Keenan Milton #5.

Royal Flush.

The only New Yorker on the team puts down a smooth switch inward heelflip in SF.

I have to give some props to the guys who do the Skim The Fat website. I have no idea if they read this or if they will ever update their site again, but it is a very useful tool to have for tracking down bits of skateboarding history.

Transworld - October 1999 Volume 17 Number 10

Andrew Reynolds #4.

Organ Donor.

I had a change of plans and figured I'd just finish the week out with Fourstar for today and tomorrow. Maybe I'll even get a shout out on Crailtap.

Transworld - August 1999 Volume 17 Number 8

Colin McKay #3.

Aces High.

After watching Alex Perelson's part in Since Day One a few times, I've been on a Colin kick. There are some definite similarities between the lip tricks that Alex does and what Colin did way back in Questionable. One video reminds me of the other. I need to watch the Chocolate Tour again sometime soon.

For some more older school vert, check out the Chromeball Incident today for Joe Lopes. Classic.

Transworld - February 1999 Volume 17 Number 2

Mike Carroll #8.

Crack Raider Razor.

I've been feeling the old Fourstar ads from underneath a pile of day job work. Expect another one tomorrow.

Transworld - April 1999 Volume 17 Number 4

Patrick O'Dell.

I said on Thursday that the next post would be epic. Sorry if you were expecting Andy Roy, Dustin Dollin or somebody along those lines.

Pat used to be a staff writer and photographer for Thrasher. He has since moved onto documenting important figures in skateboard history for Vice Magazine with his great Epicly Later'd series. He also directs the occasional music video.

Are those Vitas?

Dennis McGrath took the photo.

Big Brother - November 1999 Issue 54

Dave Carnie & Rodney Mullen.

Dave and Rodney break down the anatomy of a freestyle board.

Freestyle boards were usually 7 to 7.5 inches wide and about 28 inches long, if memory serves me correctly. They were very flat with minimal kick in the tail and none in the nose. Nose and tail were roughly equal in length.

One thing they didn't mention was wheel size. Freestyle wheels were usually about 55 mm. This was considered smaller than what was normally thought of as a street wheel at the time, which would have been in the 58 to 62 mm range. A few forward thinking street skaters started riding freestyle wheels in the early 1990s to facilitate more technical tricks.

I've just been picking random things out from Big Brother that were skateboard related for the week. I maybe should have done a week of product reviews, where Carnie's creative writing really shined.

I'm taking tomorrow off from work so there might not be a Friday post. Or there might be. Either way Monday or Friday will be epic.

Rick Kosick took the photo.

Big Brother - November 1999 Issue 54

Sean Cliver #2.

Cliver survives a trip to Japan with Jeremy Klein and Heath Kirchart.

The number of the beast is happening at the Chromeball Incident today. I had thought of doing something for my 666th post, but lost count along the way and never came up with anything. Looks like I blew it for 900 by using Hawk's famous spin last week.

Big Brother - March 1999 Issue 46