Another for the “UnKnown Skater” File
Tom Groholski’s Contest day
Photo Dietz Bruthas
Bernie wins the Prize!! It is Doug Mayer from PA…and we spy your yellow helmet…Rodney (Smith)!
Here is a tip of the hat to another “Unknown Skater” Invert on the extension…no easy feet considering Tom’s ramp was layered in ice. Anyone know who he or anyone on deck is? We see you Murph(Jim) with your pink zorlac board! What do you think the high bid on ebay would be for that Silver “Hawk” the lad in the red helmet is sporting? Lad? He is probably 40+ now…
June 30, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Doug mayer from PA.
June 30, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Maaaaan that was fast Bern!
June 30, 2009 at 9:50 pm
I can smell those pads from here…
June 30, 2009 at 11:42 pm
the crazy thing is Tom used to do rock to fakies on that little tiny slice of ramp to the right of the extension and I believe ollie up to fs grinds.
July 1, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Jon Airs…I think. I have tons of pics from that contest, I gotta get more scanned. A group of guys were there from PA; Dan Brown, Jon Airs and a few more. Jon skated goofy, and he was all over that extension. I will get the pics scanned and get some more posted.
July 1, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Oh man, I just read up above, it was Doug Mayer, I knew it was one of the PA guys…I suck!
July 1, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I love the pink zorlac board someone has on deck!
July 1, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Someone? that would be the MURPH!
July 1, 2009 at 5:23 pm
the kid with the hawk board was “Steve” from the blue ramp/ jeff Jones area. We called him “mute boy” because he didn’t talk much and I think he did a bunch of mute airs. I think he skated a pro contest in ‘90 at Del Mar that I was in. Radioactive Ray is sitting on the extension wearing glasses. But who’s the guy next to him? Also note the “crossed skateboards” spray painted on the extension. That was from Tom and Chuck’s Skate Edge zine.
July 1, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Jeff Jones was at that contest; I’ve got a beautiful pic of Tommy G doing one of his effortless nose grab backside airs up the extension, with Murph looking on with one of those stiff lip gnarled expressions as Jeff Jones stands there talking him to death, dressed in his red and yellow Variflex Team costume featuring super sexy short shorts…classic
July 2, 2009 at 4:20 pm
I have pic of him in that outfit on my hard drive. Have fun at the Museum Jay!! I hear its not as cold skating inside the Smithsonian as it was in The Barn.
July 7, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Yeah Steve Casper is his full name….when he got comfortable he never stopped talking….or he’d have a big phat wod of chew in the lip causing him to speak funny. We’d crack jokes on him and he’d say ud’up!
The black dude with the eye sore Flo. yellow pro-tec is my whack ass.
July 7, 2009 at 7:26 pm
No way, that’s you up there Rodney? I’ll have to go get those pics and upload a few, I took like 4 rolls of film that day…