When We Was Rad: Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine
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I’m not sure if the site is working or not at the moment. Comments seem to be playing up. But it would be useful if someone could add one (they work for me, but not others at the moment)… Thanks.
Issue 67 September 1988 timlb 17 Nov 2008 2 Comments
Rude remarks about where to skate in Birmingham
I love the caption on the picture here: “Birmingham Wheels’ Finest”. The endless fear of being rude about any skate spot, on the grounds that it might be all the local skaters had, meant that most of the time the Where? guide was painfully neutral. Not so the contributors. “Take a broom” says the comment about the old council skatepark in South Ockenden (which can still be read in the Knowhere version of this guide, even though the park is long gone.
Issue 67 September 1988 timlb 16 Nov 2008 No Comments
Breaking again.
I wrote too soon. This blog is still not at all well.
Issue 67 September 1988 timlb 14 Nov 2008 No Comments
About that break…
The couple of weeks turned into something a bit longer. When I came back I discovered that this site had developed a glitch which meant that I could not log in to approve comments, let alone add new posts.
At last I’m back in. I hope to start adding new pages soon.
Issue 67 September 1988 timlb 13 Nov 2008 No Comments
Guide to UK skateboard spots, as they were in 1988
This is the one part of R.a.D Magazine which lives on as more than just a memory. It moved on line in 1994 and can still be found at www.knowhere.co.uk although the content is very different now.
I see from the introduction that we introduced a new rating system with this issue of the magazine. There’s a wistful tone to the observation that few people would expect to travel more than 10 or 20 miles to skate, and that no ditch could ever rate 5 stars. In the old days (the old days then) some of us used to travel from one end of the country to another in order skate something like Monk’s Ditch. Or, more to the point, to skate with other people at Monk’s Ditch.
What would the skaters of 1988 have made of the situation 20 years later? What would the skaters of 1980 have made of it? I think only the skaters of 1978 would have dared imagine a world of mini-parks all over the place and mega parks dotting the land. We got what we longed for. How does it feel?
Issue 67 September 1988 timlb 01 Nov 2008 2 Comments
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