Hey Cab... what do you think of Lords of Dogtown?

Peralta and Alva were the actual "stunt" riders for their characters in the pool and on the street...

 

Gracie's still a "Betty" but she was a SPONSORED SKATING ZORLAC "Betty" and quite the innovator when it came to the burgeoning sport of frisbee golf, got pictures to prove it, heee heee.


Don't even get me started on Stacey, Imma little teapot.

 

Afew years ago when the documentary came out, my wife and I were in Oahu for Thanksgiving and we got invited to the O'Neil house on the North Shore for dinner. There were broken board all over the back yard, and 16 year old kids from all over the world were staying at the house to surf and hang out- The best of the best. I saw a kid of maybe 12 named Jon Jon, who was ranked #1 at his age tearing it up in some serious surf.

As sunset approaches, I'm sitting there on the shore, watching the pounding waves and these amazing kids. There is a really tanned, grizzly looking guy with tones of tattoos sitting next to me- Ot was Jay Adams- Fresh from the Hawaii correction system!! We wrapped for a while, and he was a really nice guy. I've got a picture of us together somewhere....

jay

 

Betty-schmetty... I SKATED. Ditches, ramps, pools oh my. Zorlac was my pimp.


Crow... it was NOT frisbee golf... that's for pusses... I played ULTIMATE... I was hardcore man! (Pass the doobage man.... that's some good shit man... where's the fig newtons man?)

Quit giving away my secrets Crow!

 

that is an insane opportunity. Jack is cool as hell and Jay is a legend.

 

Yeah, I used to skate the Hangar in Charleston with him alot, and Cedar Crest, and the Ramp House in Carolina Beach, not to mention our own little slice of heaven... The Farm Ramp

 

LOL!! That's a hoot!!

Steve

 

one time at a show some half naked chick was walking around and everyone was taking pictures with her.....

2 guys i know walked up there and she saaid "do you want to take my picture? "

they said..hell no...shit we wanted you to take ours for us..and handed her the camera!



ahh..maybe it was funnier when it happened.

 

Man, this thread is bringing back such memories. In 77, I was right out of high school, & my friends & I would always go over every photo in Skateboarder magazine, then try to emulate what they were doing. Man, we were stuck in South Louisiana, with no hills or nothing cool. Cool street stuff was right under our noses, but we were too stupid to see that, so we build ramps. No videos or anything to see the real guys in action, just the stop action images in the magazines. So, we basically had no clue what the whole thing was all about, even though we thought we did. It wasn't until we finally went to a skatepark & saw this one guy, & then I knew there was so much more speed & flowing lines than what came through in the mags. I guess my favorite board at the time was a yellow Z-Flex with Tracker trucks & hard Sims pure juice wheels with German bearings.

Steve

 

Cab seems to be avoiding this post like the plague. Must not have anything nice to say (?).

I learned to skate at he Endless Wave in Oxnard, CA. Back then, Lonnie Toft was a god to me. Somewhere along the line, I decided it was more fun to ride bikes on dirt, but that led me back to halfpipes and skateboards after a while.

Yeah... Alva was everywhere you looked back in '77 or so. My cousins rode for G&S, so there were plenty of Warptail 2's around. Man, the younger guys on here have no idea what a revolution it was when the first nine-inch-wide "pig" boards hit the street, and it probably TRIPLED the usable traction on the deck. It was a big step up from plastic banana boards, fiberglass Makaha decks and loose bearings. First it was "German sealed bearings" and then "Swiss precision bearings"... wow. Nostalgia sure ain't what it used to be!

 

no gracie i was probably there. the years and locations get a bit mixed but i was at most of the stuff going on in the south unless i was at a bmx race of freestyle contest. i was always better at bikes but that didn't mean i didn't enjoy every second i ever spent skating. born in '72 so i think i was done with them then other than at a few parties. man the memories...ken....

 

RIGHT ON!! RODDING BOARDERS!!!

Shiny, Great idea!, make sure you get alex chalmers out there.

Shoprag, that ramp was in one of the first gullwing videos maybe Full Power Trip. Gator, Jason J, crap neck I mean ken park...

Gracie, Rocking the autograph attitude! Love it!

Skate Fink, Do you still ride with Derek Krausuaskas? I need his # or tell him to contact Ken Lehman from derelict hotel. Thanks

fatassbuick, I rode with Blaze at the hanger, stone edge, the crest, O.C. md, ramp house. Tops for style, his slob/ sock plants ruled. Stayed at his pit in SC. We weren't tight though, he was "too hard".

zman, I moved to Wville beach as the ramp house was closing. I worked at Eastern and rode the ramp every day until it fell apart. Never made it to the farm ramp?WHY?. ALL HAIL THE WAINWRIGHT BROTHERS!!!!
Ken derelict hotel

 

Man Kiick ass! I had know idea there were so many old skaters on this site! I want to see this movie myself! I The best flick was animal chin! I loved skateing so much I named my son Ollie! Who was it in Animal chin that was dressed like a lounge singer and sung that raddy daddy raddy daddy do thing! I saw a more recent vid with Johnny rotten in it he was the host! Ok before I get blasted! But I want to see that flick!

 

There is no way that it could ever be better than "Thrashin"

Man, that was the best movie ever.

So much better than that "Gleaming the Cube" movie.

 

ha ha that's to funny. I worked for Eastern/Endless when they were in Raleigh, Reggie is still short... I still skate with Brian Wainright at the P58 bowl...

 

SKATEBOARDWEDO!

Well, some of us anyways.

 

fuckin killer movie.

 

glad to see this on here going to see movie tonight fact i rode ALVAs from mid to late 80s still got a couple fred smiths in storage so amped to see this movie will post what i thought of it hope it will be good

 

What happenned to him?

He stayed here in Kville for a few months back in '90 - He ripped the shit out of an 11 foot (18" vert) ramp with pool coping on it.

Sorry to see the RIP after his name - what's the story???

 

Oh yeah...

What was that old Skate movie with Stacey Peralta and that "mellowCat" guy?

It had alot of claymation in it.

THAT was the BEST skate movie EVER!!!

But i have to say, seeing the first Bones Brigade Video as a youngster set the stage for the next decade of my life.

 

No way can it be as cool as the documentary. Not possible.

 

nevermind.

 

i saw it last night. it was good but the documentary was better. it went a little fast and jumped ahead of things. they added in some things that weren't in the documentary but i don't want to spoil them. i say that you should see it with an open mind.

 

Haven't skated in 20+ years, but, I did all the steel on the grinds, verts and pipes for this place.

http://www.lakeowen.com/programs/action/asfacilities.html

It's about 5 miles from my house.
They train Olympic athletes, too...
...and, you should see the chicks that hang around there....!


JOE

 

Some kinda drinking and driving accident. Don't think he was driving though. Ken

 

i've seen some bitchen pics of del mar from eric dressen, that was my buddies tattoo shop in the skinned alive video. my boys skate (13 and 8) and they were so stoked when he came over the first time and was doin trinks on their rail. another time we went to vans it was cool my kids talkin to the other kids braggin that the had an old school skater over for dinner, my dad knows him good, it was funny shit the other kids ahh ne aahh.

 

Hey i'm 15 and im ridin a schmitt yardstix board and skatin bowls down at the skatepark, still wear my Hi top vans and shit . I dig it

 

Fred Smith taught me how to snort a chain up my nose and cough it out my mouth... its still my one and only party trick that still pleases (and grosses out) the masses...

I love Fred Smith.

 

You ain't shit unless you have the Fred Smith "punk size".

hc