i was mad into mad circle. drew these little dudes all the time.

Dan the man rogers.

T-Mag spillin the guts on why H-Street went under.

Jeff King!

arty Contents page with a John Reeves flick.

World hate.

More World hate.

SJ for MC

Henlsey wrap up. Talking about life in the chi. Click to enlarge and read.

Continued.

and continued.

Mike Carroll interviewed by Sheffey. I really wanted that playboy bunny deck too.

Click to read.

Donger.

Kanten

Duane Pitre. Crowd pleaser.

By the way, this was my first board. Planet Earth, Jason Carney.

I had no idea who Carney was at the time, and what Planet Earth was, but i think i picked it based on liking the illustration. I also had Thunders, 39mm wheels and the cheapest bearings the skate shop had. 

March and May 1993!

Creager + Big Pants = POOT!

Yep, Cardiel.

Mirko back in the day. Hes now holdin it down for UNIV and A#. 

Blunts and blunts. Paulo Diaz via Spike Jonze.

Miki shootin the loc’s

Markovich, up and down.

dont know where this dudes at, but cool photo.

RIP Harold, and RIP Underworld.

Wrench Pilot by Andy Jenkins

Another Spike Jonze joint. Rick Howard collage. 

This looks mad overwhelming, but its basically Tony Hawk, talking about how digital and computers is the next shit. And that sequence film cameras are bunk and the hot shit is video grabs. Thank god for the 1d MKIII, huh?

Jahmal Williams. Check Out. I’ve always wanted to skate that thing. Its still there.

Nick Tershay aka Nick Diamond.

Couple things i found in the January and February ‘93 issues. Enjoy.

Matt Beach. Back heel in encinitas. Oh yeah, he’s back.

Lance Conklin before the tattoos, beard and hot rods. But crackin’ ollies.

Rowley Check Out.

J Wray Check Out, written by Dill.

Opening spread to Dyrdek interview. Nose slide is butters.

Just cause Suriel is fuckin dope.

“Introducing The New Half Cabs”. You think Vans really knew how big of an impact this shoe was making and how long it was going to last? Colorway after colorway. From hip hop to hesh. It didnt matter.

Thomas Campbell had these editorial features called Crock Pot. Sort of the predecessor to Brain Floss. 

Gonz talking about Gonz things. Pretty cool collage too.

Mike York Check Out. At 15 i wish i could nose slide hubba.

Check Out Kanten’s high top fade. 3rd Base kidddddd! But Kanten does not get the gas face.

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.