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Smallroom Skateboards, Clan and SS20 Adverts
Small Room Skateboards… I have only the vaguest memories of them. Perhaps someone can help out with more information? Tony Buyalos and Donny Wilson are listed as team riders. Other adverts are from classic ‘skater owned shops’ — Clan/Poizone and SS20 with SS20 claiming the fastest mail order in the UK! The SS20 ad also…
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Overview of the Hamburg indoor skatepark bowl in 1991
This type of thing may have become commonplace by 2006, but in 1991 it was astonishing to see a skateboard facility like this in Europe. Captions: Main pic: The mouthwatering overvies of I-punkt’s new bowl. Left top: Soren Aaby gets aquainted with hip movements. Middle left and right: Danish local and Ryan Monyhan unable to…
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Hamburg Skatepark, 1991 style
Jeremy Fox wrote the words and Davy Van Laere supplied the photographs for this story about a pioneering indoor wooden skatepark in Hamburg. Holy Hamburg, Batman! It’s the Patron Saint of Skateboarding Europe now has one of the raddest indoor wooden skateparks in the world. The new facility is in Hamburg, Germany. Jeremy Fox took…
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Split Sports Advert – Manchester skateboard shops, 1991 style
Move along now: nothing to see here. I was about to go off on a rant about how cheap those delivery charges are, but in fact the 2006 equivalents are probably less when you allow for inflation. I don’t think anyone was charging extra for delivery to the Highlands, Northern Ireland or other islands back…