Bart Jones! Must’ve been when he was working at FTC. I remember Bart from earlier San Rafael days. My buddy owned Peking Lo restaurant in Montecito Plaza and Bart worked with Eric Kirkwood at Triple S skate shop in the Plaza. They were skating on Poor Boy with Christian then. Christian was just a little little kid. I also was at skate camp with Bart. Really rad guy.
I started hanging out around Pier 7 at the age of 12. My first trip to the city, on the 80 bus, the groms and I from my hometown, met Karl. This was the Profile days. Karl threw a Profile deck into the bay off the Pier and the oldest kid in our group jumped in in his boxers and got it. I remember Brad at Pier 7 vividly, he was the least friendly guy of all the guys in the windowsill click. He was always smoking and drinking and acting tough, and he definitely never ever gave any friendly gestures to any of the groms that hung out and skated there just to see him and his friends skate. He seems nice now in this interview, but it’s not hard to see why a lot of his relationships in the industry didn’t workout: always a tough guy, stealing boxes of boards, etc. Karl on the other hand loved the kids and was super nice. One day I bought that last Watson deck at FTC and was hanging out at the shop with Joey and Andy, when. Karl called to have his last board put aside. Andy told him it was too late. Karl said put the kid on the phone. He then invited me to the Pier to skate that afternoon and took me under his wing for the day. I think I told him about tossing the Profile deck into the Bay years before and he laughed and recalled that day. I remember Ben was nice too and would sell me his old chocolate boards. I also recall meeting Stevie on his first trip to SF, and giving him a cigarette. I think I was 12 at the time and I didn’t realize he was homeless. Pat used to want my french fries that I brought over from Carl Jr’s and he’d stuff them all into his mouth and bunch them into a ball like they were chewing tobacco. I didn’t realize that he was that hungry, but he said he had to save them that way. I was just a little kid, took note, and made sure to bring him fries. I remember he tried to steal my gold necklace one day too which was pretty messed up of him, stealing from a little kid. But those were the days for sure. I spent every weekend skating the city from 94-98. A lot of skating was happening there then.
Bart Jones! Must’ve been when he was working at FTC. I remember Bart from earlier San Rafael days. My buddy owned Peking Lo restaurant in Montecito Plaza and Bart worked with Eric Kirkwood at Triple S skate shop in the Plaza. They were skating on Poor Boy with Christian then. Christian was just a little little kid. I also was at skate camp with Bart. Really rad guy.
I started hanging out around Pier 7 at the age of 12. My first trip to the city, on the 80 bus, the groms and I from my hometown, met Karl. This was the Profile days. Karl threw a Profile deck into the bay off the Pier and the oldest kid in our group jumped in in his boxers and got it.
I remember Brad at Pier 7 vividly, he was the least friendly guy of all the guys in the windowsill click. He was always smoking and drinking and acting tough, and he definitely never ever gave any friendly gestures to any of the groms that hung out and skated there just to see him and his friends skate. He seems nice now in this interview, but it’s not hard to see why a lot of his relationships in the industry didn’t workout: always a tough guy, stealing boxes of boards, etc.
Karl on the other hand loved the kids and was super nice. One day I bought that last Watson deck at FTC and was hanging out at the shop with Joey and Andy, when. Karl called to have his last board put aside. Andy told him it was too late. Karl said put the kid on the phone. He then invited me to the Pier to skate that afternoon and took me under his wing for the day. I think I told him about tossing the Profile deck into the Bay years before and he laughed and recalled that day.
I remember Ben was nice too and would sell me his old chocolate boards. I also recall meeting Stevie on his first trip to SF, and giving him a cigarette. I think I was 12 at the time and I didn’t realize he was homeless. Pat used to want my french fries that I brought over from Carl Jr’s and he’d stuff them all into his mouth and bunch them into a ball like they were chewing tobacco. I didn’t realize that he was that hungry, but he said he had to save them that way. I was just a little kid, took note, and made sure to bring him fries. I remember he tried to steal my gold necklace one day too which was pretty messed up of him, stealing from a little kid.
But those were the days for sure. I spent every weekend skating the city from 94-98. A lot of skating was happening there then.
Great times!! Pleasure to have met you too Brad 👊🏼
this is the best series ever
Used to skate with this guy in St. Louis when we were kids. He was the best around back then
Love these videos dude, keep up the good work!
I love how the skateboarding industry had more RICs in it than the rap industry ever did.
Bobshirt should do a diving expedition behind Pier 7 and get Smurf's waterlogged boards.
Elissa Steamer would be sick to have on here. Jeremy Wray too for sure.
Sick video keep it up
"Old dude!" yeah, I feel you.
Get out soon Colvin
smooth smurf
that where the party at song has to be one of the worst song picks in skate video history