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Steve Caballero, Southsea Skatepark, 1988
The words on this page are about the rain that plagued the Latimer Road demo, but the pictures are of blue sky and sun over Southsea Skatepark as Steve Caballero makes excellent use of the tombstone on the ramp. Photo by Paul Sunman — who took time out from Slam City to act as the…
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Zorlac Mark and Barry Abrook Advert
Two of my favourite skaters grin out at us from this Zorlac advert. Mark and Barry Abrook were at the heart of British skateboarding right back to the Andover days. In fact, I think that should be “Thruxton Days”, but that was before my time. They go right back. This advert was to promote their…
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Powell skate tour, Southsea and Romford, 1988
Oh dear: I never could bring myself to cut down the words. So here we have a page almost solid with text. It’s all here: references to Lance Mountain’s South London connections (his grandmother and skating at the Mad Dog Bowl with Seth Parker), sly digs at request for “professional” bank tricks, and endless trick…
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High Speed Video for the Masses
I have a pet theory that the entire development of skateboarding was changed by the introduction of affordable video cameras around the time of the first H Street video. So I was really excited when I came across a short skateboarding video clip in high-speed high-definition, shot on Red cameras: skate – shot on red…
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Lance Mountain and Steve Caballero: Livingston, Birmingham Wheels and Wolverhampton
The thought of the security guards at the Edinburgh Virgin Megastore only letting skaters in 10 at a time makes me smile. They must have wondered what was going on. Back in 1988 skateboarding was only just emerging from the underground. This demo took place just after Livingston had been resurfaced and coping had been…
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Classic skateboarding: Steve Caballero, Stevenage Skatepark, July 1988
This picture by Dobie certainly brings a smile to my face. The skatepark at Bowes Lyon House saw many interesting scenes of one kind or another over the years, but for pure skateboarding the Powell Peralta tour of 1988 must have been one of the greatest. I really like this picture: it seems to me…
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More from Simon
Every now and again I feel I should point people at some of the current work of the artist Simon Evans….
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Powell Peralta tour Stevenage, Brixton, South Bank and more
My goodness. What a dull looking page. Too many words again. But I always wanted to get so much in. For example, here’s a reference to Stacy Peralta signing the South Bank when he was on tour in 1978. He was on Blue Peter on that tour as well. I dare say a high-profile skate…
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Steve Caballero South Bank Wall 1988
Too many words and not the right pictures. One of the curses of producing a magazine which could only have colour on some pages was trying to use the right pictures in the right place. So this page of the tour report is about the ramp session in Birmingham, but the relevant pictures are on…
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Vintage Rad stickers on e-bay
Dan Adams just sent me an email about someone selling a R.a.D window sticker on e-Bay for £5.50. Is that a little or a lot?