Jeff Pang #3.

13 Steps.
In The Dark.
In The Rain.
'Pang' deck with new concave available now.
Beauty is most sublime when it is simply implied.
Power is at its strongest when it is evident to all.

Pang rode for Underworld Element, Cream, and Zoo York. He was also the team manager for Zoo. He's the sports marketing director for DC Shoes these days.

There was a cool look back on NYC skateboarding in Transworld last month that talked to a bunch of the heads from the mid 1990s.

This closes out Cream week. This one was a lot harder to put together than others because there was not a whole lot of source material to work with that I actually had. More New York City stuff on Monday.

Gunars Elnuts photogaphy.

Slap - January 1997 Volume 6 Number 1

Joey Alvarez & Rick Ibaseta.

Nothing without control.

Since one of these ads looks like an accident with the Photoshop Magic Wand tool, I decided to do a two for Thursday special.

Joey was also on Metropolitan Wheels.

Peter Huynh did a lot of the design work for Cream. I thought he maybe had a Venture or Indy ad at some point, but I couldn't find one, which seems to be the recurring theme of the week.

Joey: Thrasher - February 1996 Volume 16 Number 2

Rick: Thrasher - April 1996 Volume 16 Number 4

Cream Sports Team.

Here's the team posing with Jovantae Turner, who unfortunately got mostly cropped out of the photo. There is a color version of the pic in an FTC ad that fits everybody on the page.

Thrasher - May 1995 Volume 15 Number 5

Rick Ibaseta #3.

It's going to be a short week of Cream and related things.

Rick was an am and turned pro for New Deal. He was part of the original team on Andy Howell's Underworld Element. After things started to change at UE, Rick started Cream. The team was Jeff Pang, Joey Alvarez, and Peter Huynh.

I had the hardest time finding any ads for Cream. I checked Thrasher, Slap, and Transworld twice over from 1994 to 1996. I'm making an educated guess that they advertised in Big Brother, which I barely have any issues from for those years. I'm also going to make an educated guess that the Chrome Ball Incident and Skately have documented most of what Cream did put out.

Tobin Yelland did all the work.

Transworld - June 1994 Volume 12 Number 6

Damian Carbajal.

I like this photo.

Damian did a bunch of big ollies and impossible variations in Not The New H-Street video.

The H-Street timeline is simultaneously useful and a little hard to read.

This wraps up a look back at T. Mag and M.T.'s skateboard culture influencing beast from the late 1980s and very early 1990s. The team got too big, there were financial issues, and skateboarding went through a rebellious teenage phase where everything sucked so H-Street started to lose the coolness that it once had. The company stuck around for a few more years, but after the big names left for Plan B, things were never the same.

It will be a week of Cream starting on Tuesday. I got a couple of their ads and I'll figure something out to fill in the other day or two.

Have a good weekend.

Thrasher - January 1991 Volume 11 Number 1

Chris Livingston.

Achilles Last Stand.

Chris is from Phoenix, Arizona. He had been on H-Street since the Shackle Me Not days. He was part of their next batch of pros after the company became established. He did a lot of technical vert tricks. Chris has made a couple of comebacks over the years and has been sidelined with injuries from time to time.

It does look like H-Street is making boards again. The current team includes Tony Magnusson, Ron Allen, Eddie Elguera, Dave Hacket, and Art Godoy. It looks like you can pick up the classic Shackle Me Not and Hokus Pokus videos on DVD, too.

Sin Egelja was the photographer.

Transworld - August 1991 Volume 9 Number 8

Brennand Schoffel.

Devious as it may seem.

Brennand rode for H-Street. He turned pro for them and made the in house move to Life when that company was started. He was also on A-1 Meats. Brennand possibly enjoyed riding scooters with Matt Hensley.

Daniel Sturt took a lot of photos for H-Street.

Thrasher - September 1990 Volume 10 Number 9