Runnning a double-page spread advert must have been a huge investment for Jeremy Fox at this point. Ultimately it all came good for him with Flip, but that was a long time in the future. The skaters featured are Pete Dossett on the left and Wurzel on the right. The Wurzel picture was taken at Bloblands in Norwood Park.
This advert marked the introduction of DoDo wheels. Up to this point I think Death Box had just done decks and accessories.
6 responses to “Death Box Skateboards advert from December 1989”
long before they became flip,and when they ran this double page spread i always thought deathbox was on the up at the time. They had just released the new batch of decks and wheels for the 1st time..until then the decks were somewaht diffrent as in the wierd tail concave that killed your heel!..and if you wanted to try anything to tail on thse boards then forget it!
Its strange to see them now in the u.s. from being a small comapnay that came out of brittain and then going to the states and being something of a conglomerate company, wheels, tees, decks, cups, sauccers lol!
keep the mag thing going its good to see old adverts like this and old issues that you keep draggin out
the early boards didn’t have the tri tail. I had an original fibre epoxy (ltd edition) wurzel and it was the best deck i ever had. replaced it with an updated tri tail version & didn’t get on with it at all, made me ollie to the side!
i’d love to get hold of another original wurzel though………………………..
Wow, this brings back some memories…. I used to have the Dodoo wheels attached to my DeathBox Rocker skateboard…. If i remember correctly the skateboard was from Paul Rocker Robson who used to skate at the park I bought my board from…. Those were the days…
Ive still got it too……
I was pleased to find this WEB page about one of Englands top skateboard company’s of the late 1980’s going in to the 1990’s.
I my self am a skater from that time,and i remember when there first video with Alix Mole,was released.
And how much that gave a big boost to British skateboarding.
After all ,here in the UK the only skateboarding video’s you could get would be American,like the Bones Brigade video’s and H-street ect.
I memeber how skating the UK was so narlly and every hundred feet down the road you would hit another fart stone and face plant into the foot path or road.
And in America every thing looked like it was smooth concreat.
But we had to make do with the best that we had.
So if your a skater today,then think your self lucky,as you have a skate park
in most towns and in every city.
Keep it RAD as we used to say.
Dan Crossman.
see above we had it fucking hard in them days – shitty pavements everywhere – old 70s skate parks (anyone go to slades farm in wallisdown?) this site is great my fist deck ( after the nightmare that was a variflex) was a vision jinx – horrible tail!
My first board was a jeff grosso, Santa cruz.
We were lucky to have a shopping centre with the main path under a roof, dry and smooth always. I just recently had a message from someone telling me it’s still a spot for rainy and winter days, that’s pushing 15 years on.
Had a go on the concave tail boards, it had to be a stoners idea that wasn’t their best.