Hubbard Homestead Skatespot in Seattle
Steve Ping from DesertPipes.com shot some photos of the newly completed Hubbard Homestead Skate Spot located at 11203 5th Ave NE in the Northgate neighborhood of Seattle. It’s still behind fences and the official grand opening is allegedly December 5th. It looks like Newline is credited wight the design concepts. There’s a firm in charge […]
Show me your deck in Seattle
Local Seattle artists using the skateboard deck as a canvas. Opens August 14, 6-10 PM at True Love Art and Tattoo with DJ Fistfight and “refreshments.” Show runs through September 7th. Featured Artists: John Cristcitello, Kerstin Graudins, Scott Dalrymple, narboo, Claudio Duran, Starheadboy, Carolyn Hitt, Dave Enriquez, Benjamin Hubbard, Clifton Yates, Scarlet Luartes, Jesse Narens, […]
Advantage in
Spotted on a public tennis court in Seattle, not to far from the college.
SOTW 3-25-13: Seattle Vert
This weeks Shot of the Week is near and dear to old GVK’s heart. It’s Payton Moriarity wearing the vert mantle and forging ahead for the youth of skateboarding. It brought a tear to Steve’s eye, mostly because he realized he’ll never be that good. Full frame after the jump, bonus shots at Cold War […]
The best art causes pain or mental anguish
From the upcoming Bumbershoot music festival in Seattle, a scheduled art installation called ‘Skaters Gauntlet’: W. Scott Trimble’s sculptural installation is a fantastic obstacle course that includes a 360-degree skate pipe, skate bowl extension towers, a freestanding quarter pipe, ramps over obstacles, and more impossible structures that would taunt the most seasoned and reckless of […]
Help Marginal Way DIY park get 25k
…and all you lose is a little Facebook anonymity. Seriously, I almost wasn’t going to do it because you have to grant the Pepsi app access to your wall and a bunch of other info. You can bypass Facebook and register with the Pepsi site to vote as well. What’s all this voting? it’s another […]
Marginal Exposure
Marginal Way photo exhibition and fundraiser for the Marginal Way Skatepark! Check out photography by Josh Becker, Dan Barnett, Jimmy Clarke, James Greely, Ki Kopkau, Marshall Ried, Tara Sanborn, Eric Green, Joe Hammeke, Brad Shows, and Micha Shapiro. MINI RAMP JAM, silent auction, RAFFLE, and BBQ! June 24th 6-11PM at The Piranha Shop 1022 1st […]
Ahh, your mother wears combat boots…
…which will come in handy this weekend if she wants to work on these DIY projects. Marginal Way in Seattle has a benefit this Saturday Sunday and Brooklyn Street Skate Spot in Portland is having one this Sunday, which is Mother’s day… so yeah, bring your mom I guess. Saturday. Flyers and video scrapbook of […]
Marginal Way auction/benefit…
Marginal Way benefit auction 6-10 at Electric Coffin, 1020 S 1st Ave, Seattle Wa. Like the flier says, Electric Coffin is hosting a benefit art show for Marginal Way. Mob Grip tape has provided sheets of grip tape for artists to paint on and will be sold for no more than $50 buck the night […]
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...
