Skateboard Decks

Since I started posting more entries about the old school skateboards that came out when I was young, some even before my time, I decided to post the original Caballero pig decks.. I posted the black and red bats & dragon Cab Street … “Pigs” are what us old timers call the fat decks like this…

(Left) This is one of the first commercial Steve Cabellero graphics used (on the left) This skateboard has gone for $2,200 on eBay in the past.

(Right) The skateboard on the right is a redo of the original graphic, you can see they made his name more legible by moving the dragon up a little off the disc and revealing his name more in the graphic… awesome skateboards from the past.

After posting the cover of Disposable recently, I realized I should post the old pink/red Lance Mountain that seems to be one of the rarest and hard to find colors of old Lance Mountain decks.

It’s been reported that thic deck has hit the $900 range on eBay in the past and will likely only go up in price as the years go on.

Being a huge skateboard deck art fan, when I first stumbled across Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art - I thought to myself - “this is the book I thought would never come out.” Almost as if, I had been waiting for it forever.

Take a look at some of the historic skateboard deck art in this book…

Another skateboard deck with art I can picture from my youth is the old school John Grigley. When this deck came out I can remember I tried to draw the face on paper to make a stencil for my book covers! Those were the days…