R.B. Umali documents 30 years of East Coast crust in “Brick City Kids”

The guy responsible for all the Zoo York videos (and lot more) put together a 7-minute montage of clips that all have one thing in common — the clicking sound of wheels rolling across brick.

I hadn’t thought about it before but brick really is one of the defining experiences of skating on the east coast and NJ Skateshop is celebrating that history through the Brick City collection, a collaboration with Vans and Sayre & Fisher brick company. R.B.’s edit starts — as expected — at the Brooklyn Banks circa 1986 with the entirely unexpected Steve Caballero and then rips through three decades of clips across the Atlantic seaboard. It’s heavy on the mid-90’s Golden Era of NYC skating — tons of OG Zoo and Eastern Exposure cats — but it’s also bound to show you some people you’ve never heard of, clips you haven’t seen (Gino’s switch tailslide at the Con-Ed Banks is new to me and I’m always happy to see Ron Deily footage) and some you might’ve forgotten like Brandon Westgate’s lipslide up the Pyramid Ledges. Basically a skateboarding treasure trove.

If I’m understanding it correctly all the clips are at spots that were built with Sayre & Fisher bricks. Trip out on that.

And, yes, Brick City Kids provide the soundtrack*.

*Or, at least, a third of it.

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