I put an old school skate shop in my basement: The 2023 tour

[@RequiemDead]

Thank you youtube for suggesting this video. Wow, this is awesome!!!

[@joeldeleon6107]

Warms my heart! Brings me back to those days. Love it!

[@al_finarfins]

that brought me a HUGE FLASHback of when i was young and drove to Montreal to "footloose" to buy my 1st real skateboard !!! 36 years ago lol !!! the decor reminded me of it. thanks for the memories

[@AS34N]

THATS SO SICK. Ide love to just chill in a skateshop n blaze on my relax time

[@dalerushton1394]

Duuuude ! That's awesome. I started skating in the 1970's as a kid in SoCal, BMX too. I was a total surf-skate punk in High School. Class of 1987. Brings back great memories ! Congrats man. I had flashback nostalgia seeing some of those signs, logos, and stickers ! I had a lot myself, or I remember seeing them. Thanks for the peek. I feel stoked now. Unfortunately I'm 54 and not 17 anymore though, lol . Oh man, great memories, great times. My favorite is that big Santa Cruz logo, I still miss my Santa Cruz board; I think I had it when I was 14 in 1983 ( ? ).

[@monztermovies]

Man, this is killerrrrr! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘❤️

[@starzkream]

I absolutely loved the way the old skate shops smelled. You know exactly what I am talking about.

[@gratefulhank]

I know that smell 😊 it's like a combination of wax ,stickers and 🧈 butter products...

[@gratefulhank]

I remember the smell in my first CCS box from 1995 (my Acme complete)

[@owlsonik37]

Awesome! The Veriflex voodoo was my first board also! Very nostalgic 👍👍👍

[@jefsullivan4059]

Wow. Living the dream. Still in it. Wow.

[@rpier8357]

A flood of memories just ran through me. I still have an original powell patch on the back of a jean jacket.

[@jasonhernandez6315]

Wow!!!! Very cool bro!!! Blast from the past!!!!!!

[@ShredzShop]

Beauty collection!!

[@andrewwastaken2]

Dude this is BEYOND SICK.

[@SuperBrad43]

Soooo rad!

[@sandhanitizer15]

So sick.

[@cylo11]

Looks Awesome 👏. I have a few old school decks hanging on my wall put you have what every old school Sk8ter deams off.

[@angelinfante6402]

Amazing, great idea¡¡ Brings back memories and emotions as I remember from skateshops in Mexico City

[@crazyadventuresandreviews]

I’ve watched this video several times, every man should have a room he can escape too. This is one of my favorite man caves

[@JustLikeHeaven77]

Looks like the old Skate Zone in Pasadena Texas!

[@newarkvintage]

Dope collection and concept! I instantly got that skate shop feel.

[@keithhampton9700]

Lots of weed smoking behind the shop with mini ramp and beer cans everywhere would finish off the authenticity. 🤘😵‍💫🤘

[@Dadication3]

Well done!

[@Pablo-sr5bx]

Awesome.

[@xformant]

Awesome!

[@alfreddill3251]

Fantastic!

[@Ratt611]

Great vibe in there!

[@steveschimka6480]

Reminds me of the Bike Shops/Skate Shops of the mid 80s-early 90s. Awesome flashback!

[@skeleton4837]

Damn what a beauty ! ... all you need is basement the band to be playing in your basement as shop music lol seems cool 😅❤

[@chadrizla496]

I would be kid in a candy store!! This beyond cool!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@lecousinmachin]

It's incredible!

[@lambo485]

That is cool! 🛹

[@heyitsanthony6366]

Love that! You should get some old skate vhs tapes and a little tv to fully complete the vibe

[@jamesg1425]

Really enjoyed it! Awesome vibe

[@condor5150]

That is the greatest Skater man cave ever. I too collect reissues strictly for vanity. When society collapses, we could use the boards as fire wood.

[@jackhammered]

You nailed it!

[@LinkMassing]

Oh,...my,...GOD!!!!! I started skating in the late 80s. You one-hundred-percent nailed it! I am joyed to see the Walker Banner. I have the same exact Vision Psycho Stick and Ray Barbee hanging on my office wall. Also, the Shred Shed was the only shop in Durango Colorado for a number of years. You brought such a smile to my face. This is amazing!!!!

[@allenguimond4634]

I used to shop at the Shred shed .

[@LinkMassing]

@allenguimond4634 Just for grins, can you recall the owners names?

[@allenguimond4634]

James...?

[@LinkMassing]

@allenguimond4634 Wow, yep. Ken and James. What years were you there in Durango? Did you skate?

[@allenguimond4634]

1989 till present day.

[@kleenbeats]

“I’ll take the red Powell with the skull and snake…ey dude, don’t forget my rails. Oh and I’ll grab a set of the Independents and those Hosoi wheels up the back.”

[@uptownbmx6623]

I love this. It reminds me of the Homewood Skate Shop from the mid to late 80's. Thank you for posting this.

[@adamtisch8358]

Sick af! No uncle wiggly ? Ahh yes one of my fav boards ever. The argyle it was called!! Used to rip ocean city Maryland bowl daily. When skateboarding was fun!!!

[@mattbradley1716]

Voodoo II was my first board. Wow, you recreated my childhood. Im in uk too.

[@huckycheese]

Love it !

[@X739LEG]

This is rad dude. It's all about the environment

[@crashline]

Awesome

[@christryon6664]

Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Looks great - excellent job!!

[@ashleystyles6888]

That's brilliant

[@blackbeansmatter1280]

Reissue is just fine. Dope ass set up. Atmosphere goes a loooong way too. Cool to see a Brand X behind that Grosso!

[@GMBTV6]

Great set up!

[@jackward-m2y]

Coolest man cave ever !

[@ericmonty]

So sick! I used to work for a shop called Shred Shed in the mid-late 90's.

[@MoCoyotes]

Nice job Matt!

[@symsdhk]

AMAZING! TAHTS IT

[@ToxicGreen357]

Living the dream! That's so sick bro 👊👊

[@benoitdeclercq9722]

props m8.. all the goodies right there !🥳🥳

[@bigdaddy1115]

Dude must have a pretty Good Job to afford all this awesomeness,Good on you Brother sick collection...

[@viperocco]

That is really dope

[@christophersoprano-sculptor]

Good times!💙💛❤Looks more professional than the "shops" I had growing up. New Jersey, 1988 there were two spots to by skateboards near me, both were like speakeasys. One was an autoparts store, which had a counter like yours. The other was a Liquor Store/Video Rental. They had a small selection in the back.😄

[@Tricklarock]

Yeah, it's funny how some comments are comparing 90s skate shops to this. They definitely weren't the same, but I guess when you're a kid, it all seems overwhelming - but like you said, most 80s shops were barely 'shops'! That is unless they were part of some cheap bike shop, or some shit like that?!

[@86os-n6b]

This is awesome!

[@spitsomefire]

Came up in recommended videos thats really cool

[@blakezacharymusic]

this is so good !!!

[@jeffreyd3794]

This brings back a lot of memories for me. I was at the peak of my skateboarding years between 1987-1990. What a great time. And that is exactly what I remember the skate shops and BMX shops in my area looking like. Nice touch with the Misfits posters and the decor as well. Truly incredible basement space. Well done.

[@tommyvizzle]

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug! I love it, great work! 👏🏻👏🏻

[@bklyncrook]

Standard basement, man, that was one hell of a basement. From the vibe of the shop you were going for, def. a late 80s, Santa Monica/Venice/SD bright colorways of the West Coast. For me, started skating in '89 and heavy in the early 90s in NYC - the shops were def. urbanized with Shut, then 101, Blind, Life, Earth and others where street style took over the beach vibe. Maybe one day, I earn enough money to build something of a NYC skate shop next to a corner bodega with graffities and stickers. One can dream.

[@124BILLION]

You did it… you fuckn did it! Big props homie

[@KING_KONK]

Love it bro

[@OurLifestylePodcast]

Love it Matt. Keep up the awesomeness! ODB from OLP

[@Sora_Digital]

Sick!! I Love it, brings back good memories for me. Love the banners!

[@addrock7695]

This is sweet bro!!!! Living in small town NZ back in the day, we had no easy access to skate gear and the like(and no money either). I spent so many reading skate magazines and loving the graphics on the decks.. You’ve nailed it mate! Thanks for sharing!

[@Sean-Hr]

Thats a sick idea. You should add a shoe wall and put up some Osiris D3's, Emerica Reynolds 1, 2 & 3s, Es Accels' lol

[@charliesk8ter]

OMG!!!!! I would love to do this but a 90's skateshop vibes!!! Your basement is so freaking amazing!!!!!!

[@Shi-WaiLam-hy7zj]

Wow... I wish I'm your friend so we could go back in time well.. in memory of those good old days. Gulwing.. SMA.. Vision... Hokus Pokus.... that's da shit!!! Of course I was the other mainstream Tracker, Powell Bones, Airwalk Prototype to its very end when they became uncool of guy.!! Best days best days...... period.!

[@robbeaton]

That is killer! I went to one of those Bones Brigade demos on the ‘89 Tour too, remember seeing the patch in the booklet but never got one. (Still have the booklet though.) You’re also the only other person beside me that I’ve ever seen with one of those Body Glove neoprene bracelets. Still have that as well.

[@999Adventures]

That green Lance Mountain deck was my first pro deck... i bought the recent re-issue. Id like to get my hands on a green one eventually

[@stusux]

Awesome job. Def has those 80s skateshop feels. I remember the first one I walked into. They had all the boards on the roof graphic facing downwards. Spent a couple of hours with my head facing the roof. My neck was sore the night. Ended up convincing mum to buy a psycho stick as my first board for christmas. 😎

[@jdmresearch]

Amazing. Subscribed.

[@SPOD_ZONE]

Holy smokes this is so sick

[@Rolling2Quarters]

Dude, as someone who started skating in the 80's, this is so rad. 🤘🏼

[@Concretewaveshopcologne]

good job!!!

[@erics2091]

Unfortunately I live in an area where basements can flood. It’s pretty much just storage, laundry, and a gym. But very cool.

[@TreySpivey3]

Dude this takes me back to the late 80's early 90's. Gives me flashbacks to my hometown skate/bike shop that has since closed years and years ago. Awesome collection. Thanks for sharing.

[@847lifestyle]

sick setup

[@chrisandnicolepurcell683]

totally rad dude

[@MrCantabrigian]

this is really rad! nice work man

[@RealLifeSkater]

Dude this is amazing

[@robertg.7052]

I always had this vision in my head!!! I just had to pass on a mongoose scooter !!!

[@MattTee1975]

I can still smell the shops from the 80s. The only more recognizable smell to me is the scent of a brand new, clear cassette tape.

[@Steezo_Romero]

EPIC basement. Well done dude. Way to keep the dream alive. I felt the nostalgia, big time

[@kristopherkrueger4617]

Standard? You are BLESSED bruh.

[@hoopslaa5235]

Mid 1980s in South New Jersey beach area in a town of Northfield or Pleasantville off shore road, there was a late teen/early 20s kid that his parents let him open and have a real underground basement skate shop. I assume he contacted skate companies and bought some product and had 3-5 pieces of standard stuff like wheels and trucks and boards etc since there were no skate shops at all around then, especially not on the ‘mainland’ off of the islands away from Atlantic City for example. If there were any shops on the islands in the south New Jersey area then they were cheesy Hot topic type stuff. Nothing rider purchased or actually functional stuff. More fashion. Anyways this gave me that memory of the kid , hopefully he sees this video and my comment. Shout out to the kid in S. NJ who had that real basement stuff for sale in mid 80s!

[@RawMediaArchive]

this is sick, makes me remember my dads collection

[@PapaWoody440]

"Well, I got me an office, gold records on the wall." - Joe Walsh Love that you have the Ban This tribute deck in your collection. I've got a few Jason Jessee Sun God tribute decks, along with an original, and Kevin Staab Mad Scientist and Pirate tributes to go with an original Witch and Genie. Some decks are getting crazy in price and a Jeff Grosso Toybox is going for at least double what I paid for mine a few years ago, so I picked up a tribute to build up. I collect decks from skaters that I looked up to when I was a kid, mostly Powell Peralta and Santa Cruz, so your set up is super rad.

[@kingstilletto]

cool stuff

[@TheNostalgicNeighborhood]

🙌 Life goals! Thanks for taking the time to share this! I love how you have it hidden behind the curtain, adds to the sense of going through a portal to your blast from the past. So awesome 👏

[@MrKydaman]

That is awesome! There's nothing wrong with re-issue stuff. It's still super cool.

[@tangoarmy]

Reminds me of You Animal You in Kansas City. First skate shop I ever got to visit as a kid. Love the podcast.

[@Wezel86]

variflex voodoo was my first board too.

[@zoozu2067]

Rad as, you've captured the vibe for sure. Will always remember walking into a skate shop for the first time in 1987 and being blown away. I loved the colourful Gators and Gonz's.

[@donny4182]

That’s cool as hell!

[@rizato1]

Love it, maybe some more shirts?

[@jackiebuchanan3045]

this is insane

[@jusbamathy1355]

Gawd that is fuckin cool!! I remember going to skateshops back then with my brothers. hangin out getting parts and meeting other skaters. I was the little grom sister that would get a free sticker or got to watch any 411 skate vid I wanted at a few shops. So many memories. Skate Life Forever 🤘🏽 This is incredibly awesome 🖤

[@markmullen1852]

As soon as you pulled that curtain back, awesome memories came flooding back from 1985. I was 11 and got seriously into skating. Awesome job man.