Brooklyn Street Skate Spot Happening
Brooklyn Street Skate Spot – Benefit / Contest / BBQ / Meeting of the minds…. on Saturday December 15th. Hope the weather holds out. Sponsored by no less than three local PDX skate shops Cal Skate, Shrunken Head, and Rip City. Maybe there will be a wrestling match in the cage at the top of […]
SOTW 7-9-12: Josh Dorsey
This weeks Shot of the Week is another one from Micah Breshears, this time it’s Josh Dorsey at the Albany, Oregon skatepark.
Evergreen Skateparks
Transworld Business has an interview with Billy Coulon of Evergreen Skateparks, the man/entity behind the huge concrete boom at Windells.
Bird is the word
Robert Selph in Albany, Oregon. Photo by Micah Breshears. Extra finger after the jump.
Sponsor Luv: Travis Augustine for Merde
Merde-y Merde merde. Travis Augustine flows on flow in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Holy cow, I guess the skatepark is still open. What’s the sitch, Egbert? “M.” “ake.” “Make.”
Brooklyn Street Benefit Redux
What a difference a day makes; Some more information, a new flyer, and now the beer is free. This Brooklyn Benefit will be to help fund a new miniramp section behind the back 4ft pocket to the sidewalk in the asphalt section. We want to try and raise $3,000, and although it will take a […]
When I went to school…
Youtube user Jopomojo has a couple 8mm transfers of late 70’s footage from the old skatepark in Olympia, Washington. It may look familiar to S&A readers who remember a past SOTW from Dan Hughes. (Hi Dan.) These stills have a nice quality to them. Digitized VHS transfers of 8mm film. Top shot look looks like […]
Sponsor Luv: Merde in Battle Ground
A day in Battle Ground with Merde Sakteboards: Jesse McDowell with some local BG skaters: Austin, Chris, and Old School Ken. Didn’t catch Austin’s buddie’s name, and I don’t know if people call Ken “Old School Ken”, but it seemed like he needed a nickname. Who doesn’t. I always wanted a cool nickname like “Skeeter”, […]
SOTW 10-3-11: Matt Lee
This installment of Shot of the Week features Matt Lee at a high school in Portland, Oregon. I’m trying to come up with a pun or play on words for No Child Left Behind, but it’s not in me. Noprize to the best reader contribution. Thanks to Joe Stevens for the photo. Enlarge-o-rama.
Recent Comments
- Kilwag: I thought that was joke Lance Mountain or Neil Blender made, can't recall....
- Kilwag: Fudge, link busted...
- Bobcat: Yee haw! I skated it last week - awesome mission. It's beyond crusty but there are some workable spots. For anyone asking for the location, I was able to find it using the clues in this blog post. ...
- Sean Landry: Tucker….I used to email and talk with Ellen many times before she passed away from COVID….killed me to find out and I’m trying to learn where she is buried now….i am terribly sorry that your s...
- Brian H: I was lucky to have a girlfriend with great taste who bought me these. Mine were dark blue though. Did these come in a dark blue?...
- Kilwag: Updated this ancient post so the embedded video works again....
- metal mike saunders: not unless being " the best live band in the entire world in early 1978" outside of AC/DC in their own genre and the Saints if they were still playing like banshees -- totals up to a joke. refernece...
- metal mike saunders: yea metal mike here and looking for something else entirely, this page/thread came up via the always unpredictable innernet of googleworld. i typed out a sufficiently totally-biased west coast ans...
- metal mike saunders: Bad Brains? etc. wrong wrong and wrong. in fall 1979 there were FOUR LA/OC/Valley punk bands that were doing ONE MINUTE SONGS. black flag, the crowd, red cross w/ron on drums, and our band the an...
- Alec Brown: Martin Sweeney, unfortunately no longer with us. Passed away in 2017 aged 54....
- Seth: RIP to an OG...
- S Hughes: First time I met Sean was when I was a 13 yr old grommet. We had a 1/4 pipe out front, it was maybe 1985. Sean rolls up seeing it and wants to ride. He was a full grown man with a leather biker jacket...
- Duke: This is just not true. We all had 7 ply decks in the 80s....
- TTFD: many thanks for getting this online - and all the other media etc you've got up here, appreciate you....
- death: Replying to this ancient comment in hopes of correcting this but, Tim Tillman is my stepdad, he didn't stick around too long on the scene. I mainly possess vague pieces of stories, but from what I hav...
- Alexander Maielua: I have and use one of these boards. I had to fill in and redrill the mounting holes to accommodate the updated trucks but can't beat this one for a daily cruiser...
- Jason Edward Blood: Suttaheads was my crew. Rodgers, buttahead, chief and jason blood...
- David DiClaudio jr: I got this board hit me up to buy it.... just about anywhere @davidavape...
- Biff Wellingterd: Well… 17 years later, it comes to an end....
- Paul Guttridge: Hi there. Wow I had one of these back in about ‘88. Same knock off colour way as this one. Just bought a genuine brand x re release. After all this time finally got much nearer the original...
- Lucas Pauken: I'm desperately looking for a graphic from a board I got here in like 1990. It was a kids deck, I was maybe 7? I wanna say it had a drawing on in that someone's kid did.. maybe it was a gator deck. St...
- boglung: I bought a yellow double kick aluminum board from Skateboarder. I wanted the camber slalom board but settled on the double kick. It did lots of tricks, but I didn't ride it very long. Sharp thin edges...
- Danny Bourke: Hey mate, the first board with the Tracker truck and black wheels ended up in Australia as part of my collection. It now has the original trucks and orange wheels replaced as it would have been when i...
- Stephen: Tony Mann had a pro model with Bonzer skates....
- Neil Robinson: Hi Looking for a set of orange SK3 wheels for my blue polyurethane Super Skuda....
- Terry: What’s the current day, 2024 value of a Yellow, Mad Rats sticker ?...
- Kilwag: Gah, this reads like A.I....
- Dave Reuben: An original Gator, Street warrior is definitely a good investment. A battered full deck recently sold at auction for close to £22,000. I would love to get my hands one of these bad boys!...
- Wesley C Scott: I have one fairly mint. Great board...
- Marc Prempain: Code of honor are absolutely great. I wonder if Mike Fox is the same Mike Fox who played in Los Olvidados ?...
- Roberto A Lopez: Yeah man howzit. I rode with you, Butch an George W a little at haters alley and aids pool and the little half-pipe, launch ramps, boxes ,railslides we had in N. L B by the railroad tracks right near...
- Keiran: I’ve got an original pair of Bonzer sand cast trucks....
- kenzie: i know this post is 15 years old, but chop socky chooks was a fucking lit tv show...
- Orezona: I'm going to need to track down that cover of jungle boogie, now I'm intrigued!...
- Kilwag: Nice! Did you paint yours is that the way it came? Plastic version or the metal version? My guess is you want relatively soft wheels, bearings and bushings not too important. I prefer Bones brand bush...
