Venice Skate Park Clean Up Day

On Tuesday, a few dozen volunteers showed up for a clean up day at the Venice Skate Park. With supplies donated by The World's Best Graffiti Removers and help from Elroy's Pressure Washing Co., the park was cleaned up of all the graffiti, as well as all the trash that littered up the park.
Jesse Martinez, who has been volunteering his time every morning maintaining and cleaning the skate park since day one.

"Hi Everybody,
I am writing this on behalf of our friend Jesse Martinez with the V.S.A. He is the one who has been cleaning and maintiaining the Venice Skatepark for the past 5 1/2 years. About six months ago, the City of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation decided to make some cuts, and killed their deal with the V.S.A. They offered Jesse a job as a city employee to clean the park. He filled out an application about 4 months ago and since then, the City has just left him hanging. In the meantime he has been cleaning the park without any financial backing. He does get some donations, but usually its just enough to get things going. Its time that the community steps up and helps out. If you are from Venice and care about this place, or if you are new to Venice. This skate park is an important part of our culture and lifestyle. We need a clean, safe place where we can send our kids to go skate! The Venice Skatepark is important! It keeps our younger generations out of trouble and gives them a healthy positive outlet to focus their energy on. It teaches them that with focus, determination, and perseverance, they can accomplish anything! Lets provide them with a clean place where they can go. Lets lead them, and teach them by example. Please step up and help Jesse Martinez and the Venice Skate park. The time is NOW!"

- David Fowler

To help out the skate park, visit the Go Fund Me page.







Check out all the photos from today in the Venice Skate Park Clean Up Day Gallery

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Ocean Park Classic Car Night #9

Ocean Park Classic Car Night #9 was held on April 21. Another great turnout of classic American and European cars and trucks. And unlike most cruise night spots, the Ocean Park Classic Car Night isn't held in a regular parking lot. It's held on the front lawn of the California Heritage Museum. A very picturesque spot, with the historic museum on one end and the beautiful Victorian, a 1892 mansion which is now a restaurant, on the other end. Also, a group of gourmet food trucks fill the back area, offering all types of gourmet food.

1960 Chevy

1966 Camaro RS


Mustang G.T. 350 Fastback


1959 Peerless

















This is just a portion of the photos taken, there are many more. Visit the Night #9 section of the Ocean Park Classic Car Night Gallery to see more.

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 blog posts:
Night #1
Night #2
Night #3
Night #4
Night #6
Night #7
Night #8
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

SUP: Andrew Prowd

Standup Paddleboarding with Andrew Prowd from Queensland, Australia.

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.

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