After working full-time (yes, the skateboard company is a side-gig) for Arizona State University 19 years in west Phoenix, I transferred to the Tempe campus.…
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Dead Spots & The Forgotten is a series dedicated to old skate spots around Arizona. Most of the spots are no longer skate-able or even…
The AZPX VHS (Very High Skaters) Series is our way of presenting our distant skateboarding past with footage and stories lifted from VHS tapes that…
by Colin Choy “These boys was gleaming the tube,” said one officer to another as we stood in aggravated silence. A hundred bucks and six…
Background: “In 1956, Penn-Mor Manufacturing Corporation, a subsidiary of Walter W. Moyer Company, Inc., of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, announced that it would open a factory in…
Here is a glimpse back in time that perfectly captures the pool skating culture from 17 years ago in 1999, before social media at the…
The Tempe Pipes were built in 1990 near some new freeways being built on the border of Tempe and Mesa AZ. The only access was…
This series will be dedicated to old skate spots around Arizona. Most of the places I will be talking about are no longer skate-able. I…
This series will be dedicated to old Dead Spots & The Forgotten skate spots around Arizona. Most of the places I will be talking about…