George Draguns Indy Air at Woodward PA 1991

Team Steam’s George Draguns Indy air at Woodward 1991

Photo Geoff Graham

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Rob Randolph, Encinitas, CA June 2006

Team Steam rider Rob Randolph checking in…and still killing it!

Frontside air, California, June 2006
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George Draguns Tuck Knee Invert 1988 State College PA

George Draguns Tuck Knee Invery State College PA 1988

Photo Steve Rosenberg

Team Steam’s George Draguns is still ripping today. More vinatage and modern photos of George to come, including a recent skate session with Tag and Rob Randolph.

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Rocky Vertone eggplant Slug Ramp PA circa 1986 Winter session

Rocky Vertone eggplant dead of winter Slug Ramp PA circa 1986  

photo Ben Cornish

No one would let us snowboard on there ski slopes yet. Soon Alpine Mountain would be one of the first but until then when it snowed it was either ride The Barn or grab a shovel.

 Maaan it would be cold at first then you would heat up start sweating and if you didnt keep skating you would freeze…and the ramp was extra hard when you slammed too.  

Rocky Team Steam’s SBC captain did big stretchy eggplants and killer Indy airs too boot!

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Who’s on Deck?…84 Tom Groholski’s ramp New Jersey

Bernie O’Dowd slob air at Tom Groholski’s ramp New Jersey 1984

Vallely used to skate Tom’s ramp. He was just some quiet kid we didn’t talk
to. I’m wearing a green Cooper hockey helmet that I bought at a skatepark in
the 70’s. Mertz told me years later that they all referred to me as “Pickel
Head”.

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Bernie sent me this email and I have been laughing for days. It has inspired our newest category…Who’s on deck? (more to come)

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TEAM STEAM CARD: DAN TAG 1987

Dan Tag Slug Ramp in the Snow 1987

I created a series (14 or 15 in all)  of Team Steam Trading cards (they are actually stickers) in our High Schools graphic arts department in 1987.

They are as big as a baseball card and almost every member at the time had one, including the Barn itself and The Raging Lamos.

Special thanks goes to Mr. Abella our Graphics teacher for letting me hog the printing press all the time and floating us copious amounts of sticker paper. Mr Abella was the most skate friendly adult the world had seen at the time.

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Jimmy Kane frontside wheeler at The McDowall’s ramp 1987

Jimmy Kane 1987 The McDowall’s ramp New Jersey

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Team Steam Power crew member Jimmy Kane (Barn Ramp proprietor) doin his thing at The McDowalls. I always dug this photo and couldnt wait to put it up.

The McDowall Ramp:

Steve and Kevin McDowall both Watchung Hills Regional High School grads (this NJ high school produced so many skaters they should have made a vocational course in ramp construction and skating) built a monster ramp in there back yard. She was wide and tall just the way we liked em. It was a huge leap in construction from the 5 foot tall quarter pipe in there drive way.

We had alot of great sessions here with the locals, Jimmy Kane and the NJ Team Steam contingency.

Alot more photos of Jimmy Kane and The McDowall’s ramp coming soon.

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The Captain John Ballon in Power Edge Magazine 1990

Team Steam’s Captain John Ballon in Power Edge Magazine. 1990

John Ballon is my favorite skater to see on a ramp it’s like watching a train do ballet.

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Tom skating his backyard ramp…and talkin bout the Barn.

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