Bill Danforth #2.

Danforth in yr face on G & S trucks.

It's another Mouse photo.

Thrasher - September 1989 Volume 9 Number 9

Ken Fillion.

Ken rode for G & S and Toxic back in the day. He is still skating today and riding for John "Tex" Gibson's Embassy Skateboards. Don't mess with Texas.

Transworld - November 1989 Volume 7 Number 7

Monty Nolder.

I've gotten a few requests for some pics of Monty over the past months and I was keeping an eye out for a good one.

Jamie Mosberg took the picture.

Transworld - August 1989 Volume 7 Number 4

Tom Groholski #2.

This is from an interview with the Jersey Devil by Glen Friedman:

Do you think California pros are threatened by pros outside of the sunbelt?

I don't know. They might be a little bit. It's not like we're out to get them or anything. We're just back here with no magazines, no companies, no hype (don't believe the hype) and crappy weather. We don't skate because it's a novelty or because it's hip. Things are not handed to us here like they seem to be there. We have to shovel ramps and deal with bad weather. We work to skate and we appreciate what we have. I like it back here better because it's not as big on a fad level. It's big but it's on an underground level. We can have a pool and not have it graffitied in a week, and we can skate the pool for longer because there are not a million people going there to make it obvious or a bust. We're not worried about catching up to those guys. I don't think there's any catching up to do nowadays.

Outside of this area, who do you like to skate with and why?

I'll skate with anybody, but I don't like competitive attitudes, like jock skateboarders. If it comes down to a contest type attitude trip, I'll just sit down, let those guys go for it and I'll skate when no one's around. I'm not into that type of situation. As for favorites, I like to skate with Dan Wilkes and Jeff Phillips because they're my friends. And as for style, Reese Simpson, Lance Mountain and Steve Caballero are the people I really like to watch.

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RIP Eric Stricker.

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The picture is by Marty "Jinx" Jimenez.

For the ad: Thrasher - March 1989 Volume 9 Number 3

For the quote: Thrasher - September 1989 Volume 9 Number 9

Lee Ralph #2.

Matt Mumford offered up this bit of praise for Lee in the current issue of Thrasher:

"Even though Lee's from New Zealand, us Aussies claim him as our own. He's one of the best skaters to come out of the Southern Hemisphere, and one of the raddest blokes that's ever been. I guess Australia and New Zealand are just gonna have to learn how to share when it comes to Lee Ralph."

David Walsh snapped the photo.

For the ad: Transworld - October 1988 Volume 6 Number 5

For the quote: Thrasher - October 2009 Volume 29 Number 10

Marco Saiz.

Marco is the brother of former Powell Peralta pro Steve Saiz. As far as I know he never got heckled at EMB, but it's not like I was there or anything.

I never rode a Vision board. I did acquire a couple of old decks from friends back in the day, but those were too used to bother setting up. I'm sure one of my friends had a Lee Ralph that actually had a kicked up nose for a brief amount of time. This would have been from when companies were starting to experiment with longer noses. I don't recall any of my friends riding Vision boards either. We stuck with Powell and Santa Cruz before H - Street, New Deal and World Industries came into play.

O photos.

Transworld - December 1989 Volume 7 Number 8

Jinx, Gonz & John Grigley.

I wanted to post this one for the pic of Mark Gonzales.

Grigley did some graphic design for Poison. Hey, it was the 1980s.

Jinx handled a lot of the graphic design stuff for Vision in addition to taking some photos.

Photos: Jinx by O, Gonz by Grant Brittain and Grigley by Jinx

Transworld - June 1989 Volume 7 Number 3