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Warren Brown, City of London, March 1991
Centre spread picture (these mattered in the days when they could be pulled from magazines and stuck on the wall) of Warren Brown by Jay Podesta. This was a golden age before the skateboard potential of the City of London had really been recognised. As its popularity grew, so did the busts. Perhaps somebody can…
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Practice alone, Practice by night
Weird caption: “Practice alone, Practice by night, with friends by day. Practice will make perfect”. More to the point: who are the skaters in the pictures? The first is at Harrow Skatepark, no idea where the second one is. No photographer is credited, which usually means that I took them, but the second one doesn’t…
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Rollersnakes, Off-beat and Skateshop Nini skateboard mail order adverts
The most interesting of these, for me, is the Skate-shop Nini advert. Rollersnakes and Off-beat are still very familiar names, but what’s the story behind a shop from Belgium advertising in a British magazine? The geography of skateboarding was different then and there was even less of a notion of ‘Europe’ than there is now.…
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More on how to become the world’s greatest street skater
In which Gavin introduces “The Great Rock’n’Roll Swindle†— another primary source… Day 15: Saturday, 6th July Stop skating. Find a pool with water in it and swim a few lengths. Immerse yourself in the deep end, look upwards to the light or sky above and pop up for a deep gulp of oxygen. How…