Gino Iannucci #2.

The Islander.

This ad would have been from when Gino turned pro for the Label. He rode for 101 later and then switched to Chocolate for the long haul. What else do you really need to say? It's Gino after all.

Thanks again to the good folks at the Black Label for the link and posting this site on their Facebook page every day.

The weather looks promising enough to allow skateboarding over the weekend. It refuses to stop snowing around here.

The new clip of Grant Taylor skating an indoor masonite vert ramp on the Thrasher website is awesome.

Vert Is Dead will be back on April 8th with something involving Creature. I need a break from doing this thing.

Thrasher - August 1993 Volume 13 Number 8

Joey Tershay.

Aces.

Joey rode for Black Label and was the team manager at Independent Trucks. He started Ace Trucks in 2007. His cousin is Chocolate all terrain am Raven Tershy. His brother Nick is the man behind the Diamond Supply Company, which has gone from making bolts to become a big time street wear company.

Note: There was a weird screen pattern incorporated into the design of the ad, which is why it looks slightly pixelated. It makes sense in print.

Thrasher - September 1993 Volume 13 Number 9

John Cardiel & Skip Pronier.

Two mainstays of the early 1990s Black Label.

Cards does a noseslide and Skip spins a frontside 360.

Thrasher - November 1992 Volume 12 Number 11

Max Evans #3.

Whatever happened to this guy?

Max was pro for the Label and then vanished in the early 1990s. I want to say he rode for Poorhouse before joining up with John Lucero and company.

The photos are by Chris Ortiz.

Transworld - December 1991 Volume 9 Number 12

Jake Burns.

It's onto week two of the Black Label.

"Elle MacPherson, Cindy Crawford, and Paulina Porizkova, if you're reading this, don't get bummed. Jake really does like you, it's just that he wants Anne Pritcard to be his wife. He also wants a black Ford F-250 4x4, a lot of money, and a Cro-Mags/Black Flag record collection. Of course, if that fails, this all-terrain riding sixteen-year-old Huntington Beach resident will just hang with his friends, chase rad girls, eat tasty food and admire Mark Gonzales, Chris Miller, and Jose Cerda."

Jake happens to have the same name as the frontman for Stiff Little Fingers, which is why it says Nobody's Hero in the ad.

Alec Schroeder took the photo.

For the info: Thrasher - February 1990 Volume 10 Number 2

Thrasher - August 1990 Volume 10 Number 8

Jeff Grosso #4.

Whatever he is doing, he's at the forefront of it.

The picture is by Sean Sullivan.

Thrasher - January 1990 Volume 10 Number 1

Shawn Martin #2.

"I first met Shawn about three years ago, I think. It took place out in front of Concrete Jungle Skateshop and Orb introduced us. He was surprised that Shawn and I hadn't already met, seeing how we both were riding for the Concrete Jungle team. We then talked, and after that we went skating.

Shawn had just moved to San Francisco from Eugene, Oregon and didn't know many people. He was #@!*ing bad ass. He could do flippity wipp tricks three years ago, and he was the first person I ever saw do an ollie backside grab. He was also the first person I knew of who could do nose-grinds - he called them novacanes. He'd go up like he was going to do a regular slappy front truck lapover, and he'd scrape his rail like a Smith grind, then come off revert. I also saw him doing nose-grinds on Stewart's ramp and coming off of it without hanging up.

Shawn skates like himself and has since I met him. Wherever I've gone with him, he has juiced it, and ripped. He can ride anything, which qualifies him as a real skater in my book. Take him to a vert ramp and watch him learn tricks out of nowhere. Shawn and I are into the same kinds of stuff - skating fast, hanging out, and getting down to some blitzkrieg speedpit action. We just saw Suicidal Tendencies the other night and it was awesome. Muir got us both in for free."

- Noah Peacock

That was Shawn Martin's Check Out from 1991. He rode for Lucero and then Black Label, Independent, and Spitfire. He did turn pro for the Label.

Luke Ogden was the photographer.

For the Check Out: Transworld - May 1991 Volume 9 Number 5

Thrasher - July 1990 Volume 10 Number 7