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Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine

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Month: January 2008

Vintage eighties skateboarding: Powell, Livingston, and Munster. Contents of a issue 67 of R.a.d Magazine, September 1988

I don’t have any disks containing text this old. They survived for another ten years, but were destroyed in the New Deal fire. So we’re mostly going to have to do with scans for this issue. I’m trying to use OCR to extract the text, but it’s very patchy. I can’t get the credits out…

January 20, 2008
The shape of things to come: Opening of Slam City shop in Neal’s Yard

At first I wondered if there was anything particular to say about this Slam City Skates advert, other than that it features Ken Park at the wonderful Latimer Road ramp, and that the un-credited photograph would almost certainly have been taken by Paul Sunman. Then I noticed that it listed the famous shop in Covent…

January 14, 2008
Steve Caballero, South Bank, London, 1988.

Time for a look at 1988… Flipping through the year, this cover caught my eye as redolent of the time. The Powell Tours help defined that era and provided a focal point in an age before stadium skateboarding even seemed a possibility. But I note now that one of the cover lines reads “hot street…

January 6, 2008

When We Was Rad: Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine