The Reason Why.

History lessons.

It's important that long running magazines dig through the archives to rerun older stuff that a current reader might not know about yet. Columns such as this probably planted the idea for doing a skateboard nostalgia website in my mind. It probably did the same for a bunch of other people, too.

The times sure have changed in 18 years regarding the slappy. A trick that got pushed by the wayside is once again a staple of skateboarding. Granted they aren't simply confined to curbs as they once were, but that's what progression looks like.

Note: Some of these articles might be hard to read on the screen, but if you drag the JPG to your desktop and open it on your computer, it will be easier to read. I scanned the bulk of the stuff in at a larger file size to facilitate legibility.

I'm not sure who wrote the Lee Ralph feature. Mark Whiteley penned the Julien Stranger article.

The Ralph photos are by Kevin Thatcher and Gabe Morford. Luke Ogden took the Sargent pictures. Chris Ortiz snapped Stranger photograph.

Lee Ralph: Slap - May 2001 Volume 10 Number 5

Slappys: Slap - June 2001 Volume 10 Number 6

Julien Stranger: Slap - August 2001 Volume 10 Number 8