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Freestyle Skate Ramps, Back Street Skates Adverts and others 1991
The odd one out here is the advert from the Advertising Standards Authority. These were used as fillers if the advertising space had not been sold to anyone. Every now and again we would find ourselves on the receiving end of their attention when someone got upset about an advert. The most bizarre example of…
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Welcome Harry Hardcore
This run of pages seems to be a real Gav fest. The much-hated Ricky Spangles, a.k.a Spangleski had finally been buried, probably as a result of reader pressure. And pressure closer from within the team as well, I suspect. So here we have “Harry Hardcore”, Gavin’s nod to all those who could tell (and the…
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You are now the World’s Greatest Street Skater
The story comes to an end. You get to tug Titus’ ponytail. You have won the 1991 Munster street competition. It’s all true… Actually, it’s not — it’s a dream. Tony Hawk won street as well as ramps that year. I’ve just read through this and noticed “(???check names???)” near the end. It made me…
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Today You Must Practice and Practice Again
“Who he?” they think… I feel really bad when faced with captions with no names. I can’t put a name to him, sorry (help?). The location looks like Fairfield Halls in Croydon. Interesting to note the coy: “f***ing”. We didn’t normally used asterisks. We didn’t normally use words which might have needed them (although the…