eBay Watch: June 2013
60s, 70s, very early 80s. First up this in the 70s section this month is this amazing package, which consist of a mint Banazi aluminum complete, along with the original shipping box! It’s been in storage for 35 years, and looks as bright and shiny as they day it left the factory in 1977! The […]
Posted by: House of Neil on August 4th, 2013
GVK #86: Summer Solstice
Summer solstice central oregon skate round up. Or “Where the is the 3G network?” Remember when the summer Solstice meant something. Like a skate trip with your crew. Well it does not mean that any more. Now it means Lame-os stay home and the parks are empty. SO SUCK IT LAME-OS HERE IS WHAT YOU […]
Posted by: Grover on June 27th, 2013
Ebay Watch: May 2013
Nere it is, eBayWatch May 2013 60s, 70s, very early 80s. First up this in the 70s section this month is this Powell Peralta ‘Beamer’ team board from 1979. It comes complete with Trackers and Powell Bones Mini Cubics. It’s in very good used condition: the orange is still loud and vibrant and the pizza-grip […]
Posted by: House of Neil on June 23rd, 2013
Ebay Watch: March / April 2013
60s, 70s, very early 80s. First up this in the 70s section this month is this Alva “Litebeam” from 1979. It is NOS, never gripped or mounted. Some folks raised some questions over the validity of this deck, but the seller claimed to have owned it since it was new because his family owned a […]
Posted by: House of Neil on May 27th, 2013
GVK #85 Great Unheard Miniramp Swindle
This contest took place durring the two weeks of summer we had early this spring. That was some good weather. It sure was exciting to be at the contest live. The video does not do it justice. This youth group has some real impressive mini ramp skills. I even see some of them on the […]
Posted by: Grover on May 22nd, 2013
Ebay Watch: February 2013
So welcome to the long overdue February 2013 edition of eBayWatch. Sorry it took so long to get out! I’m well over a month late I know, but a lot of stuff has been going down at HouseofNeil! Extra work projects, trips, and all kinds of stuff! And as it got later and later I […]
Posted by: House of Neil on April 21st, 2013
GVK #84 Seattle Spring Break
Trip # 2 to Seattle Spring Break. It was more like summer break. I had a bad knee so I was video guy. Got a great tan though. GVK wishes good luck to Anthony Hancock who is trying to qualify for the vans combi contest as a master, I think his outfits should qualify him. […]
Posted by: Grover on April 9th, 2013
GVK#83: Seattle Vert Ramp
Took a little trip to the new vert in Seattle. Sliters, Grovers,and Conahan. We arrived, and we were more intimidated than when we were talking about the size of the ramp on the drive up. We got comfortable after about an hour but by that time we were tired. That didn’t stop us from embarrassing […]
Posted by: Grover on March 6th, 2013
Ebay Watch: January 2013
So welcome to the January 2013 edition of eBayWatch. This was one of those months that on first glance looked like a really bad one. But as the month went on and as I dug down to explore some of the “mid-price” decks I found some real beauties actually. And some unusual ones too! The […]
Posted by: House of Neil on February 18th, 2013
Ebay Watch: December 2012
I just flew back from England (and boy are my arms tired!) where I spent Xmas with my family. I was amazed to see a skateboard store had popped up in Wallasey Village. Wallasey is across the river Mersey from Liverpool. It’s an old town (60,000 or so) that gets mentioned in book back to […]
Posted by: House of Neil on January 14th, 2013
Recent Comments
- Peter Elliott: Hi guys, I was looking to purchase a Cooper SKB100 or Cooper SK100. Do you know how to go about buying one of these? Thanks, Peter...
- Monica Maka: A green version of Venice beach popped-up on Marketplace today....which led me here. Thanks for putting up all these great photos of what is out there. I appreciate it. Too Cool...
- Big Steve: What a killer thread! I got on here after seeing a T Hawk CoQ10 commercial that prompted memories of what I thought was a skating exhibition at the V.P. Fair in the Lou back in mid-to-late 80's. So I ...
- 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....
