{"id":159,"date":"2006-04-25T07:28:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T07:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/04\/25\/skate-city-and-skateboard-gang-adverts-november-1989\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T16:40:31","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T16:40:31","slug":"skate-city-and-skateboard-gang-adverts-november-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/04\/25\/skate-city-and-skateboard-gang-adverts-november-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Skate City and Skateboard Gang Adverts November 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/81\/rad81_37.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/81\/thumb-rad81_37.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Skate City and Skateboard Gang Adverts\" title=\"Skate City and Skateboard Gang Adverts\"  \/><\/a>I&#8217;m intrigued by the &#8220;Skateboard Gang&#8221; (shades of Thrashing in that title) video. I know nothing about it. It wasn&#8217;t from one of the mainstream companies, and it wasn&#8217;t something happening underground in the UK. Our lines of information came from those two sources, most of the time. Anything outside of that seemed alien to us.<br \/>\nI suspect we would have largely ignored this on the assumption that it was some &#8220;non-skate&#8221; company trying to jump on the skateboarding bandwaggon. We were very supsicious of anyone who hadn&#8217;t been around the main skateboard scene for years.<br \/>\nI wonder if things are much better now? The channels for communication are more varied now but I suspect it&#8217;s still just as difficult for new voices to be heard and new companies to find a market.<br \/>\nSkate City Bromley were in there as ever &#8212; an example from the opposite side: a shop which had been around for years, steadily supplying their local scene (mini-ramp on the derelict site next to the shop etc).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m intrigued by the &#8220;Skateboard Gang&#8221; (shades of Thrashing in that title) video. I know nothing about it. It wasn&#8217;t from one of the mainstream companies, and it wasn&#8217;t something happening underground in the UK. Our lines of information came from those two sources, most of the time. Anything outside of that seemed alien to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adverts","category-issue-81-november-1989"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}