Skate and Annoy

26/02/2024

Did you order patches or a book in a different lifetime? Then good news everyone! I finally got my act togetehr and mailed them out., even if you disputed the charges!

28/01/2022

I just added 27 stickers from the collection of Blockhead founder Dave Bergthold to the gallery of Vintage Skateboard Stickers, bring the running total to 541 stickers. The additions are almost ent…

26/09/2021

Drop em in

07/09/2021

Barney, come back and brush your teeth!

I found this 19060’s era commercial for Gleem toothpaste in the Prelinger Archives. I was actually looking for a Bell Telephone commercial featuring Patti McGee but found this one that I& #821…

11/08/2021

hey, did you hear? Skateboarding is/was in the Olympics! This made some people really happy, and an equal amount really cranky, if not downright mad. Here at Skate and Annoy it made us feel ambival…

02/08/2021

We now have 400 stickers int vintage skate sticker gallery!

The count on the Vintage Skate Sticker Gallery has reached 400! The last hundred added span from the 70’s to the 90’s/ Some of the highlights include healthy additions to the Zorlac cat…

29/07/2021

"I feel like if I wore one it would signify some sort of personal commitment to Tony, like those teenagers who give and wear rings as a promise to abstain from s*x."

Seriously, it brings me joy that int the year 2021 I can still make the occasional Gratuitous Tony Hawk post. These rubber rings from Groove Life feature two “new” designs, which means …

21/06/2021

Celebrate GSD by putting on your skeleton pants and making a zine! No skeleton pants and no photocopier? Then read this 2019 interview and buy the Best of Skate Fate, now available in softcover.

Celebrate GSD by putting on your skeleton pants and making a zine! No skeleton pants and no photocopier? Then read this 2019 interview and buy the Best of Skate Fate, now available in softcover.Pho…

09/06/2021

It’s Pride month. Enjoy Yann Horowitz answering the question “Do I really want to be the ‘gay skateboarder’?” in this video from Vans. Watch it for the story, or watch it for the skateboarding. One day, it will just be the skateboarding.

– Thanks to Pete Lewis for the tip.

It’s Pride month. Enjoy Yann Horowitz answering the question “Do I really want to be the ‘gay skateboarder’?” in this video from Vans. Watch it for the story, or watch it for the skateboardin…

07/06/2021

The Vintage Skateboard Magazine Advert Gallery has reached 500 ads! Some of the highlights of recent additions include groovy 70’s s**g carpeting thanks to Makaha skate shoes, Famous Sci-fi f…

06/06/2021

Shout out to Eastside Roll-In Skateboards and Skate Supply, a skate shop that just opened in Troutdale, Oregon, and the same place I picked up these Wipers tribute wheels from Portland-based Jivaro Wheels. If you’re hankering for more Wipers, check out Jackpot Records (label and store) that re-released Is this Real? on vinyl for the first time since it’s original 1980 issue, as well as their live album (Wipers Tour) from 1984.

Shout out to Eastside Roll-In, a skate shop that just opened in Troutdale, Oregon, and the same place I picked up these Wipers tribute wheels from Portland-based Jivaro. If you’re hankering f…

04/05/2021

447 filterable vintage skateboard magazine adverts and counting...

We’ve added 73 ads to complete the April 1976 issue of Skateboarder Magazine, bringing the total in the archive to 447! There are other galleries out there, some of them are really good, but …

29/04/2021

Lovingly constructed and shaped by hand with a price that reflects it.

Shred Skateboards makes skateboards from castor materials leftover from the surfboard manufacturing process, which is about 6 lbs per surfboard according to Shred. They are cruisers and oversized c…

27/04/2021

Sweathogs! What are they and what can your doctor give you to eliminate them?

I randomly found an old message with link to a bendy Gabriel toys figure of Horshack riding a skateboard. I’ve got the Donald Duck version from the same company somewhere buried in a box, and…

31/03/2021

Tip of the hat to Public Enemy

Normally I’m against using your local skatepark to film an RC car commercial, hold a nerf battle, drop off your scooter kids like it’s a daycare, or basically any non-skateboarding rela…

28/03/2021

Japanese Skate-Surf-Rock from 1977
"Skateboard Jive" by the SURF RIDERS

22/03/2021

Vintage Skateboard Magazine Advert Gallery is now up 350 ads.

One of my favorite old skateboarding magazines in my Posession is Skateboarding Industry News, a magazine aimed at skateshops and movers and shakers in the skateboarding industry. There’s a l…

19/03/2021

Thanks to Darren Haugen for the tip, you should check out his 60's skateboard collecting group on FB, link in the comments.

When a plain old skateboard isn’t enough and you need to add a motorized sound to get the kids excited, the Irwin corporation has you covered. The advert is most likely from Toys & Playth…