Cariuma is discontinuing this Bart Simpson shoe that I never new existed. I thought this was just a regular shoe with Bart Simpson riding a skateboard, but apparently it’s an actual skate shoe from a brand that I’d never heard of, and they’ve been at it for a while. You guys know where to send the review shoes. Size 13.5 please…

Are these bootleg Vision Street Wear shoes selling for less than $14 a pair on Temu? Does it even matter? Established (err… uhm… Make that “Fstablished…”) 1985. Insert tariff joke.

Outrage! I just watched the movie Air, and and enjoyed it quite a bit except for a glaring historical accuracy. No, I’m not talking about combining real-life people into one character for the sake of the plot, nor imagined dialog. Instead, I’m talking about the real important stuff, the skateboarding! The scene happens early (about 14 mins) in the movie, and 40 year old sneaker designer Peter Moore is seen skateboarding in the parking lot of Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. He’s on a somewhat era appropriate skateboard doing kickflips in 1984!

Who knows how many times the Airwalk brand name has changed owners since it first appeared on the scene in the late 80s. You may be used to seeing Vision name slapped on crappy scooters and the like, but it’s always amusing when a new blast from the past shows up. Witness the Airwalk brand of inline skates, likely on sale in a Target or Marshalls near you. – Thanks to Heath Berg for the photo.

Sketchers have announced their first pro model skateboard shoe…

Simple Footwear presents a brief history of skate shoes. Yes, the timeline goes past 1997. It’s a pretty lightweight history, certainly no Made for Skate, but is interesting in that a Simple shoe does not appear on that timeline, and they paid a guy to make vector illustrations of 44 shoes from other companies.

I was never a fan of these, but you sure did see a lot of them. The Madrid Flypaper version of Vans hi-tops have been re-released. As recently as 2014, an original pair of Madrid Flypaper Vans in a different color way sold for $2200!

As part of QuikSilver’s bankruptcy restructuring, DC shoes is dropping Rob Dyrdek as well as it’s entire BMX team. For the longest time Dyrdek’s name has almost been synonymous with DC. Is it like Nike declining to deal with Michael Jordan? Is it interesting? What does that mean for skateboarding? Absolutely nothing. [Source: Ride via Shop Eat Surf]

Before you get your panties in a bunch, this is just a concept for a removable ollie guard for your shoes, kind of like those old Totes™ brand rubbers my dad made me put on my dress shoes as a kid when it was raining. Unlike a lot of the other concepts in Benjamin Beck’s, it looks like he might have actually made at least one of them. I say “might” because he might be as skilled with Photoshop as he is with whatever 3D modeling package he uses. – Thanks to Boy Ipoh for the tip.

At first glance you might assume this was a poorly illustrated millennium era skateboarding frog wearing sandals no less. It looks like there are hub caps, which could either be a half-assed reference material used for the illustration, or actual wheel covers which existed on some clay wheel era Nash boards and were also sold as separate accessories in the 70’s. (Ad link coming later). Then I looked at the (long expired) auction info for this poster and it was in the 1950-1979 subcategory of shoes, so there you have it. My guess is early 70’s. Gali was/is a chain of stores in Israel that also manufactures it’s own shoes. According to Hadassah Magazine, besides making skate sandals for frogs, they are also the sole (har, har) supplier of boots to the Israeli military.