I just wanted to pay homage to some of the ads by Powell Peralta back in the day. Some might not know any of these guys or maybe have just heard about them in passing but the guys were superstars in the 80’s at least to the skaters of the world. Back before the internet was available on everyones phone and youtube had every video imaginable on it the only way we got to see what was going on was through the pages of Transworld and Thrasher. It was a simple time back then.
Hawk
Dudes
Such a rad collage
Lance and his skating upside down dog
I first saw this in the back of my very first Transworld, I traded a Surfer mag for it
The Brat, Mothra, Grosso he has had a variety of nicknames over the years. He still kills it every day and wears the best darn clothes ever
I never got the Steadham board back in the day but was always a huge fan of those graphics and now own 2 of them
So Original, where does Tony end and his board begin
The First Guerrero board
Guerrero and Jim Thiebaud
We keep telling our team to get out there and shoot with some quality photographers, well this is what happens when you listen. We just did another run of posters and did a couple thousand with Atwaters Chris Mumma. I was out back this afternoon setting up a little bank to curb next to the Atwater RV that we got parked behind the office and Chris rolled up with his girlfriend Ally. I thought what a perfect time to get Chris to sign some posters to hang up around town and specifically Wahoo’s. So below you can see how I made Chris feel like a celebrity and had him sign a few posters and snap a couple shots.
Next poster will be Isidro Vargas doing a Frontside Blunt down an 11 stair in Santa Ana, we discussed it yesterday.
Have you ever seen someone purposely set up their board upside down. I have seen someone put their trucks on backwards, throw the bird on the wrong mount but never have I seen someone ride a board upside down, that is until this morning when I checked my email and got a message from Devin Briggs. Devin works at Jokers skate shop and in their down time goofs around with the laws of physics. When I first opened the video he sent (which you can check out below) I figured he’d be doing some Rodney Mullen Darkslides not actually riding the board set up backwards. So take a look at Devin rocking his bizzaro board.
Stephen Carlin has been with Atwater for a good stretch of time now. He lives in Northern California so we don’t get to see him that often. I’ve been hitting him up for a while to send me some shots and I just got a couple from Stephens photographer Gary. Stephen also rides for Quinn Brothers Board shop located at 7112 Bodega Ave in Sebastopol. They should have some new gear in there any minute.
Stephen Carlin photo by Gary Ottonello
Stephen Carlin photo by Gary Ottonello
Stephen Carlin photo by Gary Ottonello
Jay from Spellbinders sent this picture over a while ago and I forgot to throw it up here. He was at the Shoptoberfest at the Reid Menzer Memorial Skate Park in York PA last month. Look at him rocking his Atwater so proudly.
Carl Carpentier who has shot many many photos for Atwater over the last few years and few of our Ads in Blisss sent over a few shots last week of Isidro Vargas and Pat Daniels.
