Progress in Eugene

Aside from the top photo of the faux brickwork from Jesse McDowell, the rest of these photos are from the Washington Jefferson Skatepark of Eugene Instagram feed. – Thanks to Sarib for the tip.

El Cochino rides again

More oversized skateboard as surfboard action with a wet suit that we’ve seen before, but this this time it comes from Dan Cates and DC riding the same kind of board I mentioned in my original Simon Woodstock post. It was in fact Simon who showed Dan where he could pick up one of these […]

Everything will be forgotten

It’s been a while since I’ve covered the Kings Highway DIY project in St Louis. Much like BSSS before it, Kings Highway enjoyed an existence as an officially tolerated temporary DIY skate a finite lifespan. The crumbling bridge it rests under was built in 1936, and scheduled for demolition next spring. Amazingly, they’re still adding […]

SOTW 12-2-13: Downhill to Vietnam

Although it may look like Kentucky, Ken Henning, took these pictures at the zoo (Tiergarten) in Nuremberg, Germany in 1968. Pictured are American GIs from California enjoying a downhill session. Ken says this was the first time he ever saw anyone on a skateboard. The guys in these photos eventually shipped out to Vietnam, and […]

American Anarchy #6

1986 out of Hinsdale, Illinois

A gift of mud

Those who have homemade concrete and those who help make it, from Elias Parise: A Gift of Mud is a photo and video documentary that sets out to capture as well as communicate the structures, stories, hard work and dedication that each home owner has embedded with in the concrete that lays in his or […]

Death Mag

Three issues of Death Mag added to the zine gallery, dating from 1982-1983.

Ebay Watch: August-October 2013

Crappy skateboard of the month

In this edition we have some Malone skateboards. Malone was a brand that produced crappy skateboards in the 80s, but I really don’t know much about it, besides the fact that they were pretty crappy and my brother had one.  I was riding a Rusher Sports  ‘California Pro’ (even worse than a Pro 90) at […]