…may be at Dreamland as I write this.
OK, as of about 20 minutes ago, the guys were packing up and heading out. I have a handful of pics, as does Gregory. We got some footy, but we’re going to sit on that since the guys were filming a lot. No fear though, we’ll share the poached footage after they do what they need to do with what they got. We’ll let you know when their documentation of their time here is available… in photo and video form, as it comes out (should it).
Congratulations to Tim Buechele of Loranger & Wayne Gauthreaux of Hammond , the Winners of the final “Big Mike Raffle.” The two bought a total of 4 tickets, but as good friends they opted to double their chances by adding both names to all 4 tickets!
Tim is a skater from waaaay back, his first deck a GT model some 20-plus years ago! He parked his deck a long time ago, though, due to a left ankle blow-out and an addiction to Harley-Davidson motorcycles and building bikes. Tim is a regular at Dreamland Skatepark in the summer, supporting his 11 yr/old son’s passion for skating and has recently started trying to skate again with the help of an ankle brace.
Wayne has dabbled with skating on and off and also frequents Dreamland with his son Tyler, age 8. Wayne too has been caught “boosting” his son’s deck, but now he’ll roll with class!
Tim & Wayne both work at Hammond Harley Davidson.
Huge props go out to Tim and Wayne from Hammond Harley Davidson, who contributed to our money raising efforts, and lucked out by winning a huge stack of goods!
I should have some pics soon!
Due to some technical difficulties yesterday, we weren’t able to get everything taken care of yesterday as planned… so today is the day (or tonight, rather). Stay tuned!
Look out for the June 2008 issue of Slap… the cover looks lke this:
…turn to page 22, and notice the “GrimCity” part:
…that’s me, your friendly neighborhood Small Time Skates webgeek. The photo was take by Small Times’ very own Gregory Tracy (you may know of him as Dead Gregory). Anyway, I’m not putting a readable version of the article up yet because the magazine is currently on sale and we want you to go out and support the mag. They should be sold at anywhere where there’s tons of magazines.
Please write a comment and drop it on this page dedicated to a young ripper named Johnny Romano:
http://www.dlxsf.com/jr/2008/05/20/johnny-romano/
He just found out that a cancer that he thought he had beaten has decided to come back. Just click the link above, give the homie some props and support, and show him why skateboarders are the best people on the earth.
The official deadline to win this stuff is May 28. Come in, plunk down five bucks, and win the whole stash.
This is the very last Big Mike Raffle… come give it one last shot while there’s still time! Enter as may times as you can for better odds!
Before I leave you with that, here’s an edit I made off of some slightly older footage that has a good portion of Big Mike’s backyard ramp in it. We had shown up late, so we don’t have footy of him skating in this clip, but he had been ripping it the entire day before we showed up.
Anyway, please give this final raffle a shot. All of the funds will go directly to the Big Mike Trust, which will in turn go directly to Mike’s wife Darlene and son Erik (who also happens to be another skater to the bone).
Thanks.
These pics are so much better than the ones I had… courtesy of our very own Gregory Tracy. Scope ‘em out:
This is a student film, created by Brandi Matthews and Stacey Winokur. It almost looks like a news broadcast… anyway, we’re pretty stoked on the way it came out.
Remember that we owe skateboarding everything, skateboarding owes us nothing.
