They’re not all unused dezb. The SS, bulldog reissue and gashead have not been ridden but the others are used and cleaned up for hanging. The viking is still used but the photo was taken about 10 years ago.
If your talking Roskopp then it has to be the face.
If you’re into skate art look up the two ‘Disposable’ books by Sean Cliver (ex Powell and World Industries etc artist). Superb nostalgia. If only I had the money and space.
I got the chance to work with him years ago. I commissioned some illustrations from him for T-shirt designs. I was totally in awe of him, but I don’t think the company I was doing it for (the MD was a right ****!) had much of an appreciation of what a legend they were dealing with, and unfortunately, they never saw the light of day 😥
OK, normally i really can’t be bothered with all the hassle of adding pics to this forum but seeing as there’s clearly some old skate love on here…
ladies and gents, i give you the first UK made (prior to this bilbo sold the hobie skateboard from the US with their own logo stick on) commercially available skateboard in the UK.
this board was bought from Bilbo in Newquay in 1967.
Note that the wheels were originally painted white to make them look like clay wheels.
I have a leaflet that came with it too but for some reason i cant share the pic.
I used to love the old Zorlac decks – never had one – but the one I always wish I still had was the Santa Cruz Natas with the panther on (mine was kinda blue-ish stain):
Found some old Venture trucks with old slimeballs on a year or two ago in a box of old crap & stuck them on a nice retro mahogany effort like this:
was having a great time zipping round the kitchen on it until the missus caught me – I then re-purposed it as an attractive plant stand & put a big cactus on it, howver she kiboshed that idea too claiming a big spiky cactus balanced on a skateboard in the kitchen is not very “child friendly” 😆
I’ve still got a few of my old ones lying around. Sadly my favourite, the 36″ Schmitt YardStix with 70mm red Kryps snapped when a fat mate reckoned he could ollie it. I’ve kept this one for Jr, nos Hammerhead with some pink Slammers (a neighbour has a few sets of unused ones squirreled away)