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Category: Issue 110 July 1992

  • Union Wheels Chet Thomas Advert Rad Magazine July 1992

    I confess: I have nothing to say about this. At the moment I’m struggling to even upload the images — but I found this scan hidden away on an old computer, so I decided it deserves a better home. Excuse me while I blow the dust and cobwebs off the file.

  • Contents of Issue 110 of Rad Magazine, July 1992

    Now I understand why there’s been such a long delay in publishing this post. I had reached the contents page and could not face typing out everything that’s on here! So for now, I’ll just list the items themselves: News R.a.Diation 7 Steve Douglas 12 Products 54 Couch Session 58 Diss-Communication 60 Comps Doing it…

  • Clobber Skate Clothing Advert July 1992

    “Made tough and comfy for nocturnal activities. A size guage or color or feel to compliment any occasion: Being a smart ass to a Dennys waitress at 4.am. Impressing your friends by sticking your left ear to a mega watt thumping Cerwin Vega. A neuron firing sugar rush from ten too many raspberry blowpops. Getting…

  • Ron Knige ‘The Franz’ New Deal Skates Advert

    Steve Martin did “The Jerk” Eddie Murphy was “Delirious” Richard Pryor didn’t know “Which Way Was Up” but these orginal pranksters can’t come close to the new King of Comedy… The Franz Ronald “Franz” Knigge, touring in your home town soon… This is a great example of a New Deal advert from a golden age.…

  • Rollerblade Advert: People Dream they Can Fly

    Yeah, right. Not a good start to this classic issue, but there we go. And I’ve only just now got the point of the headline. I don’t think I would ever have looked at it so closely when it first appeared! I’m sitting here thinking if there’s anything to be said about this. And I’ve…

  • Curtis McCann, Shell Centre, South Bank, July 1992: cover of issue 110 of Rad Magazine

    Curtis McCann, legendary skater. The Shell Centre, legendary spot. Coming up in this issue we’ll also see another legend, the Plan B video and also a few more infamous elements such as the experiments with early video-frame-grab technology and the free cover-mount R.a.D keyring. Including those three things in one sentence is some kind of…