Jilt3d just sent me some amazing, if not slightly aged footage… watching these is like hopping in a time machine.

This first one isn’t skate related, but it’s bad ass (and the most recent)… it’s Mr. Jilt and some friends riding trials-steez on mountain bikes.
Jilt3d riding trials
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A classic skate video… if not because of some of the names in the video, then because of how amazingly cheezy everyone is in it. I’m not knocking it by any means, I own a VHS copy of this flick and I’ve watched it about a trillion times. The 80’s were just so fun… plus a fella could get away with wearing fluorescent green “come get me” shorts. I’ll end my commentary on the decade and give you the toxin…
Skateboard Superstars
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If you’re under 20 years of age, you may not be aware that “Powell” used to be “Powell Peralta”. Way back in the day, before most of you were born, George Powell and Stacey Peralta formed one of the largest and most solid companies to ever exist in skateboarding. While both men ran the company, Stacey had one special talent that went beyond his own ability to ride a board… he made great skate videos. All of the skate vids that Stacey churned out are classics… especially this one:
The Bones Brigade Video Show
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If you made it this far, then you’re in for a very special treat… and it’s my favorite video post out of the whole stash. Before I give it to you, I gotta tell you younger cats that Small Times wasn’t Hammond’s first skate shop, nor was the Chicken Coop Hammond’s first skatepark… see, back in the 80’s, a place called Ribando’s was half skateshop & park/ half electrical supply company… it was a weird mix… you could go in and buy a skateboard, a skate shirt, and a power inverter. Ribando’s is still around, but they’ve long since stopped selling skateboards. Sadly, they no longer have the mammoth vert ramp that used to reside on the side of the place… that ramp was the first piece of vert I ever dropped in on. Ok, on to the video… this is footage that Jilt3d had of Ken Park (a big name vert pro back in the day) skating for the locals many years ago. If you don’t watch any other videos ever, watch this and see that Hammond has always had a skateboard fixation (it just didn’t always know it).
Ken Park Demo in Hammond, circa 1988