The shot of Mike Vallely at the South Bank skating in a R.a.D shirt certainly catches the eye… Those T shirts were completely over the top.
But the PC’s Skate shop advert is significant too. I think there was some fuss over the use of the ‘Pig City’ name in this context, but it’s a very dim memory. What’s nice now is to look back at these pictures of Mark Collins, Justin Ashby, Andy Binns and John Mitchell. Brighton was and is a very special place.
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Mike Vallely R.a.D T Shirt and Pig City Skate Shop Adverts
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Issue 67 September 1988 timlb 13 Sep 2008 4 Comments
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fribby responded on 26 Sep 2008 at 2:39 pm #
I get a real pang of nostalgie seeing the old hand drawn artwork on these old adverts, they look reallly crappy now, but back in the day it was just the norm.
Prior to the internet it was all we had, every advert that appeared offering a free catalogue I sent off for straight away (even faster if free stickers were a possibility). I used to spend hours poring over the gear I couldn’t afford to buy : )
timlb responded on 17 Nov 2008 at 12:14 pm #
On behalf of Lee Y (whose comment disappeared):
Eh – that’s me in the background on my bl*8dy rollerskates. Polluting the South Bank – I must get round to scanning more of my photographs. I know Edwin put some of mine into ‘Rollin Through the Decades’ – just need to fit it all in – great times!!!!
charlie newnham responded on 22 Jul 2009 at 1:11 am #
if you think you got what it takes to make pigcity up and running againn by all mean contact me on my email because the company is going for sale my dad pat newnham is selling it so get back to me on charlie_royston@hotmail.com
newnham responded on 23 May 2010 at 1:10 am #
PIG CITY SKATEBOARDING OLD SCHOOL we are currently building a web site which will feature pc’s skate shop-pig city team and the brighton vert ramp and all who sk8ed it the best vert ramp around at the time any pics you have can be posted on site so if u remeber those days and want to look back join us we are also doing some old skool t-shirts and stickers .we will also be geting a new team togethe