I wish i still had that Lucero

it was my favorite deck! If i ever find out who stold it they're dead.
http://www.theskateboardarchives.com/decks/images/80s_Schmitt%20Stix%20John%20Lucero.jpg

my bro had the Jeff Phillips that he broke
http://www.theskateboardarchives.com/decks/images/80s_orangephillips.jpg

HAMMERHEAD WAS DOPE TOO

http://www.theskateboardarchives.com/decks/images/80s_hosoi.jpg

http://www.theskateboardarchives.com/decks/images/80s_vision%20psycho%20stick%20(2).jpg

http://www.skateboard-decks.info/images/lance-mountain.jpg

Anyone have the Blind (Henry Sanchez, I think it was) deck with The Terminator graphic printed on, but the one where they printed the metal skeleton and then Arnold's face over it, so when the paint came off you'd see the print underneath.

I sold my first deck for $5 (I had no use for it then, and was a very naive 13 year old). It would be celebrating it's 8th birthday in like 5 weeks (whatever the teardrop text-emoticon is).

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Powell-Peralta-Skateboard-1980-Caballero-DRAGON_W0QQitemZ230298723445QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item230298723445&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

http://cgi.ebay.com/NOS-Vision-Gator-Mark-Rogowski-Vintage-Skateboard-Deck_W0QQitemZ190259207337QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item190259207337&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

damn!

great thread

Is Gator out of jail yet?

This was my first good deck.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2063/2245611182_f17566a99e.jpg?v=0

a completely busted up vision gator was my first deck, i never got any good at it though

First of all, I'd like to say that I'm totally stoked that this thread is about vintage sk8 decks and not something about some crap indie band that was supposed to be posted on ILM. Bitchin!

OK, so my first few decks were pretty cool:

http://www.iceice.co.uk/chall5/Keith_Meek_Slasher.jpg

http://www.hbeasyrider.com/catalog/images/VDRSRED-2.jpg

http://skateandannoy.com/features/ebay/2007/ebay056/images-big/roskopp767.jpg

But H-Street decks became far and away my favorites of that era. I had several, but this was my first (still have it btw):

I'm scared to continue posting images of classic 1980's decks b/c those were the halcyon days for sk8 graphics IMO & I could be at this all night.

This was supposed to appear after the line about H-Street:

http://www.clicheskate.com/img/prod/muse/img/th_clichemuseum-HStreet-Danny-.jpg

I can't believe how much some of these go for on ebay now. Mine were all beat up and scarred anyway.

My first three decks:

http://62.15.226.148/fot/2008/01/15/7089142.jpg

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u196/wheelbitedotcom/powell%20peralta%20boards/pp_tguerrero_daggercomplete_400.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/area51/scs_reaper.jpg

I think the O'brien was the 3rd, not positive. I used to write what number deck I was riding under the back trucks when I set them up - the last one from 1997 is still in my garage, I think it was #25.

That Gator deck is where it's at

lol I remember pretty much all of these

Serious. This thread is killing me.

i used to have this

http://www.tonyhallamskateboarding.com.au/images/Alvadanforth.jpg

and still have an old andy howell

always liked this one

http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/5/img0458ix8.jpg

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_-0yoiPfC0Jk/SIFZD4PLoJI/AAAAAAAAAEA/g6alSjKXf3g/scans2+025.jpg

That Gator deck is where it's at - and all Gator shit is worth $$$ b/c he murdered that chick. BTW, the Stoked documentary on the man is totally worth seeking out.

I met the dude like a month before that all went down. My 8 or 9 year old self was sketched out afterwards. Stoked is a heartbreaker.

Still sick:

Not enough fingerflips in Sk8ing these days. I also mourn the passing of the Saran Wrap, the no-comply, the boneless, and the shin-ha ha.

I, for one, do more no comply's (ok, 180 no complys) than kickflips.

(How the hell are there so many people with so many old (not to mention pretty $$$) decks, here!?!?!)

many xposts to kingkongvsgodzilla: I imagine you might be a bit younger than me, but the "future primitive" graphic is by far the definitive Lance Mountain deck:

http://www.freewebs.com/the_bones_brigade/mountain%20deck.JPG

mehlt, we do not currently own these decks (actually I do have the D. Way and the Ripsaw from upthread but they are covered in stickers and bashed to hell), we are just posting pix from the internets. But if I had the $$$, I'd totally start collecting vintage mint decks as a hobby.

My Gator wasn't a mini though. Black and neon green, black Gullwings, white 92a Slimeballs.

My cousin had about three of four of those Alva Bill Danforths - I never liked the Alvas from that era because they had the crazy concave tails.

I was way into Schmitt Stix and then New Deal when they first started out - I had a couple of Steve Douglass decks, the Danny Sargent, and a couple of Andy Howells. One of the Howells is still in my parent's basement, I think. I can't find a picture online, dammit.

And yes, I HAD all these, once upon a time, when they were new. I rode and broke and threw them all away fifteen years ago. Actually we used to throw them off the bridge in town, trying to get them to land on the wooden pilings in the middle of the canal.

One time we ran into a couple of little dirtbag kids who were riding one of our old decks - they took a raft out to the piling to salvage the old decks.

this is the one I had that doesn't show up upthread

http://www.skatesonhaight.com/Santa-Cruz-Skateboards-Jason-Jessee-Sun-God-MI-p/scmcjsg.htm

Alva Bill Danforths - Bill lived in Grosse Point MI (along with fellow Alva rider Bill Toco). I have a brother-in-law that lived in his neighborhood and met this kid who took me to Bills' to meet them and ride their half-pipe. I was 11 at the time and way to psyched out by the awesomeness of the situation to actually speak to them.

xpost - yeah, that Jason Jesse graphic roolz!

another classic:

http://www.climaxmfg.com/trucks/images/deck_lester_white.jpg

I had a Jeff Phillips deck that I can't find a picture of... I think it was a "Bad Boy Club"?

Is Gator out of jail yet? - I believe the dude was convicted of first-degree murder, in which case he will most likely be locked up 4ever.

Not enough fingerflips in Sk8ing these days. I also mourn the passing of the Saran Wrap, the no-comply, the boneless, and the shin-ha ha.

I'd like to add to this list of unfortunately forgotten tricks the gay twist, the Christ air & the rocket air. Does anyone still do that shit?

When I got into skating and saw the first couple of Bones Brigade videos, they were alright and all but didn't really do a whole lot for me. I lived in cold-ass middle of nowhere and there for sure weren't any pools or half pipes around me.

But then Public Domain came out and BLEW MY MIND:

The Natas part in Streets of Fire was probably a close second:

It's all about The Search for Animal Chin - "Skate to Create!"

Natas is IN JAIL. For SKATING. Which is ironic, see, b/c "Skateboarding is not a Crime." It's too bad younger generations didn't pick up the spinning-on-top-of-a-fire-hydrant trick. That shit was fucking classic.

One more post before I go nite-nite: Do u guys remembor those decks with the crazy wave-shape (almost spiked) edges? I can't recall if they were Dogtown or Zorlac decks (maybe something else, even). Someone that knows should post a JPEG.

I could watch old skate videos all day.

http://members.shaw.ca/area51/scs_reaper.jpg

THIS WAS MY DECK!!! corey o'brien! except i had it in purple!

my avante-garde move was to cover the ENTIRE TOP SURFACE with griptape. i think everyone does this now. they might have back then, too, but in knoxville they didn't.

the advent of the no-comply officially marked the end of my skateboarding career. it's a deceptively simple, elegant, beautiful move. i couldn't do it and so rather than practice until i could, quit :/

way xp to pillbox:

Naw, I'm old enough. But when that next wave of Powell decks came out (89 or something?) I was in love.

My first deck was a Vision Agent Orange. I found a couple of pictures, but my deck had a different graphic. : (

A check on Wikipedia says Gator is eligible for parole next year. I thought it was sooner, my mistake.

i was kind of inspired to start this thread from watching that Christian Hosoi bio late the other night.

the epic vert battles with tony hawk at del mar skate ranch and pipeline!

Waitaminute - where might one find this Hosoi doc? Can it be downloaded? I remember CH winning a highest-air vert contest back in the day. I totally demolished everybody else with a tweaked out method at about 10 or 11 feet (measured against a giant yardstick mounted to the back of the half pipe). Dude was my hero after that, along with Natas when he kept setting high ollie records. This kind of thing was pretty exciting at the time b/c it was way before the Xgames were on TV every 10 minutes, skateboarding had become a respectable passtime, and crazy mf's started doing shit like this:

"He demolished everybody else", i meant to say. I may have beaten Hosoi in a contest once or twice while daydreaming, though.

i caught it on one of those obscure HBO channels.

http://www.amazon.com/Rising-Son-Legend-Skateboarder-Christian/dp/B000I2J6Z0

http://i.imgur.com/A6mX3f1.jpg