When We Was Rad:
Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine

Month: January 2009

  • Street Contest from Munster 1988

    Interesting bits in here… The overview of what we described as ‘the streetstyle device‘: state of the art at the time was: ‘Bank, quarter-pipe and mini-handrail all in one unit.” Now you see things like that all over the place. They’ve become a standard item in public and commercial parks. In 1988 this seemed like…

  • R.a.D Sticker Rides Again

    Somebody sent me a link to a picture showing Tony Hawk at a 2008 Retro-contest, complete with a R.a.D sticker on the ramp and Mike Manzoori filming in the background. But I can’t find it now. Most strange.

  • Eric Dressen, Tommy Guerrero, Jeff Hedges: Munster 1988

    Oh dear. Back in the days before desktop publishing you did not know what things would look like until you got the magazines back from the printers. Unless you could afford proofs, which we could not. So the yellow tint behind some of this worked OK, but the magenta one makes it impossible to read…