When We Was Rad:
Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine

Month: August 2007

  • The Wall: social networking and user-created content from 1991

    From an age before e-Bay, Myspace and Facebook… Here we have social networking and user-created content, 1991 style. The Wall was a far from perfect market-place, notorious for inflated ideas of what a worn-out deck might be worth. It was also one part of the magazine where the voice of the readers could be heard.…

  • Birmingham: concrete city, bye bye

    The picture at the bottom right has a poignant grimness to it. That really does sum up the idea of skaters making use of the spaces that everyone else would shun. It may look oppressive but we really had a great day there. So much stuff. I have a great fondness for that picture. I…

  • Steps and bins: furniture for skaters to make the streets home

    I’ve just realised that the top pictures of Whizzer are a sequence. Apologies. I should have stitched the two pages together. Once again Egan is much in evidence. It’s not like these were all people who normally skated together: different groups from different parts of Birmingham were all sessioning the same place on this rare…

  • Moor Street Car Park Birmingham

    “Three hearty young lads give the Moor Street Car Park their very best.” I always thought that NCP should sponsor a “King of the Car Parks” series. But I doubt if they would have seen things the same way. In the grim damp cities of winter, car parks provided one of the few indoor places…