DITC #1 - Diggin In The Crates

If you liked Big L and Fat Joe before he was Don Cartagena running with TS, then you were into DITC.

So, I started diggin in our own crates, or binders and thumbing through old issues of TWS. Basically going down memory lane from when I started skating, which was right around 1992. Yeah not that old to some and old to the young bucks who probably weren’t born until the 90s.

I was 10 when I first saw my brothers friends skating, and from then on I was hooked. My brother was just starting high school at the time, and he went to Stuyvesant High School in the city. There were no news stands in Queens to grab skate mags, so he would buy Transworlds and Thrashers for me on his way back from school. It wasn’t until like a year later, my mom finally bucked up the 12 bucks or whatever to get me a subscription. 

Anyway, check back and I’ll be updating the blog with more issues.

(click the photos for full size jawn)

July 1992

Spike shot some dope photos. 

Jordan Richter in the World park

Even making a blunt slide on a curb look ill.

Ron Chatman.

Check Out spread with Cardiel and Kelly Bird that was on Crailtap.

Tony Hawk wrote about blunt slides.

Eric Ricks nose blunts a handrail back in 92! and sequence of Koston on the right. A mis-captioned crooks to pop-over front foot flip out? I think the rail Eric Ricks skates is the same rail that Koston 360 flip nose blunts in Yeah Right!

November 1992

Berra vert cover? Yeah, he skated vert, and did it well. Don’t really know why there are bananas behind the photos though.

Justin Gerard pro spotlight. I was mad into Mad Circle back in the day. It was also the first time I heard of Barry McGee aka TWIST who was doing the illustrations for them including behind the text in the interview. Let The Horns Blow!

Shiloh. Strobes and long exposure. 

Pre-Beauty-And-The-Beast-Collabo. 

Cardiel and Koston.

A very young Fred Gall. 

Found the Check Out for Todd Baechle aka Fink from The Faint who were recently on a Wednesday’s With Reda. Dude really did skate. And for H-Street and Phat Clown! Matt Hensley approved. Musicians stick together I guess.

Speaking of Matt. He started Phat Clown back then. But was also on Droors at an earlier time?

This is his ad. The ad is rad. Read it.