TRASH
IN FULL BLOOM
Has Bloomingdale's, the most happening
department store in New York City, added a
slew of Jimmy Z wear and Thrasher products
COLLECTORS BEWARE
Is the hottest item on the thrift shop
collector's circuit the metal lunch pail? You
know, the kind you used to carry carefully to
school when it was filled with goodies, then
drop kick home in the afternoon. Maybe
vote
to their extensive inventory? Did Bloomies
invite several high-profile ambassadors of
skate to help kick off
this California meets
NYC campaign? Were
Hackett and Olson
spied working the run-
way in the men's de-
partment while Hosoi
and Osterollied stacks
of boards in boy's? Did
Thatcher conduct a
mag loss while Daddy
Ganzer signed Jim-
THRASHER
right for Alberta
my'Z paraphernalia, MC Skatemaster Tate
worked the mike and Ivan and Block re-
corded and photoed the whole deal? Also
attendance: Jimmy Z East Coast main man
in
that's why they're so
rare. In any case, our
Trashmen have come
up with a real gem, the
"Skateboarder" lunch-
box, featuring full color
caricatures of carving
and kickturning kids
(Sims, Alva, Jarvis,
Weaver, Cathey, Tom-
my Ryan, etc.) stolen
right off the the pages
of old Skateboarder Magazine.
PROMOOO
Our Skate Promo Tie-in award for
Richie Smith, Bloomingdale's Lori Medici, the month goes to the Danish Dairy
Keith Cochrane, Shut skatesmen Rodney
Smith and Bruno Musso, def photographer
Glen E. Friedman, Buffalo, etc.
ROLL 'EM
Has Bike Haus of Hot Springs, AR, added
a high tech addition to their fleet of ramps?
Is it a mobile double-faced showpiece
quarter-pipe to be used exclusively for
parades (they have a lot of parades out
there)? How'd you like to see that baby rolling
along at about 20mph while a slew of skaters
launch and cutback on the moving lip?
The Bloomie Crew:
Oster, Block, Olson,
Miss X. the model,
and C. Hosol. Photo:
Kevin J. Thatcher
Council for their ads showing a shapely
Bessie riding a rocker while balancing a
glass of cow juice.
A
RAMP IN EVERY YARD
Is this humble magazine ac-
tually running a campaign
for community supervisor
West Coast rolling B-boy M.C.S.M.T. kicking it and
cutting wax in the Big Apple.
in Calgary, Alberta, Canada? Canuck cor-
respondent Goofy Footed Radical assures
us that if Thrasher is taking over the world,
he wants to be assistant campaign
manager.
OBSERVATIONS AND INQUIRIES
Were Paul Schmitt, Jim Muir and
Necessities for the wholesome
young ripper: Skateboarder
lunch pails and milk from
Bessie the bitchin' bovine.
Bike Haus
RVROLET
Kevin J.
Thatcher the
most vocal interlopers.
at the recent "NSA meets the
Industry" meeting? Did Muir
demonstrate innovative leadership.
material? Did the assemblage later embark
to factory Alva and rub elbows with longboard
legend Herbie Fletcher? Why was
Jonathan Paskowitz not heard from?
In the further adventures of Paul Schmitt,
we find the Manatee man once again hard
at play. Last month it was parachuting over
Oahu, this issue it's free kneeboarding at that
NorCal skate resort, Lake Berryessa.
Is Gary Sanderson turning into a profes-
sional BMX/mountain bike type? Is Tracker
BIKES his sponsor?
Which rising young company has been
shopped around recently? Are Little Steve
and Big Daddy Dorf prime contenders? Has
Little Steve now turned into Big Daddy D.?
Is it a widely accepted fact that Per Welin-
der just graduated from a university? Is it
equally true that Welinder will soon enter the
industry in a marketing capacity? Further-
more, is it true that Per received a generous
gift of stock from his extremely supportive
father as a graduation present? Did the price
of said stock rise $10,000 in one day?
Are those ever-enterprising youngsters
Eric D., Tommy G. and Jim T. at it again?
Have Dressen, Guerrero and Thiebaud
actually opened up a 900-number where you
can call (for a slight charge, plus toll, if any)
and listen to a recording of guess who?
Skaters be advised to lock up your phones
in order to prevent parental abuse of this
phone service.
Is the ever-abundant Hustler Honey.
recently depicted au naturel in the midst of
a streetplant at Baldy Pipeline, now threaten-
ing to tell all in a skate mag interview? Will
today's skin mag heroine become tom-
orrow's slick-zine expose? Is this why G.S.D.
disappeared to Europe?
What was Lori Balma doing on television
dispensing disaster survivor info? Did
Tracker's oceanfront research facility nearly
slide off the cliff into the sea? Will Tracker
Larry continue to sleep in a tent on the cliff
ON BOARD
Left: Custom Bike
Haus porta-quad for
Instant rippage on any
street. Below: President
Paul plotting Schmitt
Stix marketing strategy.
organizations, S.PU. (the Skateboard
Photographer's Union), continues to baffle
the experts. No one is certain what the ob-
jectives of this semi-secret organization are.
Is it true that J. Grant Brittain refuses to wear
an S.PU. shirt? Has anyone ever seen an
S.PU. shirt? Is S.PU. a figment of Morton and
Sherman's collectively demented minds? Is
O an affiliate or a neutral?
According to marketing czar/international
sportsman Per Holknekt, over seven million
skateboards are currently in use in the
USSR. Are rumors that Per H. has been con-
tacted by Russian manus to come in and
help upgrade their program also true? Can
a true world contest be far off? Is Ted Turner
trying to get skating into the Goodwill
Games?
Did Rodney Mullen, in the midst of a New
York demo tour, tell startled observers that
he is going to Norway to live for a year?
Has the Bones Brigade video unit been
negotiating with guitar ace Danny Gatton for
the unspoken of video five? Did Peralta
recently book prestigious L.A. video factory
525 for a marathon 180-hours straight of
frantic on-line production work? Was the ob-
ject of this techno session an ever-esoteric
or will his new architect wife impose sanity, video for British Virgin Vision? Or was it for
safety and order?
Has Haight Skate Lee Cole abandoned his
Harley Davidson scoot in favor of roller
skates? Will Go man Dale Smith now pur-
chase an Indian motorcycle so that he can
quit riding also?
Was D. David Morin-former Action Now
editor, former professional skate contest TV
announcer, former law student and former
Mr. Krypto-just acting recently or has true
modern romance arrived? Was that ever-so-
steamy industrial strength lip lock that D..
Dave laid on a starlet on TV's Nightingales
beyond ultra real? Did Engblom send out for
the defroster to de-steam his big screen idol
following an inadvertent viewing? Did Mr.
Skip, who once coached Morin in the art of
jump-starting a car, also offer movie prep
foreplay advice?
Has the one-man industry Skipperboy
now returned to the land of Rambler convert-
ibles? Has Natas also secured a new
Rambler, along with a 1962 suicide door con-
vertible Lincoln Continental, for the Santa
Monica Airlines summer tour? Is Aleric V.
now motorized protocol advisor to the world?
Did Todd Swank set up a Rambler American
import scheme on his recent European
sojourn?
The most dreaded of all contemporary
the ultra quiet hush-hush P-P vid number 57
Were NSA headmen Don Bostick and
Tom Cozens recently observed on a remote
Indian reservation? Are they negotiating for
an upcoming non-mainstream event?
And from our Troll or Die Dept: Can the
Evinrude Outboard Marine Corp really be
serious? Their classic new skate-now-and-
buy-an-outboard-motor-when-you're-ready-
for-big-thrills advertising campaign is beyond
all logic. Ace skate defender Paul Von
Eichfeld of Casper, NY, is amazed (as are
we all). "Of course, the question is, is an
Evinrude right for you? You know the answer.
Sure as you were born." Following this epic
quote, what can we say except...you know
the answer. Never dare to dredge the lake.
Joe Mazzini of Montgomery Creek, CA,
points out our embarassment of embarass-
ments...inclusion in the Village Voice.
Question of the Decade: Will Mattel toys
offer their Skateboarding Barbie with a new
double-kick concave?
Is former Action Now/TWS/Musician Mag
art director D. David Carson now the head
design guru at Surfer Magazine?
And what could lead a further expansion
of skatepark building? Could it be the new
Jeff Phillips Skatepark in Dallas, Texas? Or
how about Winchester, Tennessee's Crown
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