The Obstacade was held on the tennis courts of the old Dunbar High School in 1989 if memory serves me well. The contest was sponsored by S&E Shirts and Mr. Cable shelled out the Balzout Bucks to build the ramps. We built the ramps in Ernie's garage in Cross Lanes and somehow they got to Dunbar. After the contest the ramps were transported to the parking lot of the Dunbar Recreation Center where they were skated until they were crushed by 4x4 trucks which was not an uncommon occurrence back then. The first pics are of Jamie C busting an ollie to fakie and a nice b/s air. The air to tail is courtesy of Josh and the last one is an early snap of Ernie and Marc about to throw down. Marc looks to be going for the b/s air on the quarter pipe while Ernesto opted to f/s boneless on the bank ramp. That was a fun contest and it was attended by skaters from Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. I think I shot these with a Kodak 110 camera sans flash cubes.
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Cool pics.Your right, That was an H Street Deck.
Drake was there to represent Iguana Skateshop. This was a few years before he went pro for Alien Workshop.
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