Check out YOUNG Tony Hawk 🛹

FLASHBACK FRIDAY: You might see a familiar face from this 1987 story released from the WMAR Vault. A young ‪@TonyHawk‬ was interviewed by Jamie Costello during an event in White Marsh 🛹
#flashback #skateboarding #skateboard #shortvideo #shorts #tonyhawk

[@Camm85]

The 80s was so colorful

[@lyndy101]

90s too with the pastel colors

[@MarioCavett]

You notice that huh.

[@moonlitegram]

@@lyndy101 nah, the 90s pretty quickly became all about muted tones etc. I wouldn't have been caught dead wearing anything i wore in the 80s for most of the 90s. Once grunge hit culture shifted pretty quickly towards moving away from the bombastic colorful vibes of the 80s.

[@DemonicDung]

you do realize the camera lense was different???

[@DemonicDung]

jesus christ when was the last time you saw something besides pixels?@@lyndy101

[@TinnCup]

Shop owner was absolutely blasted 😂

[@misanthrope5063]

Baked*

[@marsbase3729]

dude totally! 😝

[@marsbase3729]

​@misanthrope5063 "blasted" is same as "stoned" or "baked" in some places

[@Krawberry]

@@misanthrope5063there’s a lot of different terms for it

[@0_____CJ-CJ______0]

@@KrawberryFacts hella slang for weed shits prolly infinite

[@billmurray4206]

“No working and no responsibilities, wearing shorts and t shirts all the time” 😂

[@trentbateman]

Or a modern day hybrid wfh worker. Lucky if many of us even have pants on for the zoom calls

[@TheBillMurrray]

Dreams can come true!

[@JamesCraigWhoop]

Wonder why so many homeless now

[@Joeri20cm]

Didn't know I was living in the 80s too!

[@bidibum]

@@trentbatemannot even close man, not even close

[@somerandom7672]

Tony 37 years ago when he was a slightly younger teenager.

[@kjmartin815]

his voice is literally the exact same

[@courierrs]

​@@kjmartin815it sounds like he's tiny tony hawk

[@mrpowers4667]

What’s crazy to me is Tony still sounds almost exactly the same

[@karlepaul6632]

Naw...his voice was waaaaay higher

[@Flappy_OW]

I know it’s a different time because this man said $1.50

[@FreestyleBoon]

It’s $150 if a skate board in 60s and 70s was like $20 then it wouldn’t drop to $1.50

[@helloproxy]

​@@FreestyleBoonthe news reporter in the video said $1.50

[@FreestyleBoon]

@@helloproxy dollar fifty is slang for $150 boards wouldn’t drop from $20 in the 60s to $1.50 in the 80s

[@davion4777]

Did you really think you could buy a board for ONE dollar and fifty? Come on now, even if they were different times, that’s literally impossible. He meant 150.

[@FrackaLacka]

Yeah $1.50 if skating existed in maybe in like 1942 lmao

[@thegoon3088]

100k in 87 for a teenager is wild

[@LostTemplate]

W Tony

[@dontworry1328]

and 100k for a teen today isn't ?

[@thegoon3088]

@dontworry1328 do you always put words in people's mouth you fukn puss e?

[@adamwatson5292]

​@@dontworry1328Did he say that ?

[@mr.hellraisaa]

comparing the price to everything that’s on the market at this time since then… no, 100k is not the same, and yes it depends how wisely they use it, 100%, 80%, 50%, or 0%, it’s up to them how they spend the 100k today, you can use it 100% wisely and still end up broke, or use it 100% wisely and make another 100k (legally saying) but yeah, in the end, 100k today wont buy as nearly the same shi it could 40 years ago.

[@Shnecko]

Jeez, imagine making 6 figures in the 80s as a teenager for skateboarding. That'd be close to 400 grand today.

[@trentbateman]

Spot on…around 4x with inflation and technology improvements adding to costs

[@mattc9875]

Possibly more

[@user-yz5mn2go2d]

That dude talking to the news reporter at the end basically incorporated every major Californian stereotype into his brief moment speaking on the mic. 😂

[@shaunpiotrowski3185]

Or he incorporated the retrospective of the republican on the youth of a generation that didn't match with reality. Only time will tell. Btw Tony Hawk is the reason skateboarding is in the Olympics. Appreciate your national treasure. Nobody in the world has done more than him for the sport

[@shaunpiotrowski3185]

He is literally a Renaissance man in the world of skateboarding

[@shaunpiotrowski3185]

You literally know nothing if you hold that opinion about that scene at the time

[@user-yz5mn2go2d]

@@shaunpiotrowski3185 Did you really feel the need to make 3 separate posts refuting my comment which was solely my OPINION and meant to be silly and poke fun at the guy from the end? You sound like a blast a parties. Maybe you need to stop taking yourself so seriously, as no one was bashing Tony Hawk. I, myself, am a skateboarding fan and also respect Tony. But you just demonstrated one of the most anti-skateboarding and anti-free spirited attitudes I've ever seen, and Tony Hawk himself would probably spit at your feet if he saw you in person.

[@tubbluv]

@@user-yz5mn2go2dbro the store clerk geeked me up too 😂 hes got the california dreamin sparkle in his eye saying all that

[@johngibbons3138]

So, sooo cool. Major respect for what he created. The poster child for making skateboarding accessible

[@emperomassinencambio...9941]

80's kids? I'm a 34 year old dude living in 2024 and I am 100% interested in the stuff he mentioned. 😅

[@mikeolson3939]

Word lol

[@thesleepingpusheen2650]

And 37 years later Tony still sounds about the same 😂

[@KelpPardue]

$1.50 for a deck in 1987?? 😮

[@crazyralph6386]

That’s what a skater got paid if his deck was sold. A fully complete board was over US$100 back in the mid 80’s, which was quite a lot. At his peak, Tony Hawk was making over $20K per month on board royalties from Powell.

[@benyseus6325]

A buck fifty is slang for 150$ bruh

[@Elitaracy]

⁠@@benyseus6325he said “a dollar fifty” I know what you mean tho

[@benyseus6325]

@@Elitaracy mate a dollar fifty is slang for 150$. Do ppl honestly believe a board costs 1.50$?? Use some common sense cmon

[@Elitaracy]

@@benyseus6325 I literally agreed with u…..

[@hermitally419]

The guy at the end made the most important statement.

[@MrsPottz420]

The price of boards went up but the options in design went down 😂😂😂😂 it was like a million boards on that wall 😂😂

[@user-dq6pm6sg8z]

$1.50 in 1987 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $4.06 today!!? Dude, the purchasing power of the dollar went waay down!

[@MrsPottz420]

@@user-dq6pm6sg8z those same boards start at 50 dollars now

[@wolfpackwarriors]

My mom drove from Indina to Mexico on $5 of gas in the early nineties

[@chexnfx7161]

@@wolfpackwarriorshaha yeah right.

[@chimrichalds8985]

It's 150

[@Jblizzybaby]

The mcsqueeb haircut

[@finnmcginn9931]

I had it. I was 12

[@720erik2]

That was a pretty fucking high Ollie air Tony pulled off on that 80ib board

[@idhatemet00]

“Ollie air” lol

[@720erik2]

@@idhatemet00 that’s what it was called in the 80s fella when done off a launch ramp

[@worminator15]

But he did a halfcab didn’t he? So it’s a halfcab air back in the 80s?😅

[@97HawksFly]

We need to bring that first trick back. That was dope!

[@leonhosie3053]

What an 80's hairstyle. I can't believe how brilliant he was!

[@kentang1528]

Tony hawk the GOAT .

[@NotesFromTheOwlBox]

This kid obviously has no future

[@SadTown99]

😂😂😂😂

[@martinkuliza]

I mean, Look at that haircut... He'll amount to nothing

[@vim2286]

And he looks like a bad influence

[@melanchomusic1773]

ikr, should've focus on school, but instead he nonsensely fooling around with that thing called skateboard

[@wesleyedwards1634]

Dang Hooligan….wont amount to anything

[@I_SP0K3N_I]

Wow so beautiful to see the past

[@SpiritOfTheWest1]

That first trick is absolutely nuts😳😳

[@meneks6739]

Yo that first trick was actually sick asf

[@MalcolmTexxx]

Right?! Should be in THPS

[@PhaseSkater]

whats the name of it

[@mitchdavis9155]

He was also in an 80s movie with Christian Slater called "gleaming the cube" around the same time

[@moonlitegram]

Just rewatched that movie for the first time in years and years on Amazon the other month. I forgot it also had a performance from the Red Hot Chili Peppers in it too, back when they were really heavy on the funk sound.

[@mitchdavis9155]

@@moonlitegram I bought it off of eBay, I loved it so much when I was younger when I got into his games

[@chrisb15679]

He was in "Thrashin" as well.

[@sk82rok]

Rodney Mullen was also in gleaming the cube!

[@joshreinhart6644]

What a CLASSIC 80's movie for skateboarding. The classic 1980's movie for BMX is "Rad". The classic surf flick in that era is "Northshore"

[@mathewspider-maneigen4826]

This was the hair jason Ellis was talking about when he would do a trick then whip his hair ..😂😂

[@enrico-pucci8984]

Dude everything used to be so colourful and vibrant

[@deathxcountry]

whoever skated just before hawk was sick!

[@starfox1984]

Was about to say. That dude was probably a skater's skater

[@china_is_asshole]

Like cancer??.. he didn't seem sick at all.🧐

[@deathxcountry]

u r butthole guy@@china_is_asshole

[@wedothis1563]

@@china_is_asshole”sick” is slang for awesome

[@squeakyelbows]

@@china_is_asshole No that's not what he meant at all. He probably just got a cold or something.

[@Hernandez4lf369]

Boney Hawk is a legend 🤘

[@YourMomPussStink]

Yes and for some reason he looks old in the eyes here and don’t hit me with the he probably doesn’t sleep bs he just has bad facial genes especially in the eyes 😂. He still the GOAT 🐐

[@davidwebber5953]

First and foremost the 80s rocked

[@jawkojawko7094]

that shop owner interview was fucking epic

[@shanechannel7066]

That impressive because turning skateboarding into lucrative career was extremely hard back then. Most adults didn't see skateboarding as a serious sport like boxing or football. Skateboarding was more of an underground sport for the younger crowd.

[@zukodude487987]

I wish i could travel and visit 80s california.

[@bchillbong-uf2io]

That surfer dude in yellow is a cool dude.

[@misguidedangel6550]

I used to love Tony Hawks hair back then

[@RaidersSuk4Life]

No working and no responsibilities hasn’t changed 😂

[@crazyralph6386]

Except the bikini clad chicks now have d*cks 😂

[@mattc9875]

Only that it applies to people well over that age nowadays 😂

[@larrybecker9565]

That kid doing the first trick of this video that was insane awesome 👍

[@craigmactak1839]

Per Welinder. He and Tony created Birdhouse Skateboards in the early 90s.

[@LaKwahsLament]

I was so fortunate to have come into this world in 87’ and be a kid in the 90’s

[@lyrikalkilla433]

March, ‘87 baby!!

[@joshnacua8998]

November 87 here

[@jedimindtrix2142]

Sep 6th, 87 right here 🎉

[@ConstantinFlattermann]

September here ❤❤❤😂

[@Ant-813]

This my friends is when America was great!🇺🇸

[@jorge10928]

$100k in 1987 is about $270k in 2024.

[@Hoctorde12]

Young Tony is so focused and composed. I skated cause of this guy. God bless the birdman

[@Dang3rMouSe]

Lol, I wish it was only $1.50. Nah, back then a pro board alone would run you somewhere between $100 to $140. He was right about the bikini babes though🤙

[@larrybecker9565]

It was awesome seeing all those old school skateboard decks

[@AretiNamtzu-mi1qf]

God has blessed you young man 🙏. Now your the greatest of all time!

[@cslewisster]

Tony worked hard to the GOAT.

[@crazyralph6386]

He was the greatest by the late 80’s

[@shanksmcnasty6650]

In terms of doing the most for the sport worldwide and bringing it to the mainstream - yes But we all know Rodney is the true goat

[@Ben20188]

Still the coolest man alive

[@tcdamack4009]

$1.50 for a board, yeah our government has fucked us the last 50 years

[@martinkuliza]

it's not $1.50 that's rubbish I REMEMBER AND RECALL 1987 My first board was a ROAD WARRIOR From BigW it was $20 so there is NO WAY !!! that a Santa Cruz or Powell Peralta was 1.50 I later had a Power Peralta and my mate had a Santa Cruz I bought JUST THE BOARD $150 then after you get Trucks, Rail guards, Soft compound street wheels I think i paid around $200 approx for the completed board (that i had to build) My mate paid like $250 all up THERE IS NO WAY ANY BOARD in 1987 was $1.50 NOT A HOPE even back in the 70s they were like $5 i reckon $1.5 is code for $150 it was possible to buy a board for $15 but not for $1.50 NOT A CHANCE Back in the day $2 got you a bag or Marbles, think about that A Container of slime was $10approx A BMX bike was like $80 hence a standard skateboard complete was like $20 or $30 but if you went with top brands like Santa Cruze or Peralta, No... You're above $130 EASY ! Same if you got a BMX but then you want Handlebar pads and bark busters and tuffs etc and better brakes Your bike is gonna go from $80 to around $250 Hence why we didn't all have a Redline or Mongoose like you see in BMX Bandits and we didn't all have Boards like you see in Gleaming the Cube that was only in you were considered RICH at the time... or... IF YOU MOWED LIKE A MILLION LAWNS FOR POCKET MONEY

[@DarthEyesDragon]

You just found out?

[@CountryKyle007]

$150

[@markoconnor4110]

I remember buying a hosoi just the deck around that year and over 50 bucks

[@anthonyv6962]

You can't be so slow as to think they really cost $1.50 and not that he intended to say a buck fifty.

[@waavyfm]

That 1st trick was insane 😮🎉

[@E.T.FoneHome-lz4ce]

Right?!! That was way cooler than tonys 180

[@miguelmatallanes5953]

The Bird man!!!😂 🤟

[@TOMANDKATIE]

Dude the shop owner at the end of the video was so fucking mellow and down to earth. It was awesome.

[@christmasdespacito2505]

the amount of different colored, bright shirts and clothing is so awesome now its all black and white and red and blue

[@ConstantinFlattermann]

Beige and brown is IN too now….can’t forget beige my guy 😂❤

[@redfordreddington8834]

It's the same colors

[@jakebarkerr4519]

Tony hawk is the fucking man

[@davidantone4593]

Dudeeee a 1.50 for a board!!!!????? Wtfffff

[@Ghostsrt392]

Bro ant no one gonna talk about how 100k was a lot back then in a year?

[@mamaharumi]

I mean, it still is.

[@zukodude487987]

​​@@mamaharumialmoat 40 years later its not the same. I calculated that Tony hawks 100k today would have been 270k, a 2.7x increase is a lot. That money i could throw in the stock market and live off passive income.

[@AlexMR]

Someone once said they never saw tony hawk push and i finally have seen it 😂

[@kingmatt9974]

Dude made California sound like the American dream ❤❤

[@HeadNtheClouds]

This is still my life! 40 years later, only I ride rollerblades more now

[@FreestyleBoon]

Traitor lol

[@HeadNtheClouds]

@@FreestyleBoon I’m a 58 year old skater, so when I fall, I break bones, sooo, skating on blades is safer,somewhat & I like the amount of ground I can cover & all the people I talk to all over the place, soooo…. Yeah…

[@ConstantinFlattermann]

@@HeadNtheCloudsdo your thing, love it. Maybe i try to start again too

[@elgenfranord1651]

So gay

[@HeadNtheClouds]

@@elgenfranord1651 I’m a woman

[@Cr16604]

I was at this. It was in the parking lot of white marsh wall where Rech the Beach was. Considering how popular the Bones Brigade was at the time, it wasn’t much of a demo. It was a street style setup. Just a few jump ramps and curb blocks. No vert ramp. Just a small quarter pipe. Reach the Beach was the biggest skate shop in the area, aside from Island Dreams. They had a better skate park on the tennis/basketball court behind a old elementary school. And it was free. Reach the beach could have built a better demo for the bones brigade. I still have a white and pink 1987 Tony Hawk Deck still in the shrink wrap and the white rib bones that were meant for it. I got it for Xmas but wasn’t to crazy about the pink. I still had a fairly new lance mountain board and when I realized it was the board Tony uses in Animal Chin I hung it on my bead room wall. I wanted to make it just like his was in the video. Then Bonite came out, which sucked, then all of a sudden vert skating became uncool and all the ramps that were around got torn down or left to rot. Street skating really wasn’t my thing so I lost interest and never used the Hawk deck. It’s probably worth money now. I’d rather just keep it though. I’ve never seen them reissue that deck.

[@carpo719]

Funny timing as I'm watching a Bones Brigade documentary right now. I grew up as a skater in the 80s and let me just say it was the time of my life

[@OysterWard]

i love his hair

[@finnmcginn9931]

Tony hitting that launch ramp switch in 87 is pretty sweet.

[@shinobaywind]

Man the 900 birdman beginnings

[@alwayslate1336]

Nah this isn’t Tony Hawk, this is that kid a robot comes back in time to terminate and then comes back again to save.

[@skylerthomas553]

All these people have sum good/ crazy story’s ✌️

[@Vice_Admiral_Garp]

1.50 😢 everyone puts too much faith in corrupt bankers and lobbyists

[@andyburian1743]

"...a dollar fifty..." **spit take** **heart attack**

[@TheRealCashIconic]

A dollar gifted for a freaking deck is crazy

[@RileyRad333]

" 1.50 for one of these boards " 😢

[@mattrobson113]

Id like the take on California now

[@darrenabel6795]

This kid is going to go places I don't know I just have that feeling 😉😂😁.

[@jtg_edc]

"Reach for the Beach" was an awesome store.

[@brandonbaty2291]

For everyone confused in the comments: The reporter is a nincompoop and read his report wrong. Complete decks were $150 (yes, even back then. Google CCS catalog 1987). NO the reporter wasn’t “using slang”. Everyone knows “a buck fifty” is slang for $150. But that is not what the reporter said. He said “a dollar fifty” and either mispoke, or misread his copy.

[@Ozzmon]

Dude's hair looks like the quicksilver logo

[@hatred9427]

I like how young Tony Hawk's voice is almost as if old Tony Hawk inhaled helium.

[@kevinjefferey9792]

Born 89. Don't care what you say I was born in the 80 s.

[@elbruces]

That kid looks a lot like Tony Hawk.

[@pikaleaf8914]

Whitemarsh mall! Had a lot of good times there. Spent my weekends there as a teen in the late 2000s. I was popular there because most kids didn't have jobs. My friends went to window shop and I was actually glazing up. I think it's just cool to hear that place mentioned. If I had been alive back then I'd definitely have wanted to see Tony Hawk.

[@patrickhender6242]

I was twelve and i absolutely was there.nope one state away but wish i was

[@davidmoore8415]

Forget what Hawk was doing. Who was that, Steve Caballero, with that insane trick at the beginning? Wowsers.

[@PhaseSkater]

that no grab ollie was huge though

[@THAT_CRACKHEAD_FRIEND]

People who hate tony hawk for what they did to the tapas brothers 👇

[@remnantrizing-therealgospe4340]

This when I was born lol. His hair is def aerodynamic

[@ConstantinFlattermann]

The hair looks so crazy 😂😂😂😂 toner is the best ❤😂

[@stevenblougouras6902]

That's what got me started skateboarding back in the day. Tony Hawk came to my school in Anaheim one day,and the whole neighborhood was skateboarding by the end of the week,man, if I had a time machine.

[@JoeBidenn-ug6tr]

1.50 for a skateboard! ITS 65 DOLLARS NOW

[@polfachini6489]

That was one cool hair 😂

[@saul3680]

I remember Tony hawks board in the 80s. It was a board that a lot of my friends wanted to get.

[@TheCitrusCollective]

A DOLLAR FIFTY?!

[@SethParr]

Yep, talk about inflation.

[@seveneyes77]

Nope

[@Anzio_VR]

$150

[@alexmurphy4697]

Firt guys trick was crzy

[@JaredBishopFilms]

That dude looks like Tony Hawk

[@colin7225]

Back when callifornia wasnt an absolute mess.

[@2bin]

Tony was really good back in the day. I wonder whatever became of him...

[@crazyralph6386]

😂

[@JudahsFinest.]

What the 😂😂

[@I-eat-ass-for-dinner]

Do you not own a television? 😂

[@gregpierquet5818]

I paid $129 for my Sims Staab Mad Scientist board. Worth a hell of a lot more now. Yes, still have it.

[@ControlledBalance]

Pink was a pretty popular color in the 80s, eh?

[@SnedzTheBricklayer]

That man just stand there with a straight face and say those boards are $1.50!??!?!?!

[@SpaceNigs]

That first trick was insane wtf, usually 80s skating looks primitive then you just find one random clip that's nuts

[@Coleman_H]

I think that was freestyle legend Per Welinder, only dude to have beaten Rodney Mullen

[@brianisaac1804]

Bruh, that hair!!

[@itsnotforsale]

Why did not that tony hawk kid not got famous

[@michaelthomas4851]

That first trick was cold

[@rohrichoak9740]

I think they should make a whole game franchise about this guy one day.

[@bigsmiffy9012]

A dollar 50 for a new board wow I wish lol I'm 47 and can remember all this good times.!!

[@vespaman101]

Dollar 50 for a skate board... dayum!