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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
I wont even go into the skate deck art collections that are going on with the popularity of the sport now.
But guys like Neil Bender being the first to use his own art on his deck, man those were the years.
I had the original Neil Bender, and the original Gonz decks.
I miss things like the Schmitt Stix concave that wa sso popular.
we may be old school, be ware still here to make sure the memory is alive.
there will never be another late 80s skate decade. our lopsided hair dos and deviloocks made skating what it is today.
Natas Kaupas is putting out some SWEET decks under the name DESIGNARIUM under SANTA CRUZ.
sweet stuff.
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YES! YES!!! Gonz was in the neighborhood around a month ago the boys tell me. Late 80s was the WORLD! We were like princes. We could do ANYTHING. The more dangerous the trick the more tempting!!! Rolling the full length of Broadway in Manhattan at 2 am. NOTHIN' like it! Just a non stop roll!!!! Snag a cab bumper and BREEZE!
Things got crazy when Gator got busted but Hawk and Gonz and the rest kept our chins up.
You have GOT to keep your old decks. I have a pic of a pal of mine with his Rob Roskopff deck. It looks like that American Gothic picture with him and his girlfriend. It's a riot.
You got any of the t-shirts from back then? Or old Vans?