Santa Barbara Skateboards
Best sales pitch ever: “Not a dead log!”
SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE !
HIGHEST QUALITY HANDCRAFTED
Santa Barbara Skateboards
Not pultruded, molded, stamped, or a dead log!
60cm(23-5/8″) $19.95
65cm (25-5/8″) $20.95
70cm (27-1/2″) $21.95
75cm (29-l/2″) $23.35
Drilled free at your request!
Wheelwells per board $2.00 –
(recommended with wide trucks) ”
Send 25¢ for brochure and sticker.
P.O. Box 30796. Santa Bathara. California 93105
Company/Brand: Santa Barbara Skateboards
Product Type: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1977
Magazine: Wild World of Skateboarding
Issue: Wild World of Skateboarding July 1977
Country: USA
loved these boards and road them into the ground at Tea Bowl and Queen Anne’s.
I still have my 1977 Santa Barbara 65cm board fitted with GullWing HPG IV’s and Speed King wheels
GREAT to see this ad!! I was the one who actually did the lettering for that logo while I was a student at UCSB! I was friends with the guys who started Santa Barbara Skateboards and calligraphy was a passion so I wanted to help them out. They then started SB Sports and I helped design the “SBS” logo for that co. too. As I recall, they were the 1st to make a “long board”
My name is Peter Thermos, I’m John’s brother and I can’t wait to talk to him about “not a dead log!”. That’s cool to know you did the calligraphy back in the days of free-hand creation. I always thought SBS just meant Santa Barbara Skateboards. I’m not sure if they were first with the long board – I think they were very early to the wide board which I rode quite a bit before it went extinct. The first time the wide board was seen at a trade show, SBS and one other company were making them.
By the way: the guy who came up with “… not a dead log” was a guy by the name of John Thermos
Just hung out with Bill last night and brought him a couple old SBS to teach me about… including “the stick” saw his board presses, which he didn’t use on the first ones, a few stray old completes in his garage… told me of the dead log reference when I mentioned running into Logan family sister…oak LOGS indeed, no flex. it was good to meet and hear first hand stories, including the bankrupt filing based on skateboard magazines lawyer suing the small company. such as it was…bummer end to a winning team!
I’m Rick Henderson, photographer and shot for John and company. What was the lawsuit about? Can I post any pics? Would anyone want to see? Thanks! Rick
Would love to see SBS pics. Any team pictures?