Summer, 1989
The SECOND memory that came to mind was when I worked at a small bakery in Berkeley back in 89’ when Jim Thiebaud came in. Just outside Christian Hosoi and Tony Hawk were in the car waiting in the parking lot....like it wasn’t nothing but a thang.
That brought back memories...of my time skating Milpitas in the early 80’s..it was like right there in Berkeley, GIANTS were outside. KINGS. At Gilman & Sante Fe.
Ill.
Winter, 2012
I was amazed at Steve Caballero’s vintage footy of back-in-the-dayness.
It’s the kind of thing that you would remember if you skated in Milpitas or San Jose in the early 80’s.
And seeing Gator was just straight up, crazy. He was my favorite skater then, well, until THAT happened.
Needless to say, life trumps skate skills- but soul cannot be extracted from pure skating.
If you do it, you know what I mean. Heck I STILL rock a deck and I’m going on sumpin’ frickin’ 3!!
It wasn’t the obvious objective of the film, but I FELT it.
I think Rising Son affirms that a bit.
So I’ll be throwing the decks in the Jeep. Today my son and I will skate. And I promise not to bring him to tears by demanding we quit after an hour...he’ll want to keep at it.
Today, I’ll want to too (if only fueled by pure nostalgia.)
Tooling around in a little town called Emeryville.
PS
I kind of tripped at the obvious omission of Tommy Guerrero in anything other than contest stats [...often as taking first place in Street.]
2012, ladies & gentlemen, is the year of Elan; elegance, truth in experience, living what you love and loving what you live.
We'll be shining on it.
-bwlp
photo’s by J. Grant Brittain with the exception of the RS movie cover.
Tony Hawk photo from connect.in.com, Steve Caballero circa 2011 from fox sports.
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