almost famous [pros' family you met]

[shark tits]

jahmal williams' brother usedta live in my town and say hi to whoever was skating and tell us who his brother was.
mike graham's brother was a P & W train cop and busted our balls once for skating a little bank on RR property.
brad staba's mother flagged me down once in cleveland to brag on her son.
ryan gallant's brother bough true east briefly [that happened, right?] and usedta live upstairs from richard and does tattoos.
clyde singleton's dad chatted me up at a soup kitchen in jacksonville.
asides the time i met danny glover at a dennis kucinich rally this is as close to stardom as i've brushed next to. anyone else have similar stories?

[Cooner66]

sam devlin's mom is a crackhead on hastings street

[Morty Seinfeld]

there's some asshole who comes to my local park that brags about having grown up down the street from Clark Hassler

[spool of cord]

Pete Eldridge's dad randomly came down to our skatepark one Saturday last year and told us who he was. It was almost 2nd hand celeb shock...if only Pete had been there!

Also I met Gonz' girlfriend in 2005, hot Russian model, but he was with her so that doesn't really count

[duce duce]

nyjahs mom, I was more stoked meeting his mom than actually meeting nyjah afterwards.

[Bizarro Jerry]

there's some asshole who comes to my local park that brags about having grown up down the street from Clark Hassler

Damn, that's sick.  I've always wanted to see Clark Hassler skate in person, he's one of my favorites.

[shark tits]

those are pretty good especially gonz's gf and eldridge's dad. this one's really stretching it but i was acquainted w/ dune's girlfriend's sister back in the day in SF and she got me a stereo from him.

[Chipper]

Sat next to Stefan Janoskis mom on a flight to Portland. Looked through the few Thrashers I had on me for Stefan ads. A few weeks later she sent me Stefan and Tim O'connor autograph. That was a cool experience.

[Durndle]

back when I went to the University of Oregon they had an Inhabitants premiere on the campus because Silas was from Eugene. I guess he was living there at the time so he was there with his entire family. I sat right next to his mom and made a lot of loud noises during the video. it was neat

[Seamus_McShamebag]

I smoked pot out of an apple with Riley Hawk's dad.

[tom]

I watched the Ed Templeton Epicly Later'd from the door of an urban outfitters in Hollywood next to Deana. Ed was there, too, but she was also there. That same day I ate lunch across from Braydon Szafranskis girlfriend Kelly.

[castillo's curls]

I smoked pot out of an apple with Riley Hawk's dad.

[GAY]

Braydon Szafransky's brother works at the Pharmacy skate shop in Hollywood...I always feel bad for him although that seems kind-of lame of me. He's a really nice fella.

[slutonparade]

I saw Ben Nordberg at Bootsy Bellows on Tuesday night

[Nancy Chin The Manicurist]

Ben Sanchez's son once flagged me and my friends down to tell us that he was Ben Sanchez's son

didn't believe him at first, but he had on him an OG Girl backpack from when the company first started. And for an 8 year old, he seemed to know a lot of stuff.

Referred to all the Chocolate OG's as his uncles (i.e. Uncle Keenan, Uncle Chico, etc.)

[Berky]

I met Danny Supa through Vinny Ponte and Supa stayed at my crib and met my family when he came to Ny.... Before he moved back here.

[weaselhead]

Ben Sanchez's son once flagged me and my friends down to tell us that he was Ben Sanchez's son

didn't believe him at first, but he had on him an OG Girl backpack from when the company first started. And for an 8 year old, he seemed to know a lot of stuff.

Referred to all the Chocolate OG's as his uncles (i.e. Uncle Keenan, Uncle Chico, etc.)

Haha so awesome!

[MOE SYZLAK]

I know a girl who gave Sean Conover a BJ

[gnidraobetaks]

the claim to fame "I used to skate with tony alva" pieces of shit who happen to be everywhere.

[spool of cord]

^hah yeah those guys are literally everywhere too..its like that dogtown movie had a big motion picture distributor or something

[5fowty]

the claim to fame "I used to skate with tony alva" pieces of shit who happen to be everywhere.

lol that train wreck of a human being that walks up and down broadway in SF in bare feet.

"you remind me of a young Tony Alva"
"I used to skate with Tony Alva"

would say this to us every time any of us would see him.

[doublesteveburger]

I dated the younger sister of the girl gator dated before he murdered her best friend.


that was as difficult to write as it is to read but I'm sure it makes sense.

[Noioso]

My friend in high school was Leo Romero's Cousin
My Co-Worker used to date James Kelch's brother
This is not the same thing, but my older cousin supposedly grew up skating with Koston. I am not really sure if I believe it but it was kind of backed by my uncle, who said one time a bunch of famous skaters came over.
My cousin used to live with Anthony Mosley

[Aidan Clarke]

I saw Antonio durao after gino gave him a high five when he switched heelflipped some double, I had to lick his.hand clean.

Brian Clarke was my waiter at this pretty nice restaurant on long island that I took my gf to, he serves up a mean filet mignon.

My friend that I skate with from time to time grew up skating with pops, he refers to him as simply 'anthony' whenever he tells stories about him.

Between yeah right and hot choco, you could run into gino almost anywhere on long island. I saw him everywhere from flushing to riverhead.

Pat rumney used to skate inline one skate park, he's actually my best friend and not todd yuricks.






I've only fabricated one of these stories.

[Early Hokus Pokus]

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the claim to fame "I used to skate with tony alva" pieces of shit who happen to be everywhere.

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lol that train wreck of a human being that walks up and down broadway in SF in bare feet.

"you remind me of a young Tony Alva"
"I used to skate with Tony Alva"

would say this to us every time any of us would see him.

Is that you on your signature? Good style.

[poowizard]

I smoked pot out of an apple with Riley Hawk's dad.

Bwhahahah!

[poowizard]

I was skating a Bowl in Colorado and Mr. Tony Alva was there. My wife was sitting down on the bleachers, and in the middle of the session I looked over and Alva was macking my wife. Hahahahha. I didn't trip out cause he was so damn old it didn't matter. Later, I was talking to my wife, making fun of the entire situation, and she was like, "who was that random old guy trynna talk to me"?

Humor.

[NoComply180]

my science teacher in middle school was flow for variflex and powell for awhile, told me about how pat channita used to 360 flip nosegrind this little flatbar that he had

[spungo]

this girl i rode the bus with in middle school was kevin thatcher's (ex-Thrasher editor) niece.  She gave me a huge stack of stickers.

One day I was skating through an Albertson's parking lot when the bagger boy collecting carts gave me some Jeremy Klein stickers.  He said he was his cousin.  Years later I got the sticker tattooed on my back, then a couple years after that I ran into Mark McKee on Decatur street at Mardi Gras and showed it to him.  I dont' think he was impressed.

[SHARPSHOOTER]

^hah yeah those guys are literally everywhere too..its like that dogtown movie had a big motion picture distributor or something

In Canada every cracked out dude, muscle bound chongo, fat old dad seems to have a story about how they used to skate with Colin McKay. Usually then their tone gets more serious when they talk about Casey or something. I work in a shop and have heard this story 3 times, I've almost laughed at the guys face one time, but he was huge.