Vintage Deck Library

nervous ned · 03-14-2007, 06:47 AM

Last year, my friend Adam Roe (formerly flatland freestyle skater in the 1980's sponsored by the Swatch team) started building a collection of skateboards documenting the roots / history of skateboarding. The walls of his film production office and home are now covered with old vintage decks. My favorite is the plank of wood with rusty nails holding the trucks; I want one just like it.

longboardharry1 · 03-14-2007, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by nervous ned

Last year, my friend Adam Roe (formerly flatland freestyle skater in the 1980's sponsored by the Swatch team) started building a collection of skateboards documenting the roots / history of skateboarding. The walls of his film production office and home are now covered with old vintage decks. My favorite is the plank of wood with rusty nails holding the trucks; I want one just like it.

those boards are old, my brother has two old school boards just like that and every time you ride it or turn re stuff come of the wheel.

nervous ned · 03-14-2007, 07:04 AM

yeah, vintage decks are not meant for riding.
reference Scooter's melted wheels during the Farm Vintage Classic race:

Mister Surly · 03-14-2007, 07:07 AM

nice! i'd love to check that out. thanks for sharing.

Brewce at Skatopia has one of the biggest collections. i think
it's over 1800 boards by now. i think i read that number correctly.

here's a link:
http://www.skatopiathemovie.com/html...e/museum.html#

nervous ned · 03-14-2007, 07:25 AM

Adam says he contantly bids against 3 other guys in auctions that have similar collections. Brewce is probably one of them.

dcphotos · 03-14-2007, 07:33 AM

Great post!

dwf137 · 03-14-2007, 08:22 AM

amazing.

i used to have an old ass board from when my uncle was young, but it got sold in a garage sale when I was like 7.

davekeane_36 · 03-14-2007, 01:01 PM

That's so funny.....I was just talking to one of my coworkers about a 'Big Red' skateboard that one of my friends had when I started skating 20years ago. I tried to find an image on the web but couldn't! Good stuff! Thanks Ned!

baden69 · 03-14-2007, 01:16 PM

those are some pretty sick boards that chunk of wood was pretty funny, and longboardharry why would you quote every single picture!?!? especially when you had the first comment i mean i dont think anyone is going to get confused about who you commented!! im not havin a go at you its just i went over my limit yesterday and it takes AGES to load anything and it doesnt help when there is 2 sets of the same picture. but i realy like some of those decks

CRASS · 03-14-2007, 04:56 PM

i always get a kick outta the old crate boards/scooters

nervous ned · 03-14-2007, 05:12 PM

yeah i'm thinking about building a crate scooter for our Blue Ridge session and talking Longbord1 into bombing a hill on it. that would be soooo sweet.