I’ve posted about Hooker Headers skateboards before, originally fascinated with a strange looking adjustable truck configuration, and then again after discovering an ad for one in a 1976 issue of Hot Rod magazine. There’s also another Hooker ad in the vintage ad gallery, with more to come I’m sure. This one is a conventional looking skateboard missing the adjustable contraption. What is does have however, are likely some Chicago trucks, Rolls Royce wheels, and a psychedelic top. The seller has a few more interesting boards.

I’ve added 59 ads from the February 1978 issue of Skateboard World magazine, bringing the grand total in the gallery to 1,483 vintage skateboard ads! There’s some good stuff in there. There’s definitely some overlap with what you’d see in Skateboarder, but not nearly as much as you’d think.

You know I love a good vintage Skateboard Derby kit. Why not vintage slalom cones from France? Both are labeled as “bornes” which translates literally to “boundary” in English. On the left, some cones from a company called PVM, courtesy of Tymen Gurvan, who didn’t share any additional information. On the right, some cones from Surf Jack, or possibly SurfJack, as seen on the French classified ads site Leboncoin. I haven’t been able to find any relevant information about either company online.

Mad House Comics #108 was published in August of 1977. It’s another fine example of the Archie Comics group. There’s nothing on the cover but there is a 1 page story or gag at least, and a whopping 3 different sales club ads featuring different skateboards you could have earned by selling crap.

Mark Conahan dug up some of his own old photos from 1978 while he was in the process of helping me identify the skateparks in a different pile of old photos. All of these were taken in 1978 at Skateboard World in Torrance, California. It’s mostly MC and Kevin Anderson, plus a bonus shot of a wee Eric Dressen.

Thanks to Dan Hakes for allowing this repost of some old photos from an unnamed skatepark in 1978, possibly in the San Bernardino county area. Concretes Disciples list two dead 70’s skateparks in that county, Colton Ranch, and Skate Crater. If you know, drop the name in the comments. Update. It’s two different parks. The snake run and half pipe have been identified as Skateboard World in Torrance and the bowl is The Runway in Carson, thanks to MC.

I added a measly 9 ads from Volume 6 of Skate Rider magazine. That’s all the ads there were. You see the other half (more like 65%) of the magazine is upside down and is called Wave Rider. I did not include the surfing ads in this issue, unless they appear in the skateboarding side of the magazine. Skate Rider / Wave Rider was based in Coccoa Beach Florida, and as such concentrated more on the east coast side of things, although they weren’t afraid to cover west coast or international sessions, be it skateboarding or surfing. Craig Snyder of The Secret History of the Ollie was on staff at Skate Rider. Check out Skate Rider v 6 in the Vintage Skateboard Magazine Ad Gallery.

Machine Man first appeared in the 1977 series 2001, a Space Odyssey before getting his own short-lived series in 1978 that lasted for 19 issues until it was canceled. It would be resurrected for volume 2 in the 80’s and Volume 3 in the 90’s. He’s the last surviving android unit of a military experiment, and predictably, the military is out to terminate him. He’s able to produce Inspector Gadget type augmentations to his physical body, but you know, in a serious manner. In this first issue he bugs out in a traffic jam and produces a skateboard in two halves from his feet that lock together, allowing him to escape.

I added a second skateboard contest program to the gallereis, the Hang Ten World Pro/Am Skateboard Championships. Still in the hamper, some 80’s goodness, Chicago Blowout (1986), Seltzer Seltzer V.P. Cup (1987, St Louis), Bluegrass Aggression Session (Louisville, 1988), and the NSA National Amateur Series (1988.)

Cleaning out the old hard drive again. I found an old 2013 auction for the Sidewinder skateboard at the bottom of the image above. My first thought was maybe it was related to the company that brought you Sidewinder wheels, but that seems more like a coincidence based on the quality of that deck and wheels, not to mention two different Sidewinder skateboards currently being auctioned off, both of which have the same logo as the wheels.