Loveletters Season 8: Old Skate Mags - Part 1 | Jeff Grosso’s Loveletters to Skateboarding | VANS

Before cell phones, the internet and skate video magazines reigned supreme... In this episode Grosso examines the birth of skateboarding in old skate mags from the 1970's with some of the pioneers who were there. Steve Olson, Chris Strople, Bill Sharp, John Lucero and Lee Ralph are featured.
Jonny!
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Jonny!
"Only Love" (Instrumental)
Jonny!
"I'm Gone" (Instrumental
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[@vans]

Grosso digs deep in the past to bring the best ads and articles in all the old skate mags. What do you remember from them?

[@alexxxo4]

Good Memory!

[@maxwellpollville1698]

Vans I'm 30. So 2/3's of it. No. 1/3 cause I don't remember being 4.

[@maxwellpollville1698]

Vans how do you remember this shit Grosso? Between drugs and life I don't remember shit! And you'd probably win in a drug/life competition. You also still rip hard and fast, whilst giving ZERO fucks.... you win Jeff. Sorry. Mr.Grosso....

[@jimdor8353]

that was the best. thank you.... rip mike weed

[@nicparker3809]

where is his pool?

[@danaustin4624]

Hey kids, I'm 41 now. Started skating in 87'. It really bit me hard in 88'. No matter what has hapend in my life, I've never been able to stop! Roll Forever! Skate and Destroy!!!!

[@neekomax75]

The music in this video is everything.

[@hebrewsfl]

I've been home watching Loveletters every day because my knee is all blown up. So glad that this got posted today. Grosso looks so damn happy in the opening. That's tight.

[@jimdor8353]

hope u get better..

[@supakidgalaxy]

I get more excited for the letters than I do for my pay check

[@fernandomaron87]

The 70's were amazing. Surf style everywhere. I skate like that nowadays. This is one of the best episodes for sure. Thank you Grosso and Vans

[@microchrist6122]

Before cell phones and computers this was it , the magazines 🔥🔥🔥

[@jmorra]

I bought that first issue with Weaver on the cover after seeing Bahne ads in Surfer -- from that point on I could think of nothing else. And those shots of Jay at the Dogbowl by Sharp-- I love Friedman but Sharp also captured the hardcore Dogtown vibe too.

[@mech_mod_rob3077]

I'm Gonna Smoke A Bowl & Watch This Like 8 More Times! Thank You Jeff. Thank You Vans. Thank You God!

[@panictryouts]

The animation of the photo sequences were awesome! Please do more of them!

[@solidrock6524]

Just let em play. Jeff's voice is so soothing. RIP big brother

[@iamnotanumber100]

Lee Ralph is the man.

[@jimdor8353]

he is a ripper

[@kimrice394]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Please... Never... Stop doing this.

[@felix-ve8jk]

Skateboarding can really be anything you want it to. It took me nearly 30 years to figure that out. I bet the late 70s and early 80s was a really special time period, though.

[@stickshiftart]

That was so cool, the best part was bringing to life the sequence photos. Thx for that. These mags were the Bible of skating and even to this day they still give me the stoke to look thru them.

[@MillCityJam]

Yeah - I grew up waiting for Skateboarder to arrive each month at my local shop... Strople, Wally, Pineapple,Tony, and Jay - all my favs... Haven't skated with Wally yet. Maybe one day.

[@TOMG12XU]

Best letter yet! Loving the sequences coming to life! & Lee sums up BB perfectly!

[@vans]

Thanks for watching TOMG12XU! If you loved these sequences, look out for more on previous Loveletters episodes here: bit.ly/2tcdikz

[@SheSkates926]

Important History

[@voltaire2001]

Thank you Vans and Jeff Grosso for continuing to put out Love Letters!!I think this is the best skateboarding show there is.If U guys had a donate option for this show,I would bequest.!!

[@vans]

Thanks for love russell perez! For more Loveletters, check out this playlist: bit.ly/2dcVD2P

[@stephenfernald2490]

Another killer episode. Thanks for this. I think the 'letters are getting better!

[@vans]

Appreciate the feedback, stephen fernald! If you loved this, be sure to check out more Loveletters here: bit.ly/2tcdikz

[@Capitan_Chaos]

Wow. Just wow...this episode is awesome! Thanks for uploading these magazines.

[@elmercyperro]

so cool that you'll be archiving these old issues online. looking forward!

[@skaterjames10]

Really hope you guys mention Thatcher in part 2!!!!!

[@baware9087]

Any link to this online archive Grosso speaks of?

[@iglooproductions]

B Aware Yeah really... where the fuck is it?

[@busplay]

A simple search on google does the trick ya muppets :D skatemagarchive.blogspot.com.au/search/label/1981

[@SWVIDS01]

that does not feature the old skateboarder mags and stuff?

[@huphtur]

The archive is here: skateboarding.transworld.net/skateboarder-magazine-archives/

[@majesticuncasual186]

LOL @ ya muppets.

[@skiblebrain]

LOVE LETTER TO FRANK GERWER!!!!!!!

[@joshbarth9469]

This.

[@f.v.s.7107]

before phones and internet , so true that the mags were all we had. Every page was important to us , great show guys !

[@xaoskuntablast3354]

grosso man can you please let us see the full lee ralph interview uncut

[@jarkokoo]

This is the best show on the internet.

[@vans]

Thanks for the love jarkokoo! For more Loveletters check out this playlist: bit.ly/2u3fI1Z

[@karlbridge5033]

I love these old mags. Amazing time.

[@_....J........................]

I love this show.

[@handywithshovels]

My favorite episode yet!

[@maxwellpollville1698]

I love picturing Jeff and his buddies looking through this archive. I hope that you guys put together an episode of that.... O wait. You did. never mind.

[@andrewpickles75]

yo when we seeing more Lee Ralph!!

[@vinneyboombotz727]

I remember those mags times and ads. I agree 1979 great year..you wanted to be that guy in the pool hitting the tile..i had a shop kugo model with graphics on top with clear pizza grip tape ,red kryptonite and Lazer trucks,I was a freshman in high school...life was good because I skated.

[@skarceoneafd9609]

I was lucky enough to be in the last generation of the skate mags in the early 90s when I finally got 411vm #1 it was my first time seeing other people actually skating in motion

[@matlhokepaletswe6882]

I love the Loveletters! All the way from Botswana!

[@vans]

Hey Matlho Kepaletswe! Keep tearing it up in Botswana. If you love this, be sure to check out more Loveletters here: bit.ly/2tcdikz

[@matlhokepaletswe6882]

Vans Thanks a million times!

[@dandylion247]

one of the best loveletters yet!

[@vans]

Thanks for the love, Dandy Lion! If you loved this, be sure to check out the rest of the Loveletters here: bit.ly/2tcdikz

[@RobbGardner]

Rad letters. Bowman, Strople, Olson, Alva, Weaver. Classic cool guys.

[@deanturnbull4421]

Best episode ever... with the best news ever since I found Da Mad Taco's archive on facebook!!!

[@nalveyna]

This one is sick! I kept pausing it over & over just to see all the cool '70s pics & old magazine covers. Brad Bowman does look cool af. I've never seen alot of these photos they're rad. "The only mf's that cool are in hollywood"!!😂😂

[@vix_in_japan]

That was unexpected, watching for my love of skateboarding and suddenly there's an old Amiga computer on screen 02:13 that I still use to this day to do quirky artwork on!

[@orestesrodriguesmotti9809]

Congratulations,jeff

[@thebonessk8r1]

Best series ever keep em coming!

[@vans]

More Grosso comin atcha Thursday. In the mean time check out more Loveletters here: bit.ly/2tcdikz

[@percyzeppelin]

Jeff you hit the truth on skateboarding every time.

[@vans]

The man speaks the truth. For more Grosso check out this link: bit.ly/2tcdikz

[@faunaflage]

That was a good episode. Nicely Grosso''d.

[@Mia-zm7mj]

Miss you Jeff

[@kevinnivek8907]

Amiga 1000 spotted! Lots of early DIY skate vids were edited/titled with Amiga computers…. And even zines with early DTP! ❤

[@LooGanida]

SICK!!!! okay, where's the link to the archive?

[@matthewgutierrez8817]

i love this show!

[@vans]

Thanks for the love Matthew Gutierrez! For more Loveletters check this link out: bit.ly/2tcdikz

[@frankielang21]

love this show

[@vans]

Thanks man! For more Jeff Grosso's Loveletters check this link out: bit.ly/2u3fI1Z

[@assault_skateboards]

Radical stuff!

[@jeremiahwilson1781]

how many worked the pause/play button to get a good look at the too fast edited ads and photos?

[@peacetree5000]

Love you Grosso,simple,

[@vans]

New episode coming atcha Thursday! In the meantime, you can find more Grosso here: bit.ly/2tcdikz

[@cadams6247]

Steve Olson humble AF 🙌🏻

[@maximt1054]

holy fuck you are the greatest people on this planet! Thank you so much for all the things you do!

[@shannonreese9896]

Grosso finally talked to Lee Ralph! Hopefully he gets a full episode this season.

[@CantThinkofaCoolOne]

Could make this into an hour special, for sure.

[@joepyatt1]

Hey Vans and Grosso I have an idea for a love letters...survey all the pros you can and ask them about the best ramp they skated. Or do one on the mini ramp or about launch ramps as we called them here in St. Louis. Thanks for all of it skateboarding!!!

[@MegaAppl3]

Good one

[@aharonsuri845]

Rest easy Grosso

[@nkmcfrln]

Bobby Piercy won the Catalina Classic and Lucero is right about everything: Lazer trucks were the best trucks and 1979 was the best year in skateboarding ; ) Grosso, Lucero, and Lance were all ams with Variflex which was the team that wore half-shirts.

[@diosgengar]

GOLD

[@lawrencesmokingangele8785]

You got me out of the pool for that? Kook. ! LoL no just kidding, I got all those mag's

[@keithhampton9700]

In the late 70s,I got a sub for Skateboarder mag. 3 issues into my subscription I received Action Now mag. I was so pissed off. Action Now mag was not all about Skateboarding. So pissed!! Soon later insurance companies forced Skateboard parks to close in N Texas. So Bumed! Too young to go too far to find a place to skate other than some street stuff near my house. Thank the Gods skateboarding came back. Found sum friends in High School who skated. I was Saved by the Skate Gods!!

[@nicparker3809]

Happy 40th Vans..

[@graxjpg]

Hard rock beat, confident feet; The feeling is real, a magic unique; Life in the fast lane, Or laid back with grace; Win lose, or draw, It’s a dance, not a race.

[@numberthread2493]

I love how grosso tells everyone to get off their damn computers and go skate

[@brodiwheeler7583]

Wait hold up, Lumberg was the editor of Surfer Mag? #OfficeSpace Unreal! 😆 0:55

[@johndef5075]

SkateBoarder mag was the coolest thing in the world to this 13 yr. old in Columbus, Ohio. Our skate park was a drainage ditch called Arcadia because that was the closest street. Ironically I think thats where Jeff was from, Arcadia, Ca. Like a dumbass I threw a huge stack of SkateBoarder mags away a long time ago. Still kicking myself.....

[@cron205]

what about the UK 80's and early 90's skate mag Poweredge magazine

[@you00t]

from a photographers point of view it would be great to do a special on the kit they were all using back then to take these shots....

[@erichanhauser3190]

I had a Puma half shirt that I didnt cut. They actually used to sell half shirts.

[@cron205]

rad radster video Grosso

[@vans]

Thanks Jason Bouskill! For more Grosso check this link out: bit.ly/2u3fI1Z

[@cron205]

+Vans check out gleaming the Canadian thrashin' on KZbin

[@briansweda6094]

I loved power edge

[@kevinbiram]

Hell yeah Sharpey

[@aklcraigc]

Love this shit.

[@saymstuff]

🤘🏻!

[@ronaldhickman9953]

Action Now !!

[@parliamentaryzone4757]

🙌

[@FREEENERGYDEVICEBAND]

what or who is "Jonny!"? I cant find any netrefs on them at all. them jams is tasty!

[@thedude11890]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3ypmpJ5iZykirc

[@93281039]

Hi. Cool episode. I'm trying to find more about the tunes in this episode. Anyone got a link to Jonny! ?

[@erichanhauser3190]

First trick I learned was how to bail/fall/knee slide/ roll.

[@rj1592]

70's- baby boomers Surfer Style 80's gen X Hardcore Style 90's- gen y Hip Hop Style 2000-now- millennials Everything Style

[@maxwellpollville1698]

Ryan Jordan 90's still had its aggression and style tho. Frank gerwer?!? Valelly was still rippin hard... Tony T?!?!?!?!!!!!!!

[@mantistoboggan828]

Maxwell Pollville I think he's just talking in general

[@jimdor8353]

ahhh truth

[@AlexG1020]

its hard to tell if there is a style now and we just cant see it cause were still in it, or if we've just been in a gradual culture decline since the 60s.

[@falleinloveshoes7]

That's the most ignorant thing to say. Skateboarding became more diverse and global within this era, it is pretty easy to find skateboarders who are pleasing to the eye.

[@warmnoodl3z899]

Vans are the best

[@oscarreynolds9312]

where to find the old mag archive??

[@nathancroft5839]

Really wish grosso did a love letter on lee Ralph

[@azvid13]

The “upper anchalance” GreT name for a zine 😎

[@jeremiahwilson1781]

Man i wish Zorlac..G&S..pre Dorfman Sims..Schmitt Stix..even fukin Vision itself would come back.

[@calvincooley1074]

I have the Farrah Fawcett issue

[@onthelow__4886]

Hope you're doing good grossso

[@alfonsofernandezdemiguel8909]

At the time here in poor Spain we have just one issue for everybody.It was like porn for us.Dream times.Thank you brothers 🤙

[@samstoner4984]

I have the 1979 skateboarder mag

[@maxwellpollville1698]

Did they say when this is coming out for us to read?

[@SixStair]

we wanted the archive to come out when this episode did but we ran into a little snag (it wasn't perfect) so we delayed it until the release of part 2 (July 20th)--- go to skateboardermag.com

[@voltaire2001]

Chris Strople has one hardcore California accent.

[@edwardbernays8617]

so whats up with Barefoot, the lee ralph adventure?

[@customxke]

Wilkes Loveletter.

[@simonvance8054]

The good old days of skate mags before the youtube and the internet existed...oh yeah....

[@cron205]

? when is there gonna be another episode

[@cron205]

how come there's no new episodes

[@powpow50cal24]

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