Spotted in near NE Portland, this driveway bank looks like it could be glorious, provided you could clean the decades of driveway moss off the surface. Get your soft wheels ready. I love a good driveway spot.

I added Bodyslam #5 (1987) and the May/June 1988 issue of Focus to the 80’s Skate Zine Gallery. Bodyslam was published by our friend Mark Conahan. You can actually buy a perfect bound compendium of the original 5 Bodyslam issues. I’ve got one, so should you. These two zines offer completely different approaches. Bodyslam is photocopied pure personal expression, while Focus is printed and aspires to be a “real” magazine. There are 63 zines in the gallery now. I was panicking earlier this year because I thought I had lost my box of zines, but I just found them. These are from the collection of Will Heesp.

This one reminds me of the semi-recent auction of the Nash Girl shirt. $14 for an old Skate and Annoy sticker? It is 19 years old… OG? You’d have to back to maybe 86 or 87, and those stickers were photocopied in sticker paper. I’m half tempted to “sell one like this” and list them for $2 shipping included. What exactly is a Z84A? It shows up in a lot of auction descriptions and the closest meaning Google can find is the medical code Z84 which indicates a family history of skin decease. Maybe Z84A indicates a family history of skinning people with overpriced skate memorabilia. I thought I might still have a stack of a hundred or so of these in my basement, but I only have a handful. In any case, be prepared to be blinded by my opulence.

– Thanks to Seth Grossman for the tip.

I added advertisements from the first two issues of Homeboy Magazine, (AKA Club Homeboy). Homeboy was first published towards the end of 1987 and lasted a grand total of 7 issues before morphing into Dirt magazine. It was oversized and had a glossy cover with mostly color newsprint inside. The photography and layout of the mag was pretty good right out of the gate, but it had one major flaw in the eyes of most skateboarders, it covered BMX as well as skateboarding. I only added the 32 skateboard related (or non-BMX) adverts in these two issues. Skateboarding graced the covers but the advertising skewed heavily towards BMX by about 4-1. Spike Jonze was on the editorial staff, as was Andy Jenkins and Mark “Lew” Lewman. A pretty decent magazine with a good vibe, but so much BMX… Check out Homeboy magazine ads in the Vintage Skate Mag ad gallery.

Spotted at Corner Antiques and Collectibles in Forest Grove, Oregon. This is a ceramic type figure of a real dog known as Zelda who had a line of books and figurines and probably other tchotchkes as well. This one is item number 4783 from Westland Giftware. Zelda must have passed by now, certainly the web site has, because it redirects to some sketchy football (soccer) site now. This figure was released in 2002 and is not quite as creepy (or sad looking) in real life as it is in these photos.

This is a pristine looking True Glide Streaker deck complete with True Glide Trucks that might be are called “Python,” but not to be confused with the U.K.’s Python Wheels. This one has been available on Ebay Italy for some time now, for about 200 Euro. It has an extremely mellow kicktail that looks more like a memory of an afterthought of a kicktail, but it is sure is pretty. Looks like it’s never touched the ground. There’s an ad for this deck from 1976 in the gallery too.

I mean sure, why not? Maybe “Baby Unicorns” was already taken, so they went with newborn instead. Another in a long line of cheap plastic crap offered in blind containers. These pictures of a display stand in a grocery store were taken in 2022, but you can still buy these destined-for-landfill gems at the time of this publication. Looks like this newborn unicorn is riding a drop-style longboard.

You should know how it works by now. Usually I’m looking for something else and my curiosity gets peaked by some unrelated skateboard ephemera that shows up in the search. This time it is the Tasmanian Devil by Nash. I was hesitant to believe this was a Nash deck because although the plastics say Nash, I’m not familiar with the “Gold Line” shown on the tail. Red Line? Sure. Gold Line? Never heard of it. Still, it does say Nash on the tail. The top only says “Tasmanian Devil.” These graphics are poor, even by Nash standards. That’s a real Tasmanian Devil in the second slot, courtesy of Australia Zoo.

The Biemme Red Star is a board of Italian manufacture. There’s a company called Biemme that started in 1978, but they seem to be focused on bicycles. Maybe they had a brief foray into skateboard like a few of the other bicycle-centric companies of the era did. A search fro “Red star skateboard” turns up a bunch of unrelated boards. Currently, including “Biemme” in that search returns exactly 2 instances of this skateboard, both auctions cling this is an 80’s era board. It’s got trucks that fit into the bottom of the board instead of having a separate baseplate. That’s not a big deal, we’ve seen that in American boards and Italian boards. The thing that makes this board interesting is the bizarre molded double kicktail, on. appointed nose no, less.

Jughead volume 2, number 37 was published in September of 1992. It features two stories with skateboarding in them, Love Connection, and the Things We Do For Love. There’s also a Sales Leadership Club advert in which you can earn a Nash Beach Bum skateboard.