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Month: February 2008

Jimmy Scott and Mark Rogowski, Munster 1988

Dobie took this picture of Gator and rollerskater Jimmy Scott at the Munster competition in 1988. Once again, I find little to say. This is a very dry period!

February 24, 2008
Price List Style BMX and Skateboard Mail Order Advert 1988

Other than contemplating what things cost back then, there is little to get excited about here. But a lot of people DID get excited about such things. Some shops and mail order companies built up cult followings. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who used to buy their gear from Everything at Your…

February 20, 2008
Mark Gonzales and Prince, Drayton and Snow

The attempts to get the text out of this scan have produced utter nonsense. I may come back to it. Shame: not only does this contain the story about Mark Gonazales being escorted out of a Prince concert only to come close to the man himself outside, it also has the tale of a strange…

February 10, 2008
UK Skateboard News: September 1988 — Derry Thompson Quits ESA, Clan Skates Opens

First an OCR health warning: the text below has been extracted from the scan using Optical Character Recognition. So there are likely to be some horrid mistakes. And maybe some funny ones. This also means that the effort involved in keeping this project going has increased again. So the year has got off to a…

February 3, 2008

When We Was Rad: Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine