Powell Peralta 80s style T-shirts re-issues on sale at Urban Outfitters!

[j]

I still have my first copy of Thrasher from February 1989 somewhere. I tossed all the other ones out. Wish I had kept one of the old CCS catalogs though.

 

[Lysol]

i still buy lots of old thrashers when they turn up on ebay. not only is it great reliving those days but i cop so much stuff for random graphic projects.

fyi, got my mcgill shirt yesterday. it's so awesome. i was expecting it to fit all weird and just be like a walk the dog, go to the store, etc. t-shirt but it's exceptionally well fitting. fits like a medium from the 80's, better than AA. in fact if i knew where to buy blanks of whatever they're printed on, i would.

 

[BrettChaotix]

My first deck was a pearl white McGill skull & snake. /QUOTE]

I've got that very same deck hanging on my wall
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../untitled2.jpg

 

[chronoaug]

I wouldn't mind getting blanks too. As lame as most of urban outfitters "vintage" tshirts are, they usually fit really well since they don't make them themselves.

 

[someoneNew]

Originally Posted by turnerxce

Favorite skater: the one, the only, the immortal... Rodney. Mullen.
Yeah but did you like him in the 80s?? I had around 45 skateboarding friends in the 80s and only 1 was into freestyle. Of course hindsight is 20/20 and starting in the 90s we all saw that Mullen was the Jimi Hendrix of skateboarding. But in the 80s his following was tiny compared to the typical pro street skater who used a "normal" shaped deck of the time. Anyway, I got my UO shirts in too, they are also mediums and are pretty fitted. Like some of the detailing around the seams to make it different then a typical cotton tshirt. Still looking to grab a RIPPER though...

 

[poly800rock]

holy ****, on the topic of mcgill.....curious if this is going so high because of the fact it's powell or if people are that into mcgill. I don't even remember him as a skater, I remember loving the deck graphic though. I feel like everyone was outshined by hawk and hosoi....and to a lesser extent, cab http://cgi.ebay.com/POWELL-PERALTA-M...QQcmdZViewItem

 

[someoneNew]

Close to every vert skater was outshined by Hawk, I agree, although I thought Cab outshined Hosoi more often than not.

 

[poly800rock]

Originally Posted by someoneNew

Close to every vert skater was outshined by Hawk, I agree, although I thought Cab outshined Hosoi more often than not.

i think cab obviously had the longevity, but I always remember hosoi from the ******* big air comps he used to do. Hawk and Cab were probably more technical skaters, especially Cab, but for Hosoi for me was king of the vert. You should check out that new Hosoi movie, really brought me back to when i was a wee kid.

 

[Lysol]

mcgill was sick in his own right. in the 80's tony was like zack morris, hosoi was ac slater and cab was screech. i love cab. if i ever start posting pictures on here, i'll post the cab dragon that i have tattooed huge on my ribs. i've always love steve more for being the epitome of skateboarding... the fun loving, chill dude that skates for fun and everything else is bonus... than his talent. natas and the gonz will always be my favorite skaters for their talent though. at my wedding, my best man had the gonz leave me a voice mail congratulating me. best present ever.

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

Originally Posted by someoneNew

I had around 45 skateboarding friends in the 80s and only 1 was into freestyle. Of course hindsight is 20/20 and starting in the 90s we all saw that Mullen was the Jimi Hendrix of skateboarding. But in the 80s his following was tiny compared to the typical pro street skater who used a "normal" shaped deck of the time.
per welinder is the only other freestyle skater i can name, actually. but it seemed that back in the day, if you were into freestyle skating, you were in the velvet blazer camp. those technical tricks really influenced street skating, though; thanks to rodney mullen, i guess. anyway, the per welinder deck was sick:

 

[BrettChaotix]

Originally Posted by poly800rock

holy ****, on the topic of mcgill.....curious if this is going so high because of the fact it's powell or if people are that into mcgill.
http://cgi.ebay.com/POWELL-PERALTA-M...QQcmdZViewItem

Dude, that's a 1984 almost mint deck in BLUE!!! Not even any grip tape!! Do you know how impossible it is to find a deck like that for sale these days?? There's no way that reserve price is less than $1000. super rare!

 

[jet]

**** that Welinder graphic is ridiculous.

 

[turnerxce]

Originally Posted by BrettChaotix

Dude, that's a 1984 almost mint deck in BLUE!!! Not even any grip tape!! Do you know how impossible it is to find a deck like that for sale these days?? There's no way that reserve price is less than $1000. super rare!

And that is the McGill I had as my first board, the pig nose in white pearlcoat, not the later street model. Damn that thing is huge. I later had a Welinder freestyle deck, not the street model posted above, it just had the skull without all the other graphics around it. And yeah, I was a Mullen fan back in the 80s, even though my uncoordinated ass could barely ride street, much less freestyle.

To get back to clothing, my Powell Dragon shirt came today from UO. Man, it's nice... just wish I had gotten in soon enough to get a McGill one.

 

[dizzhizz]

You can just get a re-issue from the following as well:

http://www.powell-peralta.com/products/sg.html

 

[Max]

By the way, freestyle skating made a comeback. They just call it street skating now.