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Don Brider, Dirty Ditches and a 1988 email address

Skateboard letters September 1988In this selection of letters we have

  • Mad Snoz and his cohorts writing about Dirty Ditches, but where?
  • Livi Skates thanking everyone who came for Pure Fun
  • Partying on the Isle of Wight
  • Vallely on vert (lots of it) at Latimer
  • A Picture of Don B
  • and our email address from 1988 = Telecom Gold 72:MAG90459

I’d forgotten that we kept that old address going. I thought it had died out with BMX Action Bike.

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Issue 67 September 1988 timlb 17 Feb 2009 No Comments

Back in the Day: vintage skateboard shop adverts from 1988

Skateboard Shops in Southampton, Manchester, Lewisham and Weston-super-Mare from 1988Off Beat Sportz take the prize this time for their “We Like Cats and Dogs Price List” tag line. What was that all about, then?
Action Ramps deserve some other kind of prize for breaking down the humble jump-ramp into a whole series of components.
Meanwhile Youngs favoured the “long copy” approach, Split went for the big claim (but it was certainly true the time I went there) and Weston BMX and Leisure turned sideways to fit it all in.
Each of the shops had a distinctive style and a crew of locals to match in the days before chain stores sold skateboards!

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Issue 67 September 1988 timlb 11 Feb 2009 3 Comments

Simon on Chrome Ball Incident

God bless Google alerts for bringing a smile to my face today: good to see so many people remember Simon Evans on Chrome Ball Incindent.
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Issue 67 September 1988 timlb 05 Feb 2009 No Comments

Free skateboard classified adverts from 1988

Free Skateboard Classified Adverts from 1988At some point I knew I would run out of interesting things to say about “The Wall”. That moment has come.
It was intended as the Craigslist for UK skateboarding of its time and delighted me when it turned into Myspace. But I’m stretching things too far again. Time to shut up!

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Issue 67 September 1988 timlb 03 Feb 2009 No Comments