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Brewce dusting off the collection

Brewce's Mission:  To build the most amazing skateboard facility and Museum for people to visit and enjoy for free.  While free is great he still needs people to donate, either through work, cash, buying video's, shirts, pretty much anything to make this vision a reality.  

Back some years ago, a boy name Brewce had a paper route, turns out that there was a paper delivering contest of some sort a brewing, 3 lucky winners would win brand new skateboards, Brewce was one of the winners.  Ever since then Brewce has been committed to skateboarding.

Brewce's collection contains in the neighborhood of 1800 decks, some in excellent condition, some not.  But an extremely wide swath of the skateboard history is in the collection.  Sorry, no Lonnie Toft 8 wheeler yet.

The collection is usually found on the premises of Skatopia, somewhat of a haven for gnarly wayward skateboarders.  Certainly worth a drive just to look at, of course you have to frontside grind the deep end of the left handed epcot bean when you visit.

You'll find everything from flexy fiberglass boards, alluminum slalom boards, a thing called a Skatewing (skateboard with wings), to article's and books that talk about skateboarding.  People are encouraged to donate old skateboard equipment, as nothing is ever sold from the collection, and I pity any fool that would try to take from the collection, "it's not the wide easy path that is may seem to be, that path has big problems".


In Cleveland, the 1300 Gallery is displaying about 100 of Brewce's collection for the month of may, the collection looks really nice on clean white Gallery walls.  To get the full effect of the collection though, it is recommended that you go to the source, "Skatopia"!


Hey hey it's the CIA.  Empty your pockets, lets build some of the wildest concrete around.  Come check out the boards and the Skatopian community.


Here's a prize.  CIA real eyes realize real lies signed by Tony Hawk, Donny Barley, Jason Ellis, and Bam Margera when Viva La Bam showed up and filmed part of an episode, prompting Tony Hawk to include Skatopia as a level in Thug II.


Sampling of the old wood


A cross section of Z-flex etc...


I particularly like the Voodoo board

Some fiberglass and aluminum examples

The collection has a little of everything, nothing is too weird except a board with inline things bolted to the bottom, though one was destroyed in Louisville at the grand opening.

A few of the Sims boards.  I wonder if you are looking at any of these board saying to yourself, I had one of those, or that was the first board I had.  Well, looks like Brewce ended up with one of them, looks like 2 Andrects as well.
Plastic fantastics.  The collection has all kinds of skateboards, the plastic ones on the wall were very popular in the mid 70's, as were wood and fiberglass.  Everybody was trying to come up with the newest, cheapest, strongest materials.  There's even scooters (old school) in the collection.  Weird wild stuff!



You can find a few Skull Skates boards in the collection, some with the tub tech concave.
A few Santa Cruz Duane Peters boards are also in the collection along with a bunch of other boards.

 


Brewce opened up the Museum for a little while during the Fall Party 05.
Some late 70's boards, some are just pain old WIDE.

What collection would be complete without a pile of SCUM?
Run out of wall space?  Just strap them to the ceiling.  

SKATEWING, I just don't know what to say about the SKATEWING.  It's got 6 wheels and wings, I guess it's like an outrigger.

 

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