Another one of those retro things that makes us remember the good old days when things were much simpler. Scans by Jimmy Marketti.

A two-page spread that Ted Newsome did about New York City back in 1998, featuring a pretty sick photo from the other Globe spot, that significantly less people tend to skate. [Click to enlarge].

These are some “lifestyle” photos from a French magazine back in the late 90s. The name of the actual magazine escapes me at the moment, but much like New York rap nowadays, back then it seemed like international markets (i.e. Japan, Europe) were much more psyched on New York skateboarding than the domestic one. Features a young Geo Moya and a young Rodney Torres riding the beloved 7 train.

Pat Smith, wallride transfer in the early days of coverage from the Norkfolk Bank spot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, before people really started going off on it.

The photograph from one of Dill’s final tricks in his Photosynthesis part, on the part of the Brooklyn Banks on the southern side that hardly anybody skates, with good reason. Given the steepness, the rugged runway and the overall unsanitary conditions that would inevitably effect you if you were to fall at this spot, this is one of the few tricks ever filmed here. Other notable ones include Puleo’s line from his Infamous part and Quim Cardona’s wallie from the finale of Transworld’s New York montage from over ten years ago.

Even though this dude looks like The MUSKA in this photo, its rare to see a photo from a Manhattan rail spot that is not the Banks’ nine or ten. This is the long, diagonal rail at the Citigroup Center on Lexington Avenue, and a pretty sick photo, Muska-look-a-like facial expression or not.