When We Was Rad:
Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine

Tag: tours

  • Vallely on Vert, Mountain in ‘Birmingham’ and Guerrero Where?

    The curse of captioning strikes again. That doesn’t look like Birmingham to me. But maybe my eyesight is failing! This page marks the end of the monster coverage of the Powell Tour of 1988. Looking back on it, I think we went over the top: there’s 11 pages of it. That was huge amount in…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…