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Santa Cruz advert featuring Natas Santa Monica Airlines deck
I’m certainly no expert on vintage skateboard companies, so I’m not quite sure where this fits in, but what we have here is a Santa Cruz advert promoting a Natas Kaupas deck which includes the “Santa Monica Airlines” logo. Perhaps someone can help out with the details of the relationship on that brand to various…
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Muswell Hills Finest Skateshop
Hills Skates in Muswell Hill were a long time advertiser in R.a.D. but I can’t remember a great deal about them. The Bauer Turbo Roller skate which features so prominently here encourages my notion that their background was in eight wheels, not four. I’ve just noticed one point of interest here: Mapled Blank Deck with…
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Stussy No 4 T shirt and Schmitt plus Dog Town decks
Skate Paraphernalia from September 1988: Motobilt and Rannalli trucks, Schmitt Stix Chainsaw and Chris Miller decks, Dog Town Micke Alba deck, a Swatch pouch and a Stussy No 4 T shirt. But my favourite thing here is the custom skate badge from Ian Walker in Doncaster. Meanwhile for everyone interested in vintage skateboard decks, look…
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Anarchic Adjustment Not an Advert and Clan + Mach Adverts from 1988
“To Remain Underground and Exclusive is to Resist the Mainstream Therefore This is Not an Anarchic Adjustment Advert” It may seem unfair to place so much emphasis on the Anarchic Adjustment advert here when there are also ads from Glasgow stalwarts, Clan and Mach in Edinburgh, but I saw Nick last month for the first…