Skate Straight #9

Zine: Skate Straight

From the collection of ????

I found this in the attachments folder of a crashed email program circa 2008, I have a couple others that are missing pages. Please contact Skate and Annoy if you were the one who donated these.

A solid issue with good photographs and not a lot of talk. Also the first one to make it clear that it is needed a straight edge skateboard zine, with “Drug free and proud” on the cover for the first time, Issue 10 has the same tagline, but sadly all we have is the cover. Guessing on the date for this one, if Skate Straight  #8 with the Surf Ohio contest was in 1988 and this one covered a spring break trip to Kona that would have probably put it into the next year.

Date: 1989
From: Dayton Ohio
Format: Letter sized paper, folded in half, color cover, color center
Pages: 16
Type: photocopied

Editor: Mike Gamstetter
Contributing Photographers: Mike Gamstetter, Mike Hill

Featuring: Spring Break at Kona skatepark, DAYTON OHIO- ONE OF TH WORLD’S GREATEST SKATE TOWNS (why not?)

Skaters: Dan Wilkes, Barry Floyd, Josh Evans, Steve – John Thomas (?), Monty Nolder, Kevin Dickmann, Mark Heintzman, Mark Ericson, Mike Hill, Ralph from Michigan,

Spots: Kona Skatepark, Surf Ohio miniramp, Beaver Creek ramp, a ditch in Dayton that they won’t tell you the name of because you should already know it, unless it’s the also-featured  Eastwood Ditch.

Honorable Mentions: Jyme George, Don G.