Artifacts of the Month

A little bit of Bruce Walker History

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Fox ad.  Dig that 70's cartoon artwork.  Hey, not bad prize money for any era!

Another early Fox ad.  A Who's Who of surfers and skaters. 

OK, you're in an ad with Torger Johnson, Tony Alva, and Brad Logan...hey, if there is ever a skateboard hall of fame this alone just qualified you.

          Remember these two logos?  I do, these were created from the picture of Bruce at Carlsbad (see the Profile page).

From a 1978 issue of Skateboarder focusing on Quivers of the pros.  Here Bruce show his tools of the trade.  (Click on it to enlarge and read.)

Various ads for three of Bruce's top team riders, Mark Lake, Shawn Peddie, and Jim McCall. 

Mark Lake advertisement, probably the most successful single Walker deck of all time.  Dig that funky Freudian shape.

Shawn Peddie advertisement.  Check out Shawn's home made rails out of PVC pipe!  I believe these pics were from the Walker team's California tour in the late 70's.

Jim McCall advertisement.  Probably Bruce's longest all time team member.  Be sure to read Jim's quote in the Profile section, it's "all time".

Bruce coached the USA National Surf Team to (2) World Team Titles, one in 1986 in England and again in 1996 in California. This image is from the 1996 World Surfing Games and is the first trophy in the history of surfing that bears the official Olympic Logo.

A More modern Ocean Avenue logo.  Still notice the Hurricane symbol hasn't left the logo (right on!).  For those of you non Floridians this may not be a familiar symbol.  Most rational people associate this image with fear and flee, to Florida surfers this symbol means waves coming, the biggest and sometimes best we get here in Florida.  A mark of excitement, fun, and thrills of coming surf.

I had to post these pics, being a musician myself I thought these were really cool.  Joseph Kane sent these in.  This is "The Bluse Crew" band, from 1968.  Bruce and his older brother Phil (on guitar), played in this band.  Bruce was taking a break from drumming during these photos but is shown seated with his back to us on the steps.  Note the skateboard on the ground!  Chris Kane on keyboards; Joe Kane (wearing a Hobie t shirt) playing Bruce's sparkle Ludwig drum set.  George Webb on Bass.  They played Byrds, Cream, Hendrix, Doors, etc.  This may very well be the FIRST skate band!