Mike Youssefpour #2.

I always get requests for Mike. Along with Mike Prosenko and Ross Goodman, he was one of the next wave of vert pros for Santa Cruz. Rob Roskopp wasn't going to be around forever.

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Bo Ikeda.

Bo rode for Hosoi and then a revamped version of Vision in the early 1990s before switching to Acme. He skated both street and ramps well back then and I bet he is still riding today.

Cesario "Block" Montano took the photo.

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Brandon Chapman.

Brandon rode for Powell Peralta and then turned pro for SMA. I really enjoy the graphic design of the Santa Monica Airline ads.

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Phil Chen.

This guy had a couple of cool photos in the late 1980s and early 1990s. That's all I know.

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Brian Lotti.

This seemed like the right thing for today.

If I had the choice of seeing Where The Wild Things Are* or going to Spike and Pat's night of skateboard videos** at the MoMA last night, I would pick the skateboard videos hands down. I'm not big on movies. I'm also getting worried about my attention span since I don't watch anything that has a plot these days. It's either sports, skateboard videos or dumb crap on Adult Swim.

* The movie theater in my town just closed down. It could only be closed for remodeling, but the newspaper story didn't sound very promising about the potential for it to reopen. Supposedly WTWTA isn't even playing Jamestown, which is a half hour away. I'm not driving an hour to Buffalo to see a movie. I don't care how good it might be. I don't roll that way.

** Hypothetically factoring in an opportunity to see No Age again is always a plus in my book.

Grant Brittain took the photo.

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Mark Roach #2.

Mark was the other young vert pro with Buster for Planet Earth. He was an amateur for Santa Cruz before that. Mark is from Texas. Some of his favorite pros at the time included Chris Miller, Jeff Kendall and Ben Schroeder. He liked skating at Jeff Phillips' Skatepark.

For the minimal background info: Transworld - August 1990 Volume 8 Number 8

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Buster Halterman #2.

A little more Buster for the week.

Niko Achtipes was the photographer.

Transworld - December 1990 Volume 8 Number 12