California. Damnit.
Oh well, never mind. Incidentally, where’s that article from? I remember that Sheffey back tail photo at WTC. The mention of Minus K at the beginning suddenly threw me back a good few decades too.
That’s from Skateboard!, second time around obviously.
I’ve got such a banging Jeremy Henderson photo, from a park in Ealing, that I really want to post but obviously it’s ancient. Might just story it.
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Rolling Thunder?
Nope, before that. From 1977, and it’s an indoor wood park.
I have a vague recollection of that. I think it was pretty sketchy and short lived. Can’t remember the name. It’d be cool to see the photo whenever and wherever it surfaces.
Nah, hard post that ancient shit.
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Re Mark Baker.
I’ve posted this in a different thread before but this interview/story is absolutely fucking mental and deserves a reup.
Apologies for the slight tangent but this seems like a good place to put this and I love stuff from the ‘elder era’.
Here’s Alva and the UK’s own 70’s skate superstar ‘Mad’ Mark Baker in Southport of all places in 1978.
From what I remember Mark Baker moved to the States and became a very famous party organiser in New York.
His story is interesting and touches on Alva’s significance at the time from a UK perspective.
Hit the Harrow photo below for more.
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Yeah, theres a really good/quite long interview someone did with him in the past 18 months.
Super interesting read. I’ll try to find it.
I posted it on here before - via the pic of him at Harrow - the direct URL is below.
Have just posted again 
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More ancient stuff of MMB here. I think it has to be 1979 and not 1978.
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NY Times article on Mark Baker.
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Yeah, proper deal pro board as far as I know.
I mean he was world class at cone wiggling.
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I can understand how I missed those.
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Hmm, they’re not exactly wall hangers are they?
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Graeme Stanners from Scotland was the first REAL pro on Foundation, Swank owned it Justin Lovely was imaginary. Only about 50 boards though. He then had at least 2 other decks 1 on GOODTIMES and 1 when it became GIA GOODTIMES Intelligence Agency. He was then their tour manager.
Bod also had his first deck on G&S
& Simon Levene or another U.K. Downhill/Slalom type had a deck on G&S fibre flex circa 2002.
Henderson & Sablosky both Yanks,
Mark Baker’s “Air Breaker” deck was a U.K. model.(I’m actually selling my Baker trucks which is how I ended up here 12 moths too late 
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It’s a pretty comprehensive list , others may come to me I’m trying to think of the decks that were hard to get when I was collecting,
http://bangorskateboardpark.50megs.com/My%20Collection.htm
I only got 1 of Ashby’s 2 for Iron Cross and never got any of Stanners but out of the blue 20 years too late there is one on French eBay with virtually no graphics left.
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