NBDs filmed on an iPhone became fair game for public consumption five seconds after they were landed, and the internet evolved into a daily vomitorium of skate footage. Since then, the kid who did the hook on “Bling Bling” said he was the best rapper alive and a bunch of shit changed.
was an east coast video magazine produced by Zoo York that never lived past four issues (QS ran an appreciation post of it six years ago in real years, 600 years ago in internet years.) It occupied a middle ground between the videos that hoarded footage for three years and Metrospective/OfficialNewYork. You probably have to be of a certain age to appreciate the necessary bits of impending nostalgia, BUT in the early 2000s, the footage hierarchy went something like: 1) board + shoe company videos, 2) every other company video + video magazines, 3) the internet. With short term memory growing shorter thanks to G-Pens, do we accept Challex’s or the Vickie Report’s tailslide as existing in a world where J-John the Don didn’t already do it switch and German? Do we disregard Todd Jordan’s back tail that went down during the much-maligned Mixtape 2 era? (Can’t find the photo but it’s ~out there~) Will an early-2000s nostalgist perform a noseslide bigspin on the ledge this #nyfw, disregarding Brian Brown’s contribution to the ledge’s storied history?Īctually none of this probably matters because Antonio switch frontside 5050ed a ledge that is nine times higher than the Pace Ledge like five blocks away ) Now, this brings about the age old question for nitpicky filmer types: has the ABD scroll been erased after a dormant decade? After filling in the aforementioned cavity, the Pace Ledge is ripe for skateboard tricks for the first time since the George W. With the vapor of early-2000s nostalgia from February fashion week still running thick, today we are reminded of the magic that a bit of Bondo could do. Little kid dreams were crushed (we even removed it from the spots page!), and by then, everyone was eyeing tricks into the Verizon Banks anyway, or just generally better at skating. That is, until it was dismantled by bike pegs and rendered unskateable thanks to a six-inch-wide chunk at the ledge’s most opportune starting point. We’d pass it every weekend - dreaming of a noseslide if we were regular or a 5050 if we were goofy for the hammers section of whoever’s bad video filmed on a Canon GL1 with a Kenko fisheye. That day, I also discovered hentai, but that's a story for another day kids.In the early 2000s, a trick on the Pace Ledge was a watershed moment for any child’s skate career. Place was a legit god tier fapper's sanctuary. They even had a "space available" sign on a window.
#Early 2000s nostalgia windows#
For years, I always thought the place next door was just a vacant commercial property, nope, it was the porn section but you'd never know it because it was totally sealed up and hidden from the outside, the windows covered by paper and you couldn't even see light shining. It was easily 2-3 times bigger than the rest of the store. As I slowly pulled the curtain to the side, I became struck with awe at how fucking massive the adult section was. Anyway, when I turned 18, I said fuck it, let me walk behind that little curtain and see wtf is in there. The video store was small, with usually nobody in the non-porn section lol. During the late night hours a barrage of men would walk behind that curtain and walk out with stacks of porn to rent, it was nuts, literally the busiest time you'd see at the rental counter. It was then that I learned that place stayed alive because of its porn clientele.
The place would be open pretty late at night and as I got into my late teens, it wouldn't be uncommon for my friends and I to be there past midnight on weekends playing fighting games.
Right by the anime section they had this little curtain that went into the adult section. Lot's of young people would hang out there and I was there pretty much daily dropping quarters into that arcade. They also had a small arcade with all the good fighting games like Marvel vs Capcom, Tekken and Street Fighter. I used to frequent this old video store in my hometown back in the 90s because they had a pretty large collection of anime when very few people even knew what anime was. I posted this story on r/nostalgia last week when somebody brought up the 18+ section of video stores: