Since my next post will be about quitting skateboarding, I thought now would be the appropriate time to give the people what they want, that is, a big dump of old photos from roughly 1986-1988. The image quality varies pretty greatly, sorry.
1986 everybody.
Team P.E.B.
Your author doing some suburban street skating, ie. jumping off a wall into a banked driveway.
Me sliding a picnic table bench at the old Lutherville.
Ed, launch ramp backside air in front of a dramatic sunset.
Ed sliding a curb.
Brian ollieing out of Jeff B’s launch ramp.
Brian airing off some skinny ledge. Look at that Rob Roskopp.
Brian, night skating.
Ed and Brian watching a street contest.
Jeff B getting super extended off his launch ramp.
Jeff B at Lutherville when the metal ramps were brand new. I don’t know if this was just super tweaked or a 180.
Someone I don’t know with a nosepick on the box at Lutherville.
Some random with a bent knee Christ thing at a contest during the height of the launch ramp era.
Closed gas stations. The natural habitat of the suburban skater.
An unknown with a FS wall ride transfer at a contest in Ocean City, MD.
More random shots of people I don’t know. Some guy with a nice FS 5-0 at the old Ocean Bowl vert ramp.
Kids at the Ocean Bowl. I don’t think this was a make.
Paul Wisniewski with a layback grind to tail on the steep bank at the Save Lutherville contest.
Paul Wisniewski with a FS rock on the Lutherville mini. Texture courtesy of beginners B&W photography experimentation.
That gas station in the picture was on Main St. in Bel Air, just a hair’s breadth from Bel Air Boards skateshop. I was very young (~ 9 -10 yrs old) and used to skate there a lot with a couple of friends.