Chucky Barfoot

[Russell]

Classic article on Chucky at independent.com. Sims was the instigator of our skate culture on Mountain Drive and the infamous T Bowl.

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Barefoot is great. Around 1980 he stoked me and a buddy out on a prototype snowboard letting us take it to mammoth. We could not go on the mountain but crawling around the hills in town we got a taste and now...

[carpjaws]

the heyday of the " the ___ gardens", i am trying to dust off the memories; winding through the oaks, bringing the brooms, the promenade with arch or columns and the sandstone blocks?...some days in the santa barbara summer above the beach fog lazin' before chasing the afternoon windswell from stanley's, sharks, the mesa and maybe trippin' up to haskell's to slide into the goleta beach scene...is it fondnes or the real thing...help this feral boar's memory...oh yeah chuck was avant guard, way back to the tahoe dayz with some of the la conchita gang, thanks for the tip russell. i don't always pick up an independent, like in old days when it was the counter culture rag of choice...

http://independent.com/news/2008/mar/06/barfoot-snowboards-turns-30/

[shamgod]

http://independent.com/news/2008/mar/06/barfoot-snowboards-turns-30/

How many surfshops are left in SB now? I don't count that Starbucks/Ripcurl outlet on State.

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This was this board.

[carpjaws]

AVANT GUARD...is the set for that pic the tracks behind hammonds?

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It was the train tracks on upper State street where it turns into Hollister where John Perry's Ocean Rhythms Surfboards used to be...

[carpjaws]

hope ranch annex...by the way, whatever happen to paul kuhn?

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Paul is still in town with his wife and kids.

[JonS]

Classic Shot.

[LettesumBrits]

This house was cool, but, even though Ive been through a few times, I havent seen the barrel of monkeys. Is that the scene with the gorilla, or is it somewhere else? I love the nursery/ female doll room, and the commando Chucky/toy soldier room.