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28/01/2022

I just added 27 stickers from the collection of Blockhead founder Dave Bergthold to the gallery of Vintage Skateboard Stickers, bring the running total to 541 stickers. The additions are almost ent…

26/09/2021

Drop em in

07/09/2021

Barney, come back and brush your teeth!

I found this 19060’s era commercial for Gleem toothpaste in the Prelinger Archives. I was actually looking for a Bell Telephone commercial featuring Patti McGee but found this one that I& #821…

11/08/2021

hey, did you hear? Skateboarding is/was in the Olympics! This made some people really happy, and an equal amount really cranky, if not downright mad. Here at Skate and Annoy it made us feel ambival…

02/08/2021

We now have 400 stickers int vintage skate sticker gallery!

The count on the Vintage Skate Sticker Gallery has reached 400! The last hundred added span from the 70’s to the 90’s/ Some of the highlights include healthy additions to the Zorlac cat…

29/07/2021

"I feel like if I wore one it would signify some sort of personal commitment to Tony, like those teenagers who give and wear rings as a promise to abstain from s*x."

Seriously, it brings me joy that int the year 2021 I can still make the occasional Gratuitous Tony Hawk post. These rubber rings from Groove Life feature two “new” designs, which means …

21/06/2021

Celebrate GSD by putting on your skeleton pants and making a zine! No skeleton pants and no photocopier? Then read this 2019 interview and buy the Best of Skate Fate, now available in softcover.

Celebrate GSD by putting on your skeleton pants and making a zine! No skeleton pants and no photocopier? Then read this 2019 interview and buy the Best of Skate Fate, now available in softcover.Pho…

09/06/2021

It’s Pride month. Enjoy Yann Horowitz answering the question “Do I really want to be the ‘gay skateboarder’?” in this video from Vans. Watch it for the story, or watch it for the skateboarding. One day, it will just be the skateboarding.

– Thanks to Pete Lewis for the tip.

It’s Pride month. Enjoy Yann Horowitz answering the question “Do I really want to be the ‘gay skateboarder’?” in this video from Vans. Watch it for the story, or watch it for the skateboardin…

07/06/2021

The Vintage Skateboard Magazine Advert Gallery has reached 500 ads! Some of the highlights of recent additions include groovy 70’s s**g carpeting thanks to Makaha skate shoes, Famous Sci-fi f…

06/06/2021

Shout out to Eastside Roll-In Skateboards and Skate Supply, a skate shop that just opened in Troutdale, Oregon, and the same place I picked up these Wipers tribute wheels from Portland-based Jivaro Wheels. If you’re hankering for more Wipers, check out Jackpot Records (label and store) that re-released Is this Real? on vinyl for the first time since it’s original 1980 issue, as well as their live album (Wipers Tour) from 1984.

Shout out to Eastside Roll-In, a skate shop that just opened in Troutdale, Oregon, and the same place I picked up these Wipers tribute wheels from Portland-based Jivaro. If you’re hankering f…

04/05/2021

447 filterable vintage skateboard magazine adverts and counting...

We’ve added 73 ads to complete the April 1976 issue of Skateboarder Magazine, bringing the total in the archive to 447! There are other galleries out there, some of them are really good, but …

29/04/2021

Lovingly constructed and shaped by hand with a price that reflects it.

Shred Skateboards makes skateboards from castor materials leftover from the surfboard manufacturing process, which is about 6 lbs per surfboard according to Shred. They are cruisers and oversized c…

27/04/2021

Sweathogs! What are they and what can your doctor give you to eliminate them?

I randomly found an old message with link to a bendy Gabriel toys figure of Horshack riding a skateboard. I’ve got the Donald Duck version from the same company somewhere buried in a box, and…

31/03/2021

Tip of the hat to Public Enemy

Normally I’m against using your local skatepark to film an RC car commercial, hold a nerf battle, drop off your scooter kids like it’s a daycare, or basically any non-skateboarding rela…

28/03/2021

Japanese Skate-Surf-Rock from 1977
"Skateboard Jive" by the SURF RIDERS

22/03/2021

Vintage Skateboard Magazine Advert Gallery is now up 350 ads.

One of my favorite old skateboarding magazines in my Posession is Skateboarding Industry News, a magazine aimed at skateshops and movers and shakers in the skateboarding industry. There’s a l…

19/03/2021

Thanks to Darren Haugen for the tip, you should check out his 60's skateboard collecting group on FB, link in the comments.

When a plain old skateboard isn’t enough and you need to add a motorized sound to get the kids excited, the Irwin corporation has you covered. The advert is most likely from Toys & Playth…

19/03/2021

http://skateandannoy.com/blog/2021/03/new-zines-added-to-galleries/

It’s been a long time since I’ve added new zines to the 80’s skate zine gallery. Chipping away at the backlog, here are Skate Edge #2 from New Jersey, circa 1983, and Raw Zine #8 …

16/03/2021

I mean, that's what it looks like to me...

While we were out, Playmobil launched an action set featuring Chad Muska as the skateboard bandit and George Michael as the cop… Or maybe that’s not really true. However they currently …

16/03/2021

Website revamped. Checked off a "to do" box from 2019... Looks about the same but now it's no longer miserable on mobile devices. Desing for mobile first. Lesson learned. 🙄

http://skateandannoy.com

11/03/2021

Better than Nash and maybe not as good as Variflex at this point in the 80's. Check out this mini catalog and price plist form 1984. for Action Sports. Bomus video for era appropriate Cheap Trick song Invaders of the Heart.

I must have sent away for a catalog from Action Sports in 1984. I just found the postmarked envelope with full color one sheet and photocopied price list. I think that tagline is supposed to read &…

05/03/2021

More pictures of the fiberglass Skate-Ball ramps at the Rainbo Skatepark in Chicago, Illinois circa 78-79. Includes a bonus shot of Jay Adams and Dave Hackett. Thanks again to Nate the Skate!

Thanks again to Nathan Kipnis we’ve got even more pictures of the fiberglass Skate-Ball ramps at the Rainbow Skatepark in Chicago, Illinois circa 78-79. Includes a bonus shot of Jay Adams and…

03/03/2021

25/02/2021

Learn about the gory, glory days of mechanical paste ups before everything became Wild Riders of Keyboards… Kevin Thatcher interviewed in Thrasher -

Apparently in the world of skateboarding there is this thing called magazines and in particular, the longest running skateboard magazine called “Thrasher” is still thing. Why on earth w…

22/02/2021

Girl is Not. 4 Letter Word has a good read on Stephanie Person, a female black professional skateboard from the 80s. I could not recall her specifically appearing in mags in the 80’s but she did, and I do remember the featured “Sugar and Spice” article in Thrasher. Her experiences as a black female skater in the 80’s are unique even to other female skaters in the 80’s and not all for the reasons you’d expect. It’s notable that her career and sponsorships were result of her smart thinking and persistence. I only wish this had been a little more in-depth. One amusing side note: The editors’s note has to explain what a Swatch is for younger readers.

Girl is Not. 4 Letter Word has a good read on Stephanie Person, a female black professional skateboard from the 80s. I could not recall her specifically appearing in mags in the 80’s but she …

20/02/2021

We've stopped, but this was a good one to end with.

For 20 years Skate and Annoy has been archiving skateboarding footage when it appears in movies and tv shows and commercials. You may have seen some of our d...

11/02/2021

More Skate-ball pics on S&A thanks to Nate the Skate!

There are certain topics here on Skate and Annoy that though old, tend to cycle back into popularity every so often, and Skate-ball is one of them. If you’re not familiar, Skate-ball was a pi…

05/02/2021

Cleaning out the basement, found a couple issues of Skate and Annoy #8 dating back to 1988

02/02/2021

Bernies Sanders inauguration memes have definitely slowed down, but new ones are still trickling in. Bernie used that popularity to raise $1.8 Million (!!) to be donated to Vermont based charities, most of them battling food insecurity. One notable exception is the Nono-profit Chill Foundation, described as a positive youth development program where boardsports become a vehicle for empowerment. Unlike some so-called benefactors, you can bet that the funds will actually make it to the charities in question, and that is apparently…. radical. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

Bernies Sanders inauguration memes have definitely slowed down, but new ones are still trickling in. Bernie used that popularity to raise $1.8 Million (!!) to be donated to Vermont based charities,…

21/01/2021

Hopefully this means an end to unsolicited pro-Trump comments in an online skateboarding community near you. Help us find the original source of the editorial cartoon (right) if you can.

So glad this clown is gone. If you were in a skateboard-related online group in the past couple of years chances are you’ve had to put up with MAGA fools interjecting MAGA nonsense, unsolicit…