Jim Greco - August 2002 Vans ad

The August 2002 Vans ad of Jim's 50-50 on a bank to rail, a spot that's on Sunset Boulevard, I think? Photo shot by Theo Hand. The clip is in Jim's epic Baker 3 part. Seven years later, he would get a photo 5-0-ing the same rail, although I've never seen the clip.

Geoff Rowley - Walnut 21 attempted lipslide

The Vans ad of Geoff's attempted lipslide on the Walnut 21-stair rail, scanned from the September/October 2000 issue of Skateboarder. Photo by Daniel Harold Sturt. You can watch the attempts here.

John Cardiel - Union Square rail

The Vans ad of John Cardiel's legendary 50-50 on the Union Square rail, scanned from the November/December 2000 issue of Skateboarder. No photo credit provided, but maybe Morford?

Geoff Rowley - Frost rail lipslide

Scanned from the September 2003 issue of Skateboarder. Photo most likely shot by Dan Sturt. You can see the clip here.

Geoff Rowley - varial heelflip Santa Monica triple set

An October 2002 Vans ad of Geoff Rowley varial heelflipping the Santa Monica triple set, which was his ender in Sorry. Photo sequence by Burnett. I scanned this from Skateboarder. An iconic trick from an iconic skateboarder.

"That was sketchy" - Geoff Rowley Vans ad

This October 2008 Vans ad of Geoff Rowley frontside 180ing between stacked cargo containers was & is truly shocking to look at. If he came up short on his ollie, he'd probably not get out of there alive. In my opinion, this is still one of the gnarliest things ever done on a skateboard. The clip is here. Photo by Ryan Allan.

Dan Sturt doing the Loop at age 38

The title says it all. Appears in a July 2003 Vans ad for a Geoff Rowley shoe. Photo by Tim Tice. 

Vans Goes Paleo in the Benelux - March 2013 Thrasher tour article

The Vans team took a trip to Belgium and The Netherlands sometime in (most likely) late 2012, which was photographically documented and then written about for a Thrasher tour article by then-Editor At Large Mike Burnett. (Vans filmer Cody Green was also there, as well as TM Jamie Hart). The article is mostly short summaries on how each of the riders were during the trip, such as John Fitzgerald trying a Paleo diet, Jason Dill doing burpees, and how detail-oriented Gilbert Crockett can be. More importantly, there's also a lot of great photos! The Dill slappy 50-50 one is my favorite, and even though I probably couldn't do anything on it, the bank-to-curb that Gilbert bluntslides looks really fun to skate. 

Some shoe ads from the December 2003 Skateboarder

Here are four two-page-spread shoe company ads from the December 2003 Skateboarder issue that I thought were really cool. That's it, that's the entire post.

Stevie Williams for DC
Photo: Blabac

Jamie Thomas for Fallen
Photo: Sturt

John Cardiel for Vans
Photo: Morford

Cairo Foster for Lakai
No photo credit given