Every day with this person is cause for celebration but today is a little extra… Happy birthday to the best life partner and my favorite human. How lucky I am to navigate through the rest of this whirlwind with you! ♥️
🌲Ycamp Dubs😎
Fun doubles with surprise camper @strutang
Diggin’ the new bowled out micro corner with tall can coping! Thanks to @spank.etc & diy crete crew for the welcome addition! @yskatecamp rules! @blockhead_skateboards #diy #doubles #dubs #sequoialake #ycamp #fun
Bad customer service and their children’s love for skateboarding brought them into this world 36 years ago and now we celebrate their retirement and departure from it. This Sunday in Santa Cruz we’ll be skating, eating and showing some love for my parents Bill and Paula, who opened Skate Works in 1988 and have weathered all the ups and downs of retail combined with that of the skate industry ever since. Jason (@strubacca ) has been right there with them the entire time so the complete passing of the torch should be about as seamless as it gets… aside from the absence of silver hair and a gap tooth smile greeting you from behind the counter.
Come be a part of the festivities this Sunday from 2-6 at @skateworkssantacruz
•It’s hard to express the amount of appreciation I have for what you did for us. I still have such a vivid memory of the first box of product arriving to our house (cause we didn’t even have the keys to the store yet)… all the silkscreen smells while organizing everything. Most likely toxic but so damn nostalgic!! I couldn’t believe it was really happening! Thank you for being the best parents a kid and now adult kid could ever ask for♥️♥️!!
Also, thanks to the skate shop employee who pissed my mom off and made us put everything down and leave the store. You set the spark for all of this! I won’t say the shop name but the slogan ended with… “or go home!”…@skateworkssantacruz@pmssmp@skateworks@strubacca 🎉🍻
Thanks for the photo Michael Ballard📸!
2000
From a Skateboarder Mag and Sole Tech (Emerica,és,Etnies) article that got the name, “The Pit”. It was sketchy as hell but also a hell of a time!
•Third swipe was @jaimeowens footage of it and from when he first came to CA I believe.