Welcome to SAUCE #011 Better late than never, right? Well it’s been a busy last 6 months and well, I have been slacking a bit on the SAUCE. But nevertheless, its finally done! What we have here is another fine issue filled with all kinds of neat stuff about skateboarding. Inside you’ll find plenty of stuff on DIY (get out there and build something for your city), A few words about the sickest city for street skating, San Francisco. Checking in with the folks up in Glacier, Washington at “The Coal Pad”, A crew review with the fellas down south at “Trife Street” , an artist spotlight with Joel Kelley, and a special treat; words with everyones favorite leprechaun, Jamie Weller! While checking out this issue, please keep in mind that SAUCE is a self funding publication that relies on you, the reader, to keep alive and well. Please check out the SAUCE store and pick up any of the skater made items. All money goes to support future issues of SAUCE skateboard zine. Cheers!
Pictured on the cover: Jamie Weller Ollies up to Smith in Hood River, Oregon -Pod Photo-
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See You In St. Louis Words and Photos by El Sketcho If you weren't at Burnside on Halloween then you missed a party of epic proportions. I'm not going to tell you how epic because if you weren't there then you should have been. I heard numbers of around 500 people had filtered through throughout the day. And why? It was the park's twentieth birthday celebration. And from Mama B's original days to her current ways comes the birthing of many DIY bridge projects. The latest... The King's Highway Project in St. Louis, Missouri. So being from that neck of the woods and going back to visit family, I had to get ahold of an old friend in St. Louis to get the lowdown. Now, before I go any further into telling you about the facts of the project, I gotta clue you in to the fact that I like my flights to be smooth. That means bring your own grub because pretzels and peanuts don't cut it. For this trip Chef Sketcho brought a fat salami and sauerkraut sandwich (with Humboldt Hotsauce) and three huge slices of pizza. Another quick travel tip is that if you're flying out of PDX head to terminal C, there is a Rogue brewpub there that will fill a growler of beer for you to take on your flight. Yup, you heard it here first; get an empty growler through security then get it filled before you get on your flight. As long as the passenger next to you is cool, you'll be singing with Ozzy "Flying High Again". And after I ate the brownies I snuck on, I could have swore I saw Randy Rhoads playing guitar on the wing. It was midnight when I finally landed in St. Louis and, once grounded, was swooped up by Pat Ritchie who was fresh from Afghanistan where he was volunteering to help kids learn to skate. Bomb hills not countries, bro. Midnight at the King’s Highway Bridge Project is pretty dark so skating was out of the question. That gave Pat the time to catch me up to speed on a little history of the bridge. I should give you a quick reminder that this is St. Louis, where you practically need a permit to get a building permit. So when I found out that the only reason the city was bummed was because the kids who started building down there didn't have hard hats, I was kind of blown away. So you might be asking "Hard hats at a DIY bridge project"?
Well, the bridge is over a hundred years old and is in such a state of disrepair that there are pieces of the bridge in parts of the park. And even though there aren't any hardhat Nazis running around, just be aware that if you get hit in the head by something while skating, it's probably not one of your friends being a fucktard. The park itself is shaping up to be a pretty gnarly work in progress that the KHVT crew is proud of. The community is also pretty hyped, given that over a thousand dollars was raised at a benefit art show that went down while I was there. But skateboarders aren't the only ones that skate and destroy to create. One reason the city of St. Louis is cool with all of this is because the bridge itself will need to be rebuilt. Which brings us to the conundrum of why invest time, money, labor and love into something so fleeting? Because the bridge will eventually be rebuilt and there are always bigger fish to fry. KHVT was formed knowing that time is short, there are already skater's-eyeing spots around the city to keep the DIY tradition alive. And even though this particular phase of the King's Highway Project won't be around for twenty years like Burnside, the spark that it ignited in the St. Louis skate scene will burn on. And if you do find yourself in St. Louis, make sure to give the KHVT crew a hand and they may take you out to Herman's Hole. You'll be stoked! For location and donation information visit www.khvt.org.
Brian Werner drops into a nose blunt and rolls away clean. KHVT Por Vida or until the bridge falls
Skateboarding in San Francisco is pretty much the best kind of city skating where you can just grab your board and hit the streets all day. Most of the time we will only have a general idea of spots for photo missions but it’s almost more satisfying to skate shit that pops up along the way. You know the feeling, a little loose from a few brewskies and maybe bombing hills downtown or playing in traffic with theme from taxi driver on the iPod. Just fuck’n shredding. It never gets old and the lax attitude towards the “grass” isn’t bad either. City lights, beautiful women, perfect weather (a little wet in the winter, but fuck it), and of course the hills. The list goes on. Enjoy the photos and do like Eric Burden says, save up all your bread and come to S.F. It will be worth it. See you on 24th St. -Atwood Abbass ollie to nose manual
Andrew Norris Ollies an S.F. rail
-Atwood
Aaron Harrington
B/S Tailslide
-Atwood
Fairies In Kanis Park Oby Berry
There are fairies lurking in Kanis Park.
They chase one another from dawn to dark. I know you have skated some strange places.
But have you ever noticed so many KIA’s backed into parking spaces? In the back you will find a bowl.
Many a shredder has slashed that hole. Homeless people live in the sticks.
We watch the fairies chase after their………. food…hahahaha! Now back to the sophomoric rhyming tricks.
Construction on a skatanic track began in 2006. A bunch a hands, a mixer, a d.i.y. death trap
We mix that “mud?” screaming “sk8 or nap!” When you notice the graffiti, don’t be alarmed.
“They gett’n they shine on!” and we are well armed... At the end of the day we are dead, tired, and dirty Girls at the bar say, “you guys are over thirty?” Look at your hands you gots mud blisters
WE are Arkansans but we don’t marry our sisters So come on down and shred like a park shark
But you must remember…..there are fairies lurking in Kanis Park.
“You either have or you don’t” words by Kim Cook Photography J. Whitten
Short shorts and boardslides. Now thats TRIFE
There’s a crew in Memphis called Trife Street. I met a couple of the guys around the time the skatepark opened here in Oxford, Mississippi. A lot has changed in the past few years. They’ve gotten older, have travelled to much better scenes, met a lot of rad people, gotten sponsored. Some have even moved away. But the one thing that’s stayed the same is that their lives still revolve around skateboarding. Oh and being broke - none of them have managed to hit the jackpot yet. Something most of us know about… straight up not enough money in your pocket to make that annual trip to Kona…so what do you do? Rally a crew and hit the road with a few dollars for gasoline and “food” (or something resembling it) for the weekend. So if you haven’t figured it out by now, this is about to be a crew review on Trife Street. I sent Taylor a few questions and learned quite a bit…
Kim - Tell me, who is Trife Street - who originated it, the core crew. You mentioned “the four of you”. You mean you, Binger, Hammond, and Bambei? Taylor - The original Trife Crew was Joseph, Brad, Anthony, and me. The crew started small but quickly grew as the “trip” went on. Now, anyone who lurks around the house regularly, neighbors, the crew, most of the Memphis kids. Anyone who is down to party and slash is with it for sure.
Hammon Smith grinds with a Trife tailgrab in Jonesboro
When did Trife Street get conceived? I know you mentioned something about “in a car”. We were planning an annual trip to Kona. I hadn’t worked in over three months due to a broken leg and had no money, so I wasn’t going to make it. I had gone with Joseph the year before and he was for sure going to make it back. He got a car full of people together, including me, who had no money. He said he was going so we should just hop in. Everyone was going on a trip for a few days with like a thirteen dollar budget. Trip mentioned that this trip was about to be trife as shit when we were packing
up and that became the word of the weekend. The crew just sort of spawned out of that. What is “Trife Street” about, as in, what is your objective as a crew, your common goals, motives, dreams and aspirations…? As far as the crew is concerned, I don’t think there is any sort of master plan or anything. We basically just want to do what we like, which is skate, build, and travel. There is no sort of plan to recruit minions or whatever, although the vibe tends to spread. We all sort of have the same attitude toward things and that’s basically skate and party and always have fun. The main thing is that while sometimes you are on the top, mostly you will be on the bottom, just make sure to have fun with your friends. Where is Trife Street located, no need to give exact address, unless you want to? In Hell, across the street from Sonya. Basically Trife Street is a nomadic location so it can just be wherever. It was in another place before the place today, and once at Skatopia. It hits the road regularly and never leaves the couch like all the time. Who is Sonya and is she Trife? Sonya is the crazy meth lady that lives across the street from me. She’s always having some sort of Jerry Springer style issue going on in her front yard. Fighting and yelling is something that is always going on. She is more trifeling than trife I would say, although I’m pretty sure she has been known to prostitute for the rent and beg for money under a bridge, which is pretty fucking trife. Why “Trife” Street? You know that word is like “totally” popular right now in the skateboard world of companies and such… There isn’t much consideration put into being broke. You either have or you don’t. Trife Street is Trife Street because this shit isn’t about having money or being comfortable. I don’t care where I have to sleep to get to where I want to be. As far as popularity is concerned, obviously we aren’t the first to say that word, but we are for sure living it. When you don’t eat
anything legit for a week so you can hit the road to skate, or build something new to skate down the street that will only last a month - that’s TRIFE. Just get out there and shred! Who is the most trife person you've ever met? Thats a tough one really. I went to skatopia and saw some pretty trife fools there. I’ve seen Binger be super trife for years now. Hammond saves half drank beast ice for a couple of days and drinks it later, that’s pretty trife I suppose. My buddy Charlie is kicking it on trife status for sure. He hops trains around the country and showed me how to dig in trash cans at produce stores for still good vegetables. He never pays for anything. Sleezy Steve is pretty trife sometimes too. Alright, that about concludes this crew review. Basically, to sum things up, they are down to skate and have a good time wherever they might be. Check out some more pics and stories about the crew on the following blogs… unless you’re so trife you ain’t got internet, then you’re just stuck reading this zine, oh snap! http://trifestreet.blogspot.com/
Jack Trife Disaster, Trife Dog, and Trife Doll
-PodBinger living Trife up in the great North West. Trife Tailblock Forks, Washington
“If you want things done right, youʼve got to Do It Yourself!” Skaters have been embracing that idea for years now and most notably the skaters of Portland, Oregon have been doing it hardcore for over 20 years now. Sure, we all have been doing the DIY thang for most of our skateboarding lives with the building of wooden launch ramps, mini backyard ramps, abandoned warehouse spots, ect.......But itʼs the fellas here in Portland who really took it to the next level by using concrete to build a more solid and permanent skate spot. Around 1988-1990 the skaters of Portland started experimenting the uses of concrete under the Burnside Bridge by piling it up against the back slanted wall to make the spot more ridable. As the learning curve for the use of concrete grew, so did the spot under the bridge. At some point during the early 90ʼs the spot was being called a “Skatepark” by some of the locals and the concrete kept growing and growing into what is now known as “The Burnside Skatepark”. Built without permission, no plans, and little money, Burnside is credited for being the “Grand Daddy of DIY spots”. Since the early 90s the creative DIY attitude has spread like a wildfire with spots popping up all over the place. Spots like FDR in Philly, Washington St in San Diego, San Pedro, Boardertown in Oakland, and Marginal Way in Seattle are all in direct relation with Burnside and the whole DIY culture. But it doesn't stop with just building spots under bridges. It goes beyond that with smaller spots being built anywhere and everywhere. Anything from a single bag of ʻcrete to full trucks are being used to transform useless areas into skateable fun places to ride. Building a spot is almost as much fun as skating the new spot. The hunt for a spot in the late hours of the night while most people sleep is an adventure that only skaters can get stoked on, and building it in the darkness with only the corner street light to help you see is a priceless adventure! Skating the spot the next afternoon is the prize and hoping that the spot will last some time is the gamble. Some spots get demoed within days and others become permanent parts of the cityscape. Some spots are completely built in renegade fashion while others are built with permission and support from the local community. However the spot comes to be, it is ALWAYS built by a skater in a DIY fashion. Why sit around and wait for the city to build something for you?
-Pod-
Xander Dunlap B/S Hurricane at the Mother of D.I.Y. spots. Burnside, Oregon
Most of the time itʼs not gonna happen and if it does, there is a great chance itʼll suck due to the inexperience of professional contractors. Skaters know what we want so we build what we want. With the success of the Burnside project came the 2nd generation of the skatepark boom and skater-owned and operated design and build companies like “Dreamland” and “Grindline” both born in the Northwest USA. -Pod-
Jamie Weller and friends mixing it up and laying it down
Oh, and DIY doesn't stop at just building skate spots and parks but also goes far into the industry of skateboard manufacturing. Steve Rocco paved the way for skater-owned and operated companies with SMA and World Industries back in the late 80ʼs and early 90ʼs. He proved to the skate world that skaters could take their destiny into their own hands by manufacturing, distributing, and retailing skateboards and actually making a living at it successfully without the help of any outsiders (especially those who don't skate). Shortly after the Burnside project was recognized, a new skater-owned company was also born in the northwest, M&M Skateboards. “We just wanted to make boards so we didnʼt have to buy them anymore. You know, we wanted free boards man,” says Mick Loew of Portlandʼs M&M Skateboards. The skate board company started by the same group of skaters who built Burnside has proven to be a success! M&M Skateboards was started in 1999 by the fellas and is operated by using presses that were built from scratch in a couple of random basements here in the city. And since the “Good Olʼ Days” of 1999 the company has had its ups and downs
and continues to grow and thrive from the hard work of skaters. Team riders also include Sage Bolyard and Mark “Red” Scott, who are not only ripping skaters from the Northwest but also are responsible for the building of Burnside and founding of Dreamland Skateparks. These are the guys who are helping to build sick parks all over the world! For skaters by skaters! Itʼs a GO! Skate media has also been taken into the hands of the skaters! Video production, Magazines, and smaller skate zines like Balance in Philly, Typical Culture in San Diego, Fuknoath Australia, LOWCARD in S.F., SAUCE skateboard zine in Portland, Pink Crack in North Carolina, Born Ugly in Virginia, Pool Dust in Seattle / Arizona, Shark Bait in Oklahoma, along with many many more. Zines have always been a DIY staple in skateboardingʼs history. Sure weʼve got the big mags like Thrasher and The Skateboard Mag, and they are a sick representation of skateboarding as a whole, but you also have each skate communityʼs local DIY zine guy that represents the local skate scenes. You know, they guys and gals who are ripping in the dirty ditches, pools, parks, and streets on the “Who gives a fuck level.” Skate zines represent skateboarding in its rawest form. Zines wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't for the big guns like Thrasher who inspire us to DIY. Skateboarding is fueled by creativity and the motivation to take control of our own destiny and make shit happen now. Not tomorrow and not by some goon who is cashing in to make a buck off of us. Fuck that! No thanks, weʼll do it ourselves. DIY Fool!! What have you done for your city lately?!
-Pod-
Brice Neibuhr hucks up a huge F/S/A at Seattleʼs growing DIY spot, Marginal Way
Josh Falk Nose Picks the new Burnside Jersey Barrior
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He’s back and hungrier than ever. Kenny Ufford Hip to bump ollie Burnside, OR
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BSTS
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Hot Carl Campbell throws up a B/S Nose Grind on the tightest wall at Goodyear, AZ
-Pod-
Bandon McDonough uses his quick legs to ollie up and kickflip up and over. Portland, OR
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