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7/9/15

Vintage Skate Stuff: 1987 Hosoi Autograph

Part 4 of a look into a collection of various skateboarding memorabilia from the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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This is a photocopied picture of Christian Hosoi that was given out at a Jimmy'Z demo at Val Surf in North Hollywood, CA back in the summer of 1987. It's from a Jimmy'z ad that was in one of the skate magazines, Val surf put their business card on it and made photocopies of it to give out. These were given out for Hosoi to autograph. Hosoi did sign this one, and as with most of his autographs back then, he added the year. After being proudly displayed for awhile, this photo ended up stashed in a Thrasher Magazine that was tossed in a box with other old skate mags and stored away for two decades.

Ended up finding this when pulling out the old collection of skate magazines a few weeks ago. Brought it to the Agenda Trade Show to show to Christian. Caught him outside and he immediately recognized the shot.

"Backside 360 Judo Air!", he said, "My signature sure has changed a bit since then." as he updated the old photo with a new autograph and the current date.

Hopefully, I'll have him sign this photo again in another 20 years.

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Previous entries:
Part 1: Vintage Skate Magazines, Catalogs, & Newsletters Overview
Part 2: California Cheap Skates Catalog
Part 3: H-Street Newsletters

6/25/15

Go Skate Day

Sunday, June 21, was International Go Skate Day. Venice Skate Park celebrated this day by hosting a Skate your Ass Off contest, raffles, product tosses, a Girls Bowl Demo and a row of vendor booths. Here's a collection of skate photos from International Go Skate Day at the skate park.

Haden Mckenna

Pauline Brannon

Joe Contraras

Hashtagging for free boards.

Haden Mckenna

B. Waters

Desmond Shepard

There's a lot more photos in the 2015 Go Skate Day Photo Gallery

Videos of Go Skate Day and the Skate Your Ass Off Contest will be up in a day or so, subscribe to our YouTube Channel .

More from Venice Skate Park:

5/28/15

2015 Jay Boy Classic

Willy Lara
UPDATED 6-3-2015: Videos of the contest are now online: Jay Boy Classic Videos

The 2nd annual Jay Boy Classic was held on May 23rd 2015 at the Venice Skate Park. Hosted once again by Z-flex Skateboards, the Jay Boy Classic featured 3 events. First was an amateur bowl jam where skaters in 3 different age groups competed for over $2,000 in products, then a Masters Jam that featured skate legends such as Dave Hackett, Steve Olsen, Steve (Salba) Alba, Tony Magnusson, and Pat Ngoho. And wrapping up the day was the Invitational Cash Grab, where there was a list of tricks posted up, each worth a cash prize. Who ever was the first do a trick, or the highest or longest for some tricks, took that trick's cash. Basically an exciting free for all, as there was several skaters riding the bowl at the same time trying to be the first to claim the cash. Also up for grabs was the Osiris Shoes ‘Spirit of Jay Award’, a custom guitar from Prisma Guitars.