Riders : Nils Mindnich, Spencer Whiting, Alex Rodway, Christian Haller, Brandon Davis, Peetu Piironinen & Marco Grigis
Shot on location in Austria, Seven Springs PA & Mt. Hood Meadows OR / Oregon
In honor of the birthday of Miami viking, Joel Meinholz, we put together this new Time Machine edit, showcasing almost 20 years of footage found in the archives here in the TOA office filmed by Josh Stewart. From 1997 to 2014, Joel has worked on 4 video parts with Josh for Static 1, FORE & Friends, Welcome to MIA and Static IV along with Hopps commercials and other projects. This edit features whatever we could dig up from that deep archive.
Inspired by the photography of my good friend Weston Colton and featuring local skaters from the Salt Lake and Utah Valleys, this film was only made possible with the help of countless friends and the support of a beautiful wife. Thank you Weston Colton, Luke Jackson, Wayne Nilsson, Davis Ngarupe, Steve Aaron, Kurt Hale, Andrew Hair, Connor Prady, Zac Eskelsen, Jacob and Katie Schwarz, James Winegar, Brian Grow, Brenan Klain and everyone else who volunteered their time and advice.
Major thanks to the skaters who took the time to come out and believed in the project. Specifically Daniel Roman, Alex Washington, Logan Summers, Chandler Siepert, Matt Winskowski, Matt Bergmann, Levi Faust, and Tyson Bowerbank.
Rich Harbour still has his first business license – purchased for $15 from the city of Seal Beach on June 30, 1962.
He was so young, he had to put his dad’s name on it.
Up the road, at about the same time, the owners of Katin Surf Shop were known for making canvas boat covers. But after a hot-doggin’ surfer walked into the shop to ask for a new kind of surf short, Katin became the go-to place for what we know today as board shorts. (The seamstress who makes the shorts – who has worked there since 1961 – is 86 years old and has no plans to retire.) … More