Jason Rogers #2.

The Arcade.

It's another week of H-Street classics.

Jason was pro for H-Street. He was one of the well rounded skaters on the team and could skate both vert and street. Jason started Arcade Skateboards at the end of the 1990s. The team included Tyrone Olson, Daniel Haney, Jay "SAD" Stephens, Steve Hernandez, Malcolm Watson, and Pontus Alv. After a hiatus, Arcade has been back in business for the last couple years.

Next week will be a short one with the holiday, but I will have some ads for Cream scanned. It was looking like that was going to be a request that went unfilled until I found a couple of things.

The photo is by Mark Waters.

Thrasher - July 1990 Volume 10 Number 7

Ron Allen #3.

In it for the long haul.

I wonder what Brian Anderson will end up doing next?

The photo is by Luke Ogden.

Thrasher - May 1990 Volume 10 Number 5

Matt Hensley #7.

Fortunate Son.

Transworld - March 1990 Volume 8 Number 3

Danny Way #3.

Power edge.

After leaving Powell Peralta for H-Street, Danny quickly began to establish himself as one of the best. He would have been fifteen in these photos and skating on par with a lot of older pros. He was riding both street and vert with an equal level of skill. Danny helped build H-Street as the name for innovative skateboarding in the early 1990s. He left briefly for Blind and then returned before the Plan B exodus happened.

Christian Kline took the photos.

Transworld - February 1990 Volume 8 Number 2

Colby Carter.

"His name is Colby Carter and he's going to work."

Colby is from Phoenix, Arizona. He shared a part with Brian Lotti in Hokus Pokus. Colby put together a bunch of street lines with some tech stuff. A backside 360 down some stairs was a big deal for 1989. He is currently the lead designer and marketing director for California Skateparks.

I picked up Transworld's Perpetual Motion on Sunday. I'm liking the parts from Tom Remillard and Silas Baxter-Neal. Silas' handrail to handrail hop is amazing. Walker Ryan and Josh Matthews are pretty good, too.

Thrasher - January 1990 Volume 10 Number 1

Tony Magnusson.

H-Street.

Tony started H-Street in 1987 with Mike Ternasky. It was known as Magnusson Designs up until 1988. This was probably a good name change because self titled companies don't always work out for the best. The early team included Matt Hensley, Ron Allen, Danny Way, John Sonner, Eddie Elguera, and Brian Lotti. There were a lot of guys on the team over the years so I'm just mentioning the bigger names. They shook up skateboarding with the Shackle Me Not video in 1988. Instead of the high end Powell Peralta productions, Shackle Me Not was more lo-fi and filmed with standard video cameras. No fancy gimmicks, just raw skateboarding that the kids could identify with. And did they ever. H-Street went on to become one of the biggest companies in skateboarding in the late 1980s and early 1990s until things got a little too big and everything fell apart. It was a good run while it lasted.

Transworld - January 1990 Volume 8 Number 1

Chad Muska #4.

The Muska.

I miss the Toy Machine devil cat logo.

The Deathwish video is tight. Not a lot of filler and a lot of skateboarding that goes by at a fairly quick pace. There's also a lot of backside 360s. I'm not sure I was feeling some of the song choices, but at no point did the music not fit the skating or the skater. I realized two things while watching it last night: 1. Deathwish has a lot of guys on the team that go by nicknames: Lizard King, Furby, Slash, and Moose. 2. Skateboarding is really complicated these days with all the technical tricks.

I got two weeks of H-Street starting on Monday. That gives me two to three weeks to track down some Cream and Metropolitan ads.

Transworld - December 1995 Volume 13 Number 12