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 2 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!!!!