When We Was Rad:
Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine

Month: September 2007

  • Rodolfos, Method Air and Skate City Adverts

    This was still a long way before the era of skateboard shops in prime locations. At this point it was still a few dedicated pioneers who kept us all supplied. They supplied much more than just equipment: shops were the real focal point for many local scenes in a time when ramps and parks were…

  • Warren Brown Intro 1991

    Good solid skating. 1991 was a wonderful time, when street skating really was starting to come together. Although my vision of skateboarding was formed on ramps and skateparks in the dark ages, the street explosion of the early nineties was a wonderful time for me. Years skating: 2 years Where from: Hackney Skate with: Curtis…

  • Winstan Whitter Intro

    Winstan Whitter went on to make the best film on British skateboarding I have ever seen. Here he is in an Intro from 1991. The year highlights one of the most impressive aspects of his work: Rollin Through the Decades gets the spirit of the earlier decades exactly right even though they are before Winstan’s…

  • Introducing Jagger: Birmingham Skate Legend

    Why do I feel odd writing about this page in the knowledge that Jagger reads (and contributes to) this blog? It wouldn’t have seemed odd publishing the page itself in the first place and of course we assumed that he would read it. I think this is another example of the way the nature of…

  • Strange Small Adverts

    I glazed over when I saw this kind of thing back then. Now I wonder about it. Even here there’s stuff going on: two skateboard shops in Banbury? Spice of Life in Southend? What’s the story behind this kind of thing?