure from 1964. I found a pdf on my hard drive dating back to 2010, and the meta data revealed it might hav come from someone named Benjamin Marcus, so I’ve sent an email asking for more info. The scans show hole punches for placing the pages in a binder. Unfortunately, it looks like some of the pages were cut at some point to fit in the binder. The middle section contents sometimes gets cropped.

You know we’re big fans of novelty skateboard products here at Skate and Annoy, especially if it involves good packaging. NHS recently released Dirt Tires under the oJ’s brand, and these certainly fit the bill at 70mm and novelty treads on the running surface. They’re designed for “on and off-road shenanigans” and have “engraved treads for extra traction in wet and dry conditions.” Extra traction? Sure. Maybe. Doubtful. Fun? Yes! S&A reader Alec Brown recalled a similar version and tracked down “Stomper Treads” that appear to be identical except for the Road Rider brand name, another NHS brand. Stomper Treads were released circa 2011.

The Gliderboard from Axtion Systems is both improved and lower priced, which means we somehow missed the first coming of this crazy tuck. It’s pretty much the same thing as a Z-roller truck with the addition of the grinding groove, as made famous by Gullwing. But hey, what about those funnel shaped wheels? The glider board is engineered(?) to keep you locked onto the coping, but not grinding it.

The July/August issue of Osider Magazine has a nice eight page feature on the history and legacy of skateboarding in Oceanside California. The cover features a 1985 photo of Mark Gonzales from the vaults of J. Grant Britain. Osider is one of those local lifestyle mags funded by ads from local business. It’s a fluff piece typical of these types of publications, but the photos are good and there’s even a Steve Rocco sighting. You can read the entire issue online.

I added the first 4 issues of Bodyslam to the zine gallery, which makes the collection complete. These issues are from retouched scans of the original pasteups used to photocopy the zine. Issue 3 was a crazy one. It had a screen printed cover and some color copies mixed in with the black and white pages. Bodyslam was (and is) mad by friend and former contributor to Skate and Annoy Mark Conahan, who probably would have thought I was soft had we met back then. Mark offers a perfect-bound compendium of reformatted Bodyslam reprints, or you can download high quality scans of the original here.

Heroin Skateboards reigns supreme when it comes to non-traditional skateboard shapes and sizes, and now they’ve added the Wingee Thingee which has been confirmed as an homage to the legendary Skatewing that is beloved here on Skate and Annoy. Have they flown too close to the sun with this one? Who knows. It’s not even on their web site currently, and 3rd party websites that do have them seem to have copy/pasted a description that is in error: “taking inspiration from an old-school winged metal skateboard and transforming it into a modern curb-crushing machine.” Although there was a plastic version at some point, the OG Skatewing is made from wood. To my knowledge, they never produced a metal version.