West 49
Our Canadian readers are slacking. I was trying to find more info on the Jeans West commercial from the 70’s when I stumbled on this commercial for West 49, which near as I can tell is the Canadian equivalent of a Zumiez.
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- Mauro: Salve,io possiedo la prima serie e la seconda serie praticamente nuovi restaurati ššla prima era con I trick imbullonati con le viti ,il secondo ha i perni fusi nella tavola ,appena mi ricord...
- Mauro: Salve,io possiedo la prima serie e la seconda serie praticamente nuovi...
- Stephen: Wow, been searching a post like this for a long time. I actually own the board in the middle of the main photo still. Annoyingly I sold a set of 8 - still brand new Black Jack wheels. I can't even ...
- DatNigga: Are you interested in selling your kidney?...
- kevin marks: i have an issue dated November 1980. i think that's the earliest one......
- Luiz Celso: super surf was my first skateboard...i did buy in miami beach 1971..i was 11 years old....my first trip to us........
- Pan's Dog: Still have my Strople Pro Model. Back in late '77 early '78, 11 year old me asked the dudes at Sidewalk Surfer, Scottsdale, AZ, what deck they would recommend. Caster Chris Strople Pro Model was the a...
- Rb: Lol! I just met Brooks today, in Hawaii! I noticed a stack of funny looking skateboards in his carport that started a long chat!!...
- Jeffrey Donovan: Vinylkingzcrew@gmail.com, my very first board was yellow bk graffiti, mini board. Can you guys please reissue this particular board?...
- jonathan skeeter: Also came out in a 1986 issue of Freestylin' BMX magazine w/ a story about Mark Skateboarding gots NO love for BMX...
- HOWARD MARTIN-TAYLOR: Lucky man, I had a Skuda LA when I was a kid, again, my prized possession, but was stolen when I was 15 years old, I was devastated. I am also 58 years old and would love to find another one....
- Leslie Warren: Iāve just found this, Iām a 58 year old surveyor and Iāve got one of these, I bought it new in 78/79 by working three paper-rounds when my parents banned from skateboarding on safety grounds, st...
- Ryan M Wheeler: Love that Steve Caballero did a ripoff label of this logo for his band Urethaneā¦ š¤...
- Kilwag: https://skateandannoy.com/contact/...
- Chris: How do I get hold of you ā¦. I found another even better one !!...
- Mike Smith: I rode with Roy in 77. He nicknamed me Silicone. I was the kid with the long blonde hair. Just wondering if you have any films that I'm in....
- jonathan fairley: Have you still got them?...
- Steven Leto. Jr.: That's awesome.I skated for sunshine house from 74 to 79.We were there almost everyday.We got to skate it before it opened and when skateboarder magazine came there we got our pics in it.I always skat...
- Rick Briggs: My first wide deck was a crappy AISI Viper! Thanks for posting this, I've been trying to find it online for years. I asked my parents to get me a fat board from the states when they went to Hawaii I t...
- Wes: Precious find...
- Tim Tempest: I had a Pacer..the little yellow cambered fibreglass model..ACS 651 trucks & Gecko 5 wheels.. My brother,he had the mahogany deck...same trucks & wheels but two totally different boards..The ...
- Bridgette: Million Bradley, You asked if Go Skate produced any skate videos. "Quimby Productions" ran the skate contest and made videos of the contest. Quimby( Matthew Oldham) had Dale Smith and many other...
- Todd: Great memories of taking two bus transfers to make it to Gremic Skates in Los Gatos. This is late 70ās. One of my most cherished skateboard deck is an unused Pegasus Deck. This was Gremic in-house...
- Buddy: I have that spider deck that's never been drilled for trucks...
- Kilwag: Let's see some pics! Use the contact email if you wan tot send them....
- Mark Van Doren: I have a copy of this softcover booklet....
- ronny roth: First welded prototype Chromoly trucks made 1986-87. Hi from Sweden Living and working in Chula Vista between 85-87 (back in the daysš¤) I got to weld the first 300 Chromoly trucks for a guy I do...
- Cristian: I have parts,...
- Pedro: Living in Bradford on Avon we saw these early on. A school friend also tried out a set of oval shaped prototype Boosters that I think were aimed at bowl riding? Loads of parents worked at Avon so a lo...
- Steve: My daughter found one of these in an antique toy store. I bought it and am working on it now. It was still unassembled and I found a sheet at the bottom of the box. It says it was made by Invaders mod...
- Tom Browne: I was the publishing partner for ILB. Almost all copies of that issue went to one longboard manufacturer in San Diego. Sadly the boys in the shipping area didn't approve of a woman on the cover of our...
- Michael: Having just moved to Eagle Rock CA. From Puerto Rico in the summer of 1968 the following summer (1969) for my birthday I received my first skateboard, The Black Night, complete with the infomous clay ...
- Wes: Cool...
- John Lamb: The bottom board with the surfer on it is my Arte from the iconic āfive Summer storiesāā¦. The name of the cartoon called rocket 88 by John Lamb....
- Dave: Hi, did you source one of these? Thanks...
