When We Was Rad:
Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine

Month: June 2006

  • Hungarian Skateboarders in Chislehurst, Fish in Banbury

    Angry BMX riders mix it with self-publicists from Banbury and a wide scattering of foreign coverage in this strange letters page. Even the downhill racers get a look in. Gavin kept his comments to a minimum this month. Also of note: a letter from David Foldvari, who has cropped up more recently in these parts,…

  • M Zone Spot Skate Shoe Mania Ten Years Too Soon

    Ouch! This must be the weakest M Zone advert of all time. And yet… When I look at it now I marvel that M Zone chose to run a “shoe” advert at a time when most people would have concentrated on selling a wider range. It turns out that had spotted the way things were…

  • Tim Simenon and Stacy Peralta team up for Attack

    My recollection is that this was one of a small series of videos produced by Lol Creme under the name “Videola”. This was a skateboard one, but others were more music-based. Lol’s son, Lalo (?) was the skate connection, I think. There was some very snotty comments floating around at the time about clippings from…