When We Was Rad:
Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine

Month: May 2008

  • How Livingston Happened — footnote on the early history of the skatepark

    Bother! I wish I had the text for this page on a disk. Oh well, here goes. The part of this which I want to get on line is the side-bar about Iain Urquhart. He was one of my skateboarding heroes, as you can tell: How Livingston Happened So you think you’ve got problems getting…

  • Livingston, Banks, Hips, Bowl and Doubles

    Blue sky picture feast from the finest bit of British concrete at the time. I don’t know which makes me smile more at this distance: Davie Philip’s style or the pure-fun aspects of the other two pictures. It also suddenly strikes me that it’s been a very long time since I’ve been to Livingston and…

  • Jamie Blair, Livingston Skatepark, 1988

    Very rare to see a whole page devoted to pictures of one skater. But in the case of Jamie Blair at Livingston, it makes perfect sense. Along with Davie Philip, Jamie Blair was a huge influence at this time, both through his skating and through the pioneering “Skater Owned Shop”, Clan Skates in Glasgow. They…