4/27/15

SM Pier Paddle Registraion Open


The Tommy Bahama Paddleboard Race & Ocean Festival at the Santa Monica Pier on June 6th, 2015 is an annual all-day, family friendly celebration of decades of surf, paddleboard and lifeguard history.

The event benefits Heal the Bay, the 
Santa Monica Pier Aquarium and 
its public marine education facility. Heal the Bay will receive a portion of net proceeds from the event. Partake in the kids beach, ocean, waterway stewardship and trivia contests. Help raise money for Heal the Bay!

Tracing it’s roots back to the 1930’s Santa Monica Pier paddleboard races – some of the first in the world – this year’s event offers epic competition. Courses start and finish on the sand immediately south of the Pier.

Events
SUP & Paddleboard Long Course
Elite Long Course
2-Mile Fun Paddle
Paddlecross
One-Mile Ocean Swim
Youth 250M Swim
Lifeguard Dory Race

To sign up for this years races, visit the event's registration page:
Santa Monica Pier Paddle Race & Ocean Festival Registration

For photo and video coverage of last years races, click here.


4/16/15

Vintage Skate Mag, Flyer & Catalog Scans: H-Street Newsletters


Part 3 of a look into a collection of various skateboarding memorabilia from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Every week (or so), we will pick a couple items to go over and give them high-resolution scans. This week, two newsletters from H-Street.


First up is a H-street Newsletter from October 1991. It is a single page newsletter with printing on both sides. H-Street would send out a newsletter every few months or so, it would give updates on their skate team, products, and info on their next video release. They sent out this newsletter right after Mike Ternasky left the company and started up Plan B, taking several of H-Streets riders with him. This is mentioned in the main section on the front page. Also on the front is info on submitting for sponsorship, a update on their demos, and a section about art work that people have sent to them.


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On the back is info on their next video release and more artwork they recieved from fans.

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The next newsletter is from 1992. They now called them "The Orange Report". It was a 4 page newsletter printed on orange paper. Unlike the other versions that were folded and put in envelopes, this one was folded, stapled shut, and had the mailing label attached to the front page.

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The front page had info on their latest video "Next Generation". The second page contained a quiz about the video, in which the first 20 people to mail in the correct answers would win a skate deck. also on the second page was a best of poll for the video and a section about what all skate team members have been up to.
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Page three is all about their newest products.

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The back page contained a section where tony Magnusson talks about filming and editing and then a section where Eric Koston and Alphonzo Rawls are interviewed.

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That's all for these two items. Will have scans of more stuff next week.

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

4/9/15

Ocean Park Classic Car Night #8


Ocean Park Classic Car Night #8 happened on St Patrick's Day. And it was one of the biggest turnouts so far. A great collection of muscle cars and vintage European race cars filled up the lawn and parking lot of the California Heritage Museum, while an assortment of gourmet and specialty food trucks filled the rear parking lot.


Mustang G.T. 350 Fastback


Porsche 911


BMW 2002


1974 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000


VW Bug


Chevelle SS



1959 Peerless


Zimmer Golden Spirit


The Ocean Park Classic Car Night is community event that's put on by the Ocean Park 26 clothing company. It's held the third Tuesday of each month at the California Heritage Museum alongside their weekly Food Truck event.

Past Ocean Park Classic Car Night posts:
Night #1
Night #2
Night #3
Night #4
Night #6
Night #7

Check out a bunch more photos of the cars from this night, as well as all the other nights in the complete gallery:



Here are a few more car photo galleries:


For a complete list of Automotive Galleries, Click Here

Venice Skatepark - March Photo Highlights









More photos from March, click here.

More from Venice Skate Park:


4/2/15

Late March Swell at the Venice Pier


A gloomy Sunday morning with the Bright brothers, Yves and Patrick, making the best of some big, but closeout waves.