As a BMX rider, I also fell in love with skateboarding because at that time a BMX magazine called FREESTYLIN would feature pro skaters in the magazine. my first deck was the Vision Mark Gonzalez. 1986. This basement is all me I swear! lol freaking awesome!!!!!!
So cool! That Gonz board is so iconic 🙌 I remember the magazines incorporating skateboarding a bit around that time to, and may have also helped push me into skateboarding was well 👍
I have a stack of Freestylin Mags stored away..curb dogs, Scotty freeman and club home boy zines.. could you get away with a buckwheat t shirt today 🫣 I don't think so
I REMEMBER FINDING AN OLD 80S BOARD AT A THRIFT SHOP IN THE 90S WHEN I WAS ABOUT 7 OR 8 IT WAS 97 98 PROLLY AND I TOOK IT TO THE SKATEPARK EVERYONE WAS IN AWE THAT I BROUGHT AN ORIGINAL BOARD IT WAS SO SICK EVERYONE WANTED TO RIDE IT. DEFINITLY ONE OF MY FAVORITE MEMORIES AS A YOUNG KID TRYING TO STAND OUT FROM THE NORM
Dudes got SUCH a great attitude! Reminds me of my first deck, a Veriflex (I think) Jinx I got from K-Mart (Kame Apart) for $70 in Bozeman Montana. My first pro deck, a Powell Peralta Hawk Claw (pink) from HAMMELS Skate Shop, Mission Beach San Diego. Nostalgic Indeed!
Oh, that’s so rad!!! I grew up in Bethalto, so Altered Skates was the closest shop to us. I remember there was a skate shop in Fairview Heights too, but only went there once.
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhoodcool, i lived in East Alton/rosewood Heights, not too far from ya. yes i skated for Altered skates during the late 80s, we did a few demos and contest at the Fairview heights store. i will be watching some more of your vids
Another epic video Matt! Thank you for sharing this as I had never heard of this podcast. I have awesome memories of skating with friends and evertbody piling in my friend Ray's house to watch the new SK8 TVs on Nickelodeon then going back out to skate with a little more inspiration!. Over the years I have acquired all of my favorite childhood decks except one.... the Rob Roskopp eye deck... someday soon I will complete my collection! Take care my friend 🛹🛹🛹
Right on!!! You’ll love the podcast, I’m sure!!! That’s an awesome memory about taking inspiration from SK8TV with your friends back in the day!😊 Good luck on that last deck 🙌
Man!! Trip down memory lane seeing those Vision and Zorlac banners! Awesome set up, thanks for sharing....woah seeing that Gonz deck! My first board was a Vision Ghost and my most prized was an original SMA Natas. Great memories
So cool ! I wish I could have enough space at home to create something like this. I already own so much skateboard decks (almost 180) and 2 bikes (GT and Haro), but clearly not enough space to display them ! 😔 Maybe later ….
Awesome! I moved to west county in 1992, for my senior year. I wasn’t skating much then, so I don’t recall that one. Splash was still up by Chesterfield Mall, and I knew a girl who worked up there. 👍
Altered Skates... I haven't heard that name in DECADES! But I do remember them. There was a guy in my old Boy Scout troop (Andy May) that was about 6 years older than me that would buy all his decks from there. Then I'd buy them used for 10 bucks from him. Good memories.
thats so cool !! 🤟🤟. im kind of doing the same thing except with vintage atv racing stuff that ive collected all my life . most racers started off skating and or bmx before we moved to faster machines . no matter how old you get , dont ever grow up 🤟🤟
Very cool! We chatted for about an hour down there and I had to cut some things out to make it shorter, but Matt shared about how the shops in the area as a kid were all surf/skate shops, and he wanted to incorporate some the surfing vibes with the skim boards, palm tree, etc. he said he picked up those body glove bracelets at one of those shops back in the day. How cool that he still has them
I can still remember my first real proper board it was a santa monica airlines Jim Thiebaud deck a pair of neon yellow gullwing trucks with bones bearings and santa cruz speed wheels to start with I didn't want to scrub the graphics and what not but as my skills progressed I shredded the ass out of it.
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood thank you so much for bringing all the memories of my first real deck back to me. I'm 49 year's young and I wrote my comment before I had fully watched your video. I absolutely loved that deck so glad to see it again as its fired up some kick ass memories. Thanks again dude your a straight up Og legend. 💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥
Matt, I’ve got a random question for you. How wide was the original Rat Bones deck? The Vato Rat deck? I know the reissue is 10”. Wasn’t the early 80s one narrower?
That’s a great question. Honestly, I don’t know. I don’t have access to an OG and I don’t see the specs posted online. The one that Stacy pulls out of the TV in the first Bones Brigade video looks like it could be 10”, so I’m guessing the reissue is correct. th-cam.com/video/CQyneVJN9yw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KZHwQ2N-qAnnKKRg
I do watch his videos from time to time. He’s awesome! I have that one on my list, but I haven’t watched it yet. There’s so much good stuff on TH-cam that I get backlogged 🤣 Glad to hear it’s good! Hope to get to it later this week. 👊
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood ohhh man, how about tracker ultralights…. !? I just visited my old skate shop and took the wife. It smelled the same because of the ice rink but was all hockey gear. Sorry just being nostalgic. It’s crazy how 35 years can go by but you still smell and feel it …
The Kinetic sessions don’t happen regularly like they used to, but there’s usually at least a couple guys out on the weekends. If you check the St. Louis Old Man Skate Cartel Facebook group, you can see when dudes are meeting up to skate 👍
Most repop decks are in the $75-$85 range, some more limited ones can be over $100. Not too bad after you consider inflation. But some of the originals from the 80s in good condition can indeed cost thousands apiece.
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Yeah I was talking about the originals. Seen some sh*t costing 60k somewhere. Also even Tony hawk himself payed someone to get an original board to his "nest collection" a hefty sum and gave him his personal board. Talking about inflation huh?
As a BMX rider, I also fell in love with skateboarding because at that time a BMX magazine called FREESTYLIN would feature pro skaters in the magazine. my first deck was the Vision Mark Gonzalez. 1986. This basement is all me I swear! lol freaking awesome!!!!!!
Loved the Mark G decks! Heck, I still do! FREESTYLIN’ Mag ruled all!
So cool! That Gonz board is so iconic 🙌 I remember the magazines incorporating skateboarding a bit around that time to, and may have also helped push me into skateboarding was well 👍
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhoodit was/ is so awesome! 😎
@@shawkes6775yes mark always had awesome decks. I miss those days!
I have a stack of Freestylin Mags stored away..curb dogs, Scotty freeman and club home boy zines.. could you get away with a buckwheat t shirt today 🫣 I don't think so
This is the most visually appealing collection display I've ever seen in the skate space, really love it
I love it too. Such a great way to display a collection!!
I REMEMBER FINDING AN OLD 80S BOARD AT A THRIFT SHOP IN THE 90S WHEN I WAS ABOUT 7 OR 8 IT WAS 97 98 PROLLY AND I TOOK IT TO THE SKATEPARK EVERYONE WAS IN AWE THAT I BROUGHT AN ORIGINAL BOARD IT WAS SO SICK EVERYONE WANTED TO RIDE IT. DEFINITLY ONE OF MY FAVORITE MEMORIES AS A YOUNG KID TRYING TO STAND OUT FROM THE NORM
That definitely sounds like a fun way to stand out from the norm!!! 🙌
Great video! Awesome!
Anyone that grew up skating in the 80's can relate to this skateshop setup.
I miss those days
Thanks for the kind words! I miss those days too!
Dudes got SUCH a great attitude! Reminds me of my first deck, a Veriflex (I think) Jinx I got from K-Mart (Kame Apart) for $70 in Bozeman Montana. My first pro deck, a Powell Peralta Hawk Claw (pink) from HAMMELS Skate Shop, Mission Beach San Diego.
Nostalgic Indeed!
Right on. The Hawk Claw was so classic for a first board! 💯 I never heard anyone call K-Mart “came apart”, how fitting 🤣
Really rad, I dig Matt's vision (and podcast), and thanks for sharing these interviews with folks keeping the classic stuff alive!
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙌
This touched my heart. Our era was unmatched. My fav deck ever was my Jason Lee Cat in the Hat bLind deck. What a trip down memory lane. Thank you
Right on. The Jason Lee Cat in the Hat was an amazing graphic 💯
WOOOOW WOOW WOOOOOW How cool is that?
I know, right!?!? That basement is beyond cool! 🙌🙌🙌
awesome , altered skates of America in Alton. Skated downtown Alton for many years. I still talk to Glen on social media.
Oh, that’s so rad!!! I grew up in Bethalto, so Altered Skates was the closest shop to us. I remember there was a skate shop in Fairview Heights too, but only went there once.
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhoodcool, i lived in East Alton/rosewood Heights, not too far from ya. yes i skated for Altered skates during the late 80s, we did a few demos and contest at the Fairview heights store. i will be watching some more of your vids
@@bradthompson2593 Oh wow, not far at all. Small world!!!
Wow! What an amazing basement and such a humble guy. Thanks for filming and sharing this. This guy is forever young, and I love it!
Couldn’t agree more. 💯 Thanks for watching and commenting!
epic display of radness
Totally agree! 💯 So rad!!!
@@juanhander5876 hell yeah brother you know that 💯💯💯👌👌👌🔥🔥🔥
A Haro Circuit Board deck! DAAAAMMMMNNNNN! That's rare. I love it!!
I hear you!!! Love the blend of BMX and skate with that one. 🙌
Yooooo I really enjoyed this Matt and Matt P… 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 1988 GT Vertigo ST was my first real freestyle bmx as well. Still need to recreate mine
Awesome Brandon! I had a hunch you’d enjoy this one too 👊
Another epic video Matt! Thank you for sharing this as I had never heard of this podcast. I have awesome memories of skating with friends and evertbody piling in my friend Ray's house to watch the new SK8 TVs on Nickelodeon then going back out to skate with a little more inspiration!. Over the years I have acquired all of my favorite childhood decks except one.... the Rob Roskopp eye deck... someday soon I will complete my collection! Take care my friend 🛹🛹🛹
Right on!!! You’ll love the podcast, I’m sure!!! That’s an awesome memory about taking inspiration from SK8TV with your friends back in the day!😊 Good luck on that last deck 🙌
NONE of this is crap. 💯👍
Totally agreed 💯👊
Man!! Trip down memory lane seeing those Vision and Zorlac banners! Awesome set up, thanks for sharing....woah seeing that Gonz deck! My first board was a Vision Ghost and my most prized was an original SMA Natas. Great memories
Right on!!! Thanks so much for watching. Yes, Matt’s setup is so awesome 🙌🙌🙌
The colors, the smells 🤟🏼🇺🇸
The smells of a skate shop really transport you back!!! 💯🙌
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood And the neon!!!
What a rad basement. Just needs a combo tv/vhs to play skate videos on
Great idea 🙌
Nice job. I love his social media as well. Epic!!
Awesome! Stay tuned, Matt and I are going to visit another friend’s collection this weekend and I’ll have a video of that soon too 🙌
Throwback shop replica as a hobby is the new basement train set
I love it!!!!! 🙌💯🤯
I do it too!
so cool to see your channel growing. I've been here since less than 1000 subs!
How cool! 🙌 Thanks for being a part of the neighborhood 👊
So cool !
I wish I could have enough space at home to create something like this.
I already own so much skateboard decks (almost 180) and 2 bikes (GT and Haro), but clearly not enough space to display them ! 😔
Maybe later ….
Whoa! 180 decks!!! That’s amazing. You totally could make an amazing display with them if you ever find the space 🙌❤️
Great episode. Anyone else went like “I had that and my friend rode that” Definitely going to check out the podcast. Keep em coming 👊🏻🛹
🙋♂️ Right on! I’m sure you’ll enjoy the podcast. It’s so good!!!
Outstanding!
Totally agree! His basement is so awesome 🙌
Super Awesome! I remember a bike/skateshop out in West County- Wheel West.
Awesome! I moved to west county in 1992, for my senior year. I wasn’t skating much then, so I don’t recall that one. Splash was still up by Chesterfield Mall, and I knew a girl who worked up there. 👍
Wheels West is where I got that Vertigo, ironically… 🍻
@@MattPickerSTL Right on!!! When did they close down or move?
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood what town in WC? I was in Ballwin/Manchester area!
@@CK3KSF I was in Ellisville, close to the intersection of Clarkson and Manchester. (Not too far from Bluebird Park.) So pretty close to Ballwin!
ahhh i feel home in this place
That’s awesome!!! It definitely felt like the good old days in there ❤️
Altered Skates... I haven't heard that name in DECADES! But I do remember them. There was a guy in my old Boy Scout troop (Andy May) that was about 6 years older than me that would buy all his decks from there. Then I'd buy them used for 10 bucks from him. Good memories.
That’s so cool. I loved that shop!!
thats so cool !! 🤟🤟. im kind of doing the same thing except with vintage atv racing stuff that ive collected all my life . most racers started off skating and or bmx before we moved to faster machines . no matter how old you get , dont ever grow up 🤟🤟
Well said!!! 💯🙌👊
I had one of those Body Glove neoprene bracelets! Always wondered if anyone else ever bought one. Nicely done on the skate shop 👏🏻
Very cool! We chatted for about an hour down there and I had to cut some things out to make it shorter, but Matt shared about how the shops in the area as a kid were all surf/skate shops, and he wanted to incorporate some the surfing vibes with the skim boards, palm tree, etc. he said he picked up those body glove bracelets at one of those shops back in the day. How cool that he still has them
No way!!! My first board was a variflex voodoo just like that! That's so cool
Awesome!!! 🙌🙌🙌
Love the haro circuit board 👌 just sweet
Haro stuff is so cool!!!
Ray is amazing 😎
💯 Absolutely!!!! ❤️
Just needs a vintage TV to play old skate tapes and a cash register on the counter to really complete the experience; that would be sick.
Agreed. That would be a nice touch 👍
Sweet!🤘🏽
Right on!!!
very sweet
Awesome!
F*ckn Awesome!!!
Right on! 🤘👊
I still have my tony hawk&bill danforth on my den wall…allways wanted mark the gonz gonzales board
Oh wow, that’s awesome 🙌 I wanted that Gonz board too. I’ll probably pick up its reissue one of these days.
That is great
Totally agree 💯🙌
Wow!!!!
Agreed!!! 💯
That’s not used crap… that’s some awesome stuff!!
Well said!!! 💯
I can still remember my first real proper board it was a santa monica airlines Jim Thiebaud deck a pair of neon yellow gullwing trucks with bones bearings and santa cruz speed wheels to start with I didn't want to scrub the graphics and what not but as my skills progressed I shredded the ass out of it.
Right on!!! Jim Thiebaud is so rad! And that deck is such a classic 🙌
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood thank you so much for bringing all the memories of my first real deck back to me. I'm 49 year's young and I wrote my comment before I had fully watched your video. I absolutely loved that deck so glad to see it again as its fired up some kick ass memories. Thanks again dude your a straight up Og legend. 💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥
I miss my old Gibson zorlac
And rightly so! Such a classic graphic 🙌❤️
Great ramp and ditch board 🛹
Matt, I’ve got a random question for you.
How wide was the original Rat Bones deck? The Vato Rat deck? I know the reissue is 10”. Wasn’t the early 80s one narrower?
That’s a great question. Honestly, I don’t know. I don’t have access to an OG and I don’t see the specs posted online. The one that Stacy pulls out of the TV in the first Bones Brigade video looks like it could be 10”, so I’m guessing the reissue is correct. th-cam.com/video/CQyneVJN9yw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KZHwQ2N-qAnnKKRg
I had a 80s Nash in 94 my dad bought me for my 1st skateboard 35 still ripping board much lighter n smaller now tho 😂
Nice! It’s cool that you started off with an 80s shape!!! 🙌
I have had a 4 hour Election since I watched this video!! Who do I call? No Blue Pill Taken! 😂😂😂
Yikes!!! 😱🤣🤣
My first pro board was a Psycho Stik Mini
Awesome! That Psycho Stick is so classic!!! 🙌
Matt do you follow 80s Life on TH-cam? He just did a Bones Brigade Video Show filming locations video, definitely worth checking out
I do watch his videos from time to time. He’s awesome! I have that one on my list, but I haven’t watched it yet. There’s so much good stuff on TH-cam that I get backlogged 🤣 Glad to hear it’s good! Hope to get to it later this week. 👊
This dude needs the pink&white performer GT in here
Matt’s a Haro guy, but a pink GT Performer would look amazing in there too 👍
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood ohhh man, how about tracker ultralights…. !? I just visited my old skate shop and took the wife. It smelled the same because of the ice rink but was all hockey gear. Sorry just being nostalgic. It’s crazy how 35 years can go by but you still smell and feel it …
@@mikebond5957 Agreed, it’s so interesting how smells can be tied to such stroking memories 👍
Do you guys still meet at Kinetic Park. If so, when?
The Kinetic sessions don’t happen regularly like they used to, but there’s usually at least a couple guys out on the weekends. If you check the St. Louis Old Man Skate Cartel Facebook group, you can see when dudes are meeting up to skate 👍
My goodness, how can I purchase a Slime Balls Shirt ?
Here you go, direct from the manufacturer: nhsskatedirect.com/collections/slime-balls-wheels-t-shirts
are they 1,55$ like in the 80's or they cost as much as a car?😅
Most repop decks are in the $75-$85 range, some more limited ones can be over $100. Not too bad after you consider inflation. But some of the originals from the 80s in good condition can indeed cost thousands apiece.
@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Yeah I was talking about the originals. Seen some sh*t costing 60k somewhere. Also even Tony hawk himself payed someone to get an original board to his "nest collection" a hefty sum and gave him his personal board. Talking about inflation huh?
Can't believe he's got my first deck in this video 🤯🤯🤯
That’s so awesome!!!