Jeff Kendall #4.

Indiana Pacer.

Jeff is from Indianapolis. He rode for Madrid and Powell Peralta before getting hooked up with Santa Cruz. He moved out to San Jose in the mid 1980s. Jeff turned pro for the Dot and had a board with his name on it up until about 1992. He moved behind the scenes at Santa Cruz after the pants got bigger and the wheels got smaller. As a side note, he played guitar in a reunited version of the classic skate rock band The Faction. These days Jeff is the vice president at NHS, which is all things Santa Cruz, Creature, Flip, Ricta, and OJ.

Thrasher - August 1989 Volume 9 Number 8

Otis Christian.

Slow motion nollie flip.

Otis is from Las Vegas. He rode for G & S. His middle name is Glen.

For having a rather small team and never having ridden them, I can't stop scanning G & S truck ads.

A Shapiro took the photo. If anybody knows a first name, let me know.

Transworld - February 1989 Volume 7 Number 1

Chris Miller #9.

Gullwing goes New Wave.

This isn't one of the usual vertical surfaces you are used to seeing Chris ride. It's a rare sighting of Miller out in the streets. He also had a handrail boardslide for Billabong a couple years later. I don't really need to write anything more about how awesome Chris is, right?

Thrasher - February 1989 Volume 9 Number 2

Hugh "Bod" Boyle #4.

Bod was a big time vert shredder from England in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was pro for G & S and Santa Cruz. Neil Blender's band Toxic Death Sentence wrote an ode to him for a song in Alien Workshop's Memory Screen video. He works in the industry these days. There's a bunch of old Strange Notes videos on YouTube that I had never seen before that has ripping from Bod and all the other Santa Cruz riders from back in the day.

Props to Matt Bennett's for his part in the Dekline video. He made a good one. I forgot to mention that last week when it debuted on the Thrasher website. Are they making a DVD of True Blue?

It's December 26th in Western New York and I'm going to set up a new board to go skate outdoors. The weather is nice today.

Thrasher - September 1989 Volume 9 Number 9

Steve Alba #5.

Merry Christmas!

Salba Claus holiday grinder at Upland.

The photo is by Chris Ortiz.

This is from the 1990 Thrasher Calendar.

Steve Schneer #2.

Never forget.

Rest in peace Jeff Phillips, Ray Underhill, Jay Adams, Matt Reason, Keenan Milton, Phil Shao, Curtis Hsiang, Ruben Orkin, Blaize Blouin, Bonnie Blouin, Jaya Bonderov, Mike Bouchard, Andy Kessler, Tim Brauch, Harold Hunter, Shane Cross, Pat Brennan, Eric Stricker and everybody else we've lost along the way.

The late Sin Egelja took the photo.

Transworld - August 1989 Volume 7 Number 4

Tom Knox #5.

Just gonna grind those trucks down to the axles and wear the shoes out until they are held together with duct tape.

Interestingly, Tom skated to fIREHOSE's "In My Mind" for his part in Speed Freaks. Ray Barbee also skated to that song a couple years later in the Firm's La Buena Vida video.

Thrasher - October 1989 Volume 9 Number 10