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Our main focus at our shop is longboards, so we’ll continue with that again this year. As far as bringing in new brands, we’re pretty happy with our current lineup, but we’re always open to checking out new companies and seeing how they’ll sell in town. Our shop is known for having a pretty amazing selection. Keeping at least 90 different completes in stock is our priority and our personal challenge.
2012marks the 102nd year in business for Jones Bicycles in Long Beach, California. It’s quite a milestone, and one that many retailers would love to achieve. But how is it possible? I asked store manager Ulysses Torres the secret to the shop’s longevity. “It’s location,” he said. “You have to find the right spot. And as long as you know how to run the business nice and tight – then you can have longevity.”
THE NEXT TRADESHOW/GATHERING is in Florenceville, Kentucky at Ollies Skatepark on APRIL 14th It is being organized by a number of folks…including Bud Stratford of the Everything Skateboarding Blog. Read his blog here: http://everythingskateboardingmagazine.blogspot.com. It’s $18 per person to attend…and this gets you boothspace. YES, you read that correctly. There will be a small fee to rent a table and some chairs…but it’s only $18 to be there!
All of us at Never Summer come from a skate/snow/surf background. About seven years ago I started to get into longboarding, and more and more people I knew were longboarding.
ebbie and Ted Evans are all about the “kids.” When a skateboard store was something Jacksonville sorely needed and something the “kids” really wanted, they opened not one but two stores to provide skateboarding equipment and a place for skateboarders to hang out with other skateboarding enthusiasts — Southside Sk8 and Northside Sk8.
DENVER – It’s a little like surfing and a little like snowboarding: It’s longboarding, and Gregg Moss learned how to do it in the latest edition of Where in the Town. Located in Denver, Boardlife has only been open two weeks, but owners John Klutznick and Michael Pisarcik aren’t worried.
