Oliver & Company

We dropped by a few spots at the trade show for the last day. We just happened to show up at the mega ramp where the demo featured skateboard legends steve caballero and christian hosoi. after the demo, which i will upload videos later, we headed to drop by 5 & a dime to visit jeff who was cleaning shop. We visited next door at alphanumeric to check out the spring/summer/fall clothing. We had lunch at neighborhood which has the best burgers and awesome beer selection. ran into buddy buddy friends on the way back to our coche.

Later in the evening, me and apes went to north county fair and check out the doggies. you have to check out the pet store everytime you go to ncf. there’s always so many cute dogs. i want the english bulldog.

It was pretty much another long day for day 2 of the trade show. ill let the photos tell you about my day…

It was day one of trade show weekend. It is probably the mellow-ist january trade show ever. it seems like its slowly dying out. You dont really see any new brands due to the recession which probably took out a bunch of vendors. And when i talked to a lot of the reps they said they dont even really open any new accounts. its hard opening and holding a shop open during these times. But it was good seeing friends and peeps you only see twice a year.

Willy had some of his boards hooked up with photon lights. even though the thought of lights on your skateboard seem stupid, these actually looked dope. to top that off, willys new birdhouse board on display clearly knocked out all the competition (see below). 

The vans waffle machine was one of the highlights of the day. they made waffles on a stick for everybody. to top it off, the son of the creator of vans was handling the waffle machine. mr van doren. to get from ASR (convention center) to Agenda (civic center) you take the courtesy limo shuttle. on the way there we took the dope hummer limo. And the highly of the Agenda trade show was the free vodka and the obey beanies. 

Afterwards, we had a business dinner at taste of thai. deng i wish i had some of that delicious food right now. and thats pretty much a wrap of day one. 

To kick off the ASR/Agenda Tradeshow weekend, we started it off first on wednesday at the 923 bar in downtown sd. It was a good time to see friends you only see once in a while. The bar actually also has a secret passage way that connects to the old huster bar and grill. I think this bar is nice and all but their beer tap selection sucks.

cheer to the tradeshow weekend and dudefests everywhere on wednesday nights.

I found this video on vimeo hd. it a very nice video. great cinematography.

A Thousand Words from Ted Chung on Vimeo.