Growing up in the SFV (North LA) area there are too many but one of the cooler dudes is Torey Pudwill's dad (Mark if I recall correctly). When Tory was about 7 or 8 for a short time I put him on flow for a little company I was TM for called ShtAss. Always liked chatting it up with Mark at SkateLab and recall saying initially that "he (Torey) will go far, like 'Tony Hawk successful' (something non-skaters can understand) if he sticks with skating." He was just a super cool and mellow dude, not a Nyjah or Sheckler'esque 'skate-dad.'
Went to junior high with Jeron Wilson. One of the nicest kids ever. Borrowed his NES Double Dragon cartridge one time and the school year ended so I kept it all summer.
Used to run into Weston Correa a lot, we both did solo night sessions around Reseda all the time when we were like 15. Also a really nice kid.
There was the little Mexican kid named Paul with a pony-tail down to his ass who was on the grom squad for the shop I rode for. I remember watching his skate a flat at outside the shop and it made me feel like I sucked and realized I had no future in skating. Now he's in Mountain Dew commercials, has a pro shoe for Nike SB, and I think he skates for some little company called Plan B or something. Unfortunately never got to meet his dad, which would've been sick being he starred in classic films like A Million to Juan and Born in East LA.
In rehab I met this guy who thought he was really cool because he claimed his cousin was Tony Tave...
The skate world is a small