Pete Eldridge.

In a sight almost as rare as Bigfoot, here's Pete Eldridge doing a trick in his normal stance instead of switch.

Pete rode for Stereo, Bootleg, City and floated around in sponsorship limbo until Jamie Thomas offered him a spot on Mystery a couple of years ago. Since then he has also gotten sponsored by adidas.

Slap - September 1999 Volume 8 Number 9

Kerry Getz.

Hockey Temper delivers a kickflip frontside boardslide to fakie.

Who knew that a stupid video from a wheel company would turn into a multimillion dollar entertainment franchise?

I watched the end of Street League yesterday. Nice to see Sean Malto get the win.

Thomas Campbell took the photo.

Transworld - March 1999 Volume 17 Number 3

John Cardiel #6.

Cards. Kickflip. Gnarcotica.

Thrasher - December 1999 Volume 19 Number 12

Jim Gagne #2.

Tech gnar.

Nollie flip out of a nose manual, slide a rail with skate stoppers, Miller flip at a skate park, Gagne got some tricks done.

Pat O'Dell has a bunch of photos up from the Super Skate Summer show in Portland on Epicly Later'd. Lots of pics of Andy Roy, along with Julien Stranger, Jason Dill, Chris Johanson, No Age and all sorts of people. I just want to see No Age again.

I got the email today that my copy of GSD's Skate Fate book has shipped.

Thrasher - August 1999 Volume 19 Number 8

Ricky Oyola #5.

I guess this is the time on the internet when I'm supposed to be the grumpy old dude telling all the kids to support Ricky by buying a Traffic board because he's a legend. And that's a message that I can fully endorse, even if I haven't ever ridden a Traffic board myself. I've looked, but they never had my size or I wasn't feeling the graphics on the ones that were in stock or something like that. I do fully intend to ride one of their boards someday.

I am going to step up on the virtual soapbox for a second and say to support Hardtimes Manufacturing. It's a company done by former Anti-Heros Brian Seber and Tim Upson. I just had one of their boards and I really liked it. Everything about it was right. Good shape, good paint, good size. The deck I had did have a deep concave, which might not match up with everyone's personal preferences. I was fine with the concave. I would definitely ride another Hardtimes board and hope to again soon.

I also want to check out the High Five and Roger.

Transworld - March 1999 Volume 17 Number 3

Chris Senn, Bam Margera & Elissa Steamer.

This is a follow up to yesterday's Chrome Ball Incident posting of Chris Senn. The backside disaster photo that was Photoshopped to look like Senn was doing the trick on the Republic Bank Building in Houston is from here.

You also get Bam doing a big drop in and Elissa doing a kickflip down a big set of stairs.

All hail the Machine.

The photos are probably by Ryan Gee.

Transworld - May 1999 Volume 17 Number 5

Jacob Rupp.

Spill The Wine.

Jacob rode for Creature, Santa Cruz and Element. He also rode for Satori Wheels. He's wearing some Kastels in the photo. That ground looks ridiculously rough.

Thrasher - April 1999 Volume 19 Number 4