Chris Senn #3.

Bitmap.

Chris was the contest dominator back in the early 1990s.

When you try to be edgy and all you can come up with is Balls. Powell probably should have just stuck with the Bones theme for wheel names.

Top: Transworld - March 1992 Volume 10 Number 3

Bottom: Thrasher - May 1992 Volume 12 Number 5

Eric Ricks #5.

Drop dead black & white.

With a lot of the team leaving for other companies in the early 1990s, this provided a chance for some of the other riders to move into the spotlight at Powell. Of course a lot of the new faces eventually left for elsewhere as well, but it probably didn't hurt to have a model with the brand that created the Bones Brigade.

Jason Dill gives Doug Smith's part in Public Domain the classic treatment over at Thrasher. Nice move by Powell to slip in a song about eating Mexican food and getting drunk into one of their videos.

The one graphic for Polar's new pro Kevin Rodrigues looks sick.

Transworld - December 1992 Volume 10 Number 12

Bucky Lasek #4.

Race car driver.

Transworld - November 1992 Volume 10 Number 11

Adam McNatt #2.

Celebrity Tropical Fish.

It's going to be a quick browsing of Powell Peralta ads from 1992 for the week. In keeping up with the changes that were going on in skateboarding, Powell switched up their image to fit a little more with the times. The ads and graphics were an attempt to match up with what the new smaller companies were doing, instead of the traditional slick art you were used to seeing. I like how some of the results turned out. They are raw, but still have that aura of how Powell did things in the 1980s.

That Kevin Kowalski Magnified is completely nuts. Raise the roof.

Transworld - February 1992 Volume 10 Number 2

Tommy Guerrero #5.

Rocket surgeon.

Congrats on hitting the thirty year mark as a pro.

Vert Is Dead will be back on Tuesday. Enjoy the holiday.

The picture is by Luke Ogden.

Transworld - January 1992 Volume 10 Number 1

Hugh "Bod" Boyle #5.

Made in England.

The Toxic Death Sentence makes an ollie into a backside ollie at the last possible second.

Vert Is Dead turns seven years old today.

Thanks for all the support over the years.

Transworld - March 1992 Volume 10 Number 3

Kevin Staab #4.

Doughboys.

You might have to be Canadian to get that.

Anyway, following my brief aside on 1990s indie rock from north of the border, Shine was Kevin Staab's company in the post Sims years. Former Vision pro Joe Johnson also came along for the ride. Damon Byrd was on the team, too. Shine did not last very long in the fickle days of big pants and small wheels. The ad says backside ollie to revert, but from the sequence it sure looks like a straight up backside 360 to me. Kevin is a champ at backside ollies on vert.

The photos are by Emerich Hlava.

Transworld - April 1992 Volume 10 Number 4