Plebs - OG/ Early 90's Sydney Video

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

is FINALLY up on the tube!!!
I know a lot of other Aussies claim vids like demin soup et. al. are what influenced them the most, but my crew worshipped this vid for a long long time.

some thoughts:
- Gordo! Dude ripped so hard
- Alex Smith was a lot better than his footage here shows, he dropped some serious bangers on the Sydney scene back in the day
- converse one stars trending hard!
- Wade and Ben Cox skating to the beastie boys is divine
- I've easily skated 90% of those spots and it's giving me nostalgia goosebumps
- Theres some footage of all the old tours like Big day Out etc. Good to see heads like Montessi, AP, Salman, Markovich, Kareem and Koston when they were in their prime.
- Shane Wallace, while not an Aussie, had some mean pop and a clean bag of tricks considering when this was released.
- warning: for 90's purists only, quality is still better than the latest Palace vid tho!
- Even spotted some SLAP heads in there skating though I'm not going to name names
- ♪Booty-full, Beautiful♪

[Paul Cicero]

Name names!

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

Name names!

nah it's kinda like the BA situation, if they wanna come out then they're free to do so

[sid vicious]

DELVECHIO LICKING DOG SHIT IN THIS ONE?

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

DELVECHIO LICKING DOG SHIT IN THIS ONE?

yup, 20 bucks mate!
Who's the Italian looking guy with the bleached hair in the thumb nail talking shit on the security guard at World Trade?

[fangen]

I could watch Ben Cox clips all day and i'll always associate him with Lisarow train station for some reason

[quaintly]

Who's the Italian looking guy with the bleached hair in the thumb nail talking shit on the security guard at World Trade?
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thats steve rose.

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

I could watch Ben Cox clips all day and i'll always associate him with Lisarow train station for some reason

you and I would get on then. Got any good Ben stories?

thats steve rose.

hmmmm I knew, or at least knew of, pretty much everyone in that vid but I don't remember him...

[OldieButFrenchie]

not an ozzie obviously but I spent 3 months in sydney in 99 so I'm curious to see this! Merci.

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

not an ozzie obviously but I spent 3 months in sydney in 99 so I'm curious to see this! Merci.

you'll recognize a lot of the spots then. Manly bowl is way to fresh when this came out though, the only real graffiti there was Wade's PIST piece in the back corner. Did you ever skate Manly bowl Frenchie? It was my local for years

[OldieButFrenchie]

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not an ozzie obviously but I spent 3 months in sydney in 99 so I'm curious to see this! Merci.

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you'll recognize a lot of the spots then. Manly bowl is way to fresh when this came out though, the only real graffiti there was Wade's PIST piece in the back corner. Did you ever skate Manly bowl Frenchie? It was my local for years

yeah I did! just once though. it's crazy to think I considered it a nice spot back then......the new parks make the old ones look like shit!

I remember the wood mini ramp at Bondi surprised me too, that thing was super steep. Actually my favorite spot in Oz might have been in Melbourne....(sorry!). That smallish double bowl in a park, can't remember the name, I think it's gone now.

[Burt Ward]

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not an ozzie obviously but I spent 3 months in sydney in 99 so I'm curious to see this! Merci.

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you'll recognize a lot of the spots then. Manly bowl is way to fresh when this came out though, the only real graffiti there was Wade's PIST piece in the back corner. Did you ever skate Manly bowl Frenchie? It was my local for years

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yeah I did! just once though. it's crazy to think I considered it a nice spot back then......the new parks make the old ones look like shit!

I remember the wood mini ramp at Bondi surprised me too, that thing was super steep. Actually my favorite spot in Oz might have been in Melbourne....(sorry!). That smallish double bowl in a park, can't remember the name, I think it's gone now.

That'd be Fitzroy bowl. Still going strong.

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not an ozzie obviously but I spent 3 months in sydney in 99 so I'm curious to see this! Merci.

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you'll recognize a lot of the spots then. Manly bowl is way to fresh when this came out though, the only real graffiti there was Wade's PIST piece in the back corner. Did you ever skate Manly bowl Frenchie? It was my local for years

Pretty sure Sean gall did that pist piece.

[OldieButFrenchie]

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not an ozzie obviously but I spent 3 months in sydney in 99 so I'm curious to see this! Merci.

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you'll recognize a lot of the spots then. Manly bowl is way to fresh when this came out though, the only real graffiti there was Wade's PIST piece in the back corner. Did you ever skate Manly bowl Frenchie? It was my local for years

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yeah I did! just once though. it's crazy to think I considered it a nice spot back then......the new parks make the old ones look like shit!

I remember the wood mini ramp at Bondi surprised me too, that thing was super steep. Actually my favorite spot in Oz might have been in Melbourne....(sorry!). That smallish double bowl in a park, can't remember the name, I think it's gone now.

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That'd be Fitzroy bowl. Still going strong.

yeah Fitzroy that was it! super fun little spot

[Dr-Feelgood]

ahhhh that was sick, ive skated most the sydney spots, my weekends growing up were spent skating either cook and phil cathedral, martin place, warming up at hyde park and usually ending with some beers at chifley. Makes me miss it, havent been back to home for 3 years now.

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

it's crazy to think I considered it a nice spot back then......the new parks make the old ones look like shit!

hahaha they redid the front part of it a few years back now which gave it a lot more flow but yeah, there's fucking amazing parks all over Australia now. Back in the day though pretty much every o/s tour would do a demo at Manly if they were going to be Sydney.

Pretty sure Sean gall did that pist piece.

fuck quaintly, you sure know your skate history. It may well have been, I just assumed it was Wade because it was his brand and I'd seen him a couple times there doing graffiti while he was skating. Wade used to fucking MURDER that place!!! Then again so many OG Manly heads (Peanut/ Donald etc.) used to kill it on the regular too! You remember when Lee Springett (sp?) used to just ollie up the funbox off of flatground for shits and giggles?

[Paul Cicero]

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it's crazy to think I considered it a nice spot back then......the new parks make the old ones look like shit!

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hahaha they redid the front part of it a few years back now which gave it a lot more flow but yeah, there's fucking amazing parks all over Australia now. Back in the day though pretty much every o/s tour would do a demo at Manly if they were going to be Sydney.

They just painted it. It's still rough as guts

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

They just painted it. It's still rough as guts

no, they extended it (on the parking lot side with a big flat bank and also connected the quarter on the right-hand side) probably a little over 10 years ago and it made it infinitely better in terms of getting some actual speed/ lines. In plebs-era after you hit the rail, you rolled into the sketchy carpark, now there is a huge flat bank there. Any old Manly local will be able to verify this, or you could just look at old vs. new footage.
I don't really want to link scooter vid on here but if you youtube Keirle Park Manly you'll see what I mean. Looks like it also may have gotten yet another facelift fairly recently but I haven't lived in that area since 2008.

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If you want rough as guts parks go to St Leonards (or Avalon before it was resurfaced) but that's not what this thread is for! Spread that mid-90s Aussie skate love Suit!

[The Drew]

just watched it a little bit of this (at work)

is that a mini Michael with the last part?

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

is that a mini Michael with the last part?

It sure is! Dropping lines like a full-grown adult. Dude could get mad tech and yet still do massive hammers

[OldieButFrenchie]

hey is that the redfern skatepark at 8'50 ? with that metal vert/middle ramp?

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

hey is that the redfern skatepark at 8'50 ? with that metal vert/middle ramp?

I don't recognize it and I'm not even sure Redfern had a park in the 90's (at least not that I'm aware of).
Maybe it's the early incarnation of Newcastle? apparently it is...

[G raham]

Old chatswood 
All of it really. Live in fairlight now so manly is my local but grew up in chatswood. Started skating a few years after all this tho but definitely appreciate seeing spots in their earlier form/that are now gone completely

[quaintly]

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hey is that the redfern skatepark at 8'50 ? with that metal vert/middle ramp?

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I don't recognize it and I'm not even sure Redfern had a park in the 90's (at least not that I'm aware of).
Maybe it's the early incarnation of Newcastle?

You don't remember old Redfern ?

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

Old chatswood 

those were the days huh? Isn't that brick hip at some church of scientology or something? Definitely a lot harder to skate than it looks. Chatswood now has one of the worst parks in Sydney that shit was so lumpy/ badly designed ... still not as bad as St Ives though

You don't remember old Redfern ?

I don't, I think the furthest "west" I ever went was central station records LOL but mostly stuck to Chatty and the CBD. Honestly Redfern was pretty sketch back then ...

[Dr-Feelgood]

Redfern is still kinda sketch.

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

Redfern is still kinda sketch.

I used to do one of my subjects at high school through the open high school when it was still in Redfern, place was mad sketchy for a white 15 year old in the mid 90s. One time I went we had to use a makeshift classroom because someone had burnt down the building we sued to study in!

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

ahhhh that was sick, ive skated most the sydney spots, my weekends growing up were spent skating either cook and phil cathedral, martin place, warming up at hyde park and usually ending with some beers at chifley. Makes me miss it, havent been back to home for 3 years now.

I also missed this post Dr. Yeah, I miss Sydney a lot these days too, haven't been back in nearly 10 years now. Did you used to skate world trade too, or was it before your time?
White marble ledges out the back of Wynard station was such a magic spot too.
It's funny, but someone from Melbourne was commenting on how dead the CBDs were back in the day and it's so true; now the city's are packed even on Sundays

[OldieButFrenchie]

yeah I do remember Redfern as pretty ghetto-ish....the only place like that I saw in Oz I think.

Fun fact: on my first day in Sydney, I thought ok, I'll just skate from downtown to Bondi, so I get to know the city a bit. I had no idea the distances were so big! I was used to skating everywhere in Paris but in Sydney....nope. Think I ended up taking the bus!

[colt cannon lunchbox]

It's funny to watch this to see how little skateboarding has changed over all these years.

I was skating the post office steps in Newcastle wearing one stars just over a year ago (was there lots of homeless people living there in the 90s also?)