Unpopular opinions
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Amazing how many of us are ex skaters.
I too saw the Bones Brigade tour in the UK.. southsea and Bracknell.
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^^
Cool pic [emoji41]
Always loved this classic Gonz graphic
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Contrary to public believe, Mobile Alabama is actually quite behind on social and community initiates (stunned, I know). But three years ago, the city finally agreed to allow a public skatepark to be built.
In an effort to raise money for water fountains, I did some graphic (poor quality of course) work and made some gear for sale to show the young kids who paved the way.
The line was called OGs - which stood for “Old Guys Skating”
This was my logo:
And I made hats, shirts and some decks with “Mobile” written in Japanese - technically this translated to “Mobile” like a “Mobile Phone” instead of Mobile this city, but I didn’t like how the correct version looked, so artistic license and all that lol
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Interesting. There are a few mini public skate parks here, one of which is located next to an elementary school. It’s pretty basic but has a couple of mini ramps and slide rails.
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Nab any Thrilla Gorilla stuff?
Nah; from what I pieced together on the internet, there was some sort of falling out between T&C and the rights owner for all that artwork and the characters, so it's like it never existed when you go in the store. Kinda disappointing.
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Nab any Thrilla Gorilla stuff?
Nah; from what I pieced together on the internet, there was some sort of falling out between T&C and the rights owner for all that artwork and the characters, so it's like it never existed when you go in the store. Kinda disappointing.
Thrilla Gorilla stuff can be found here: https://thrillakrewgear.com
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Quite a few Skate parks in the Phoenix area…have been for a while as well...at least since the 80's. Used to be a Thrasherland out here but it closed....the Vans inside one of the malls in the West Valley was huge and had a skate park inside of it as well for a period of time but they closed the park section down.
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Reading through the last posts made me smile.
Most unpopular opinion: "It made me feel old!"
Reference pic from today.
Sims Jeff Phillips 1985
Jimmy 'z 1984
Town & Country bought 1986 Biarritz ((France)
Conklin Powell 1991
BodyGlove T from 1995
IH Duck 2018
No SupremeLots of nostalgia happening in that pic.
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Interesting. There are a few mini public skate parks here, one of which is located next to an elementary school. It’s pretty basic but has a couple of mini ramps and slide rails.
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The Twin Cities has enviable amentities that are years away from most southern towns that I'm familiar with. Paved, lit commuter bicycle trails were one of my favorites. Being able to ride in to work on the LRT and not dealing with sharing the road with motorized vehicles until I got downtown was amazing. Great parks too. I wish more cities were more like Minneapolis, even if it's a bit behind of my ideal on the light rail.
Buena Vista CO is a tiny town out here that is basically a mining town with a river tourism industry on the Arkansas River. They have a pretty nice little skate park, which impresses me for a town that size that is fairly conservative.
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Although I am a balding father in my (gasp) 30s, I still consider my formative years from 13-19 to be who I am today.
I still always have 3-4 skateboards laying around, and a guitar or two ready to lay down some Anti-Flag power chords.
I still have multiple pairs of “Bapestas” stashed away at my parents, and I wore the heck out of them, to the street wear wannabes dismay. I wore evisu jeans and hi-top ALife sneakers with Hedi Slimane Tees while blasting the Casualties in my Lancer. God I was cool (not haha)
I was probably also the only kid wearing Prada stacked jeans to warped tour in 2005 lol [emoji23]
I still live my life one quarter mile at a time (mainly because I can’t schedule anything further than 3 days in advance), and am thankful for the many subcultures I have always been able to insert myself Into.
I think we would all be cooler if we stayed 16. F*ck what anyone else thinks [emoji41]
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@Appfaff and @neph93 oh dudes I'm with you. The late 80s and early 90s were a great time. I knew the guys from Sick of it all, Murphy's Law, and H2O and sold merch for them when they came to the UK, and on one tri-state tour in the US. I've never skated, but Toby Morse from H2O tried to teach me once I Amsterdam . He gave me up as a lost cause.
As far as skate brands I knew some Japanese guys in London at the time. They were big on the brands X Large (as was I. Visited the store in NYC once and met the Beasties working a shift) Bathing Ape was big, and Supreme was coming through. Carhartt was big in the hardcore scene because back then (before 'work in progress') it was bomb proof and cheap. I remember loading an empty suitcase Iup with clothes I bought at Dave's in NYC (anyone remember that place?) And dragging it through UK customs.t's that era that got me into work wear and vintage denim when you could still find 50s selvedge xx levis for not too much money.
It's crazy that I only discovered the modern crop of US and Japanese companies a few years ago. So many wasted years.
Pay the bills, take care of business, care for family and friends (and society). Do that as an adult, then be that 18 kid for the rest, that's what I reckon. FTW….arghhhhh. ok calm down now due and do the dishes...
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I always went with my brother and his mates… As a spectator... First skateboarding, then rollerblading... Both in parks and on the streets... I was always disadvantaged when the rozzers arrived and all the lads sped away on their rollerblades...
Anyway: it was a great group to be part of... Positive, helping, caring,... I miss that, no longer being active in the hc/ punk scene... My brother's into scratching (DJ/ vinyl) and has private house sessions with fellow enthousiasts (world and Belgian DJ champions as well though) twice a year, and every time I meet those lads and lasses, it takes me back... Positive, supportive, vehemently anti-racist, accepting...
I will never see the point in being negative, or jaded, or hateful... Someone said it before, but it's true: I owe a lot to the punk/ crust/ hc/ screamo scene... You can never hate the world when you've seen a gay, Dutch mate screaming along to La Quiete playing CMAR-fest in Germany '06 whilst crowd surfing... Memories
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I always went with my brother and his mates… As a spectator... First skateboarding, then rollerblading... Both in parks and on the streets... I was always disadvantaged when the rozzers arrived and all the lads sped away on their rollerblades...
Anyway: it was a great group to be part of... Positive, helping, caring,... I miss that, no longer being active in the hc/ punk scene... My brother's into scratching (DJ/ vinyl) and has private house sessions with fellow enthousiasts (world and Belgian DJ champions as well though) twice a year, and every time I meet those lads and lasses, it takes me back... Positive, supportive, vehemently anti-racist, accepting...
I will never see the point in being negative, or jaded, or hateful... Someone said it before, but it's true: I owe a lot to the punk/ crust/ hc/ screamo scene... You can never hate the world when you've seen a gay, Dutch mate screaming along to La Quiete playing CMAR-fest in Germany '06 whilst crowd surfing... Memories
@Seul you are so right. sounds like we had very similar formative years. I'll always refer to myself as a hardcore punk 'kid'. Some of the guys that we did bands with went on to big things (Frank Turner for example), others went on to work in music production, charity work, me, social work. Those values stay with you.
speaking of DJ ing, and old school mate of mine Ross (Dj Destruction) battled cutmaster swift and was a finalist in the 90 and 91 UK DMC championships. He was 16! such great times.
I had 13 good years being vegan and sxe. Got to meet amazing people from around the world. Some not so amazing (never meet a hero! they generally don't match your expectations). To this day, despite my sarcastic sense of humour, I am positive and optimistic.
you've made me want to post some vids in the music thread now!
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@Stuart.T @Seul I'm hearing violins… you two are so cute together
We should all stay positive though. That's just good advice. I'm going to tie this post together by way of two pieces of Craig Finn genius:
"Went down with some crust punk junk and woke up with a straight edge band.
That's not how we planned it""No gods no kings let freedom ring
No faith no sin no hymns to sing" -
A lot of folk here come from the same scene/ background… I've been noticing that for years... It's always made me smile... It's also weird how a lot of us got into new niche stuff like coffee, beer, denim/ workwear,...
There's an unpop-op in there somewhere but I'll be damned to be the one to get this thread back onto track...
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There's an unpop-op in there somewhere but I'll be damned to be the one to get this thread back onto track…
As a mod I'm not even remotely interested in saving it
Thread's fucked in a beautiful way and what's even better is that @Megatron1505 's head must be exploding at all the nostalgic love going on here. Love you Gav 
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ok, here we go…Ian McKaye should have kept his self righteous mouth shut in 1980 and got himself a heroin addiction instead (I don't actually subscribe to the views expressed by the author)
