Thrasher Magazine

After a couple of decades in existence, DLXSF has accumulated quite a lot of cool shit—rough sketches for board graphics, the boards themselves and random radness that riders have brought home from the road. And since not all of us can have a private tour of their warehouse, they were kind enough to take a selection of goodies down to Black Long Beach for a lil’ art show. Cardiel was spinnin’ wax, Tommy G and Barbee jammed the guitars and countless sketches, planks and paintings adorned the walls. Hell, they even hauled out the goddamn Cardiel rail and bolted it to the sidewalk out front for you to gawk at while waiting to get into the bar. —Joe Hammeke

Cruised down to Long Beach and met up with the DLXSF crew who were hosting a BBQ and skate jam at Cherry Park—Christian Alexander and Oliver Flores running the double grills

Russo and Brockel—a couple of Robs chillin’

Gage Boyle, back heel over the hydrant. You see his welcome to Spitfire part?!

John Dilorenzo’s got his back with a switch backside flip

Christian Henry slides a front board on DIY quarterpipe version 3.0

Malakai Montes boosts a backside O

and Janthavy Norton slashes backside for all the ladies in the house

Cherry park loc David Reyes, switch crooks pop over

Then Zion came cruisin’ up

Gettin down with a Deluxe dog. I woulda guessed mustard based on the outfit

Two-thousand-sixteen SOTY Kyle Walker threatens to blast Real’s newest pro Jack Olson with this summer’s coolest beverage

Legends in attendance? Yup! Ray Barbee with a smooth (as always) tailslide

Ray and Lance—you can’t stop The Firm

Whose 1942 BSA is this?

It’s Mountain’s. He’s always riding in style but had to leave early to get home before dark. Something about the unreliability of a ’77 year old headlight…

“All of this can be yours if you pick up all the trash”

Oliver Flores and the kids keep it clean

Then it was time to posse up and head over to Black Long Beach

Rollin’ up

David Reyes finishing some signage

K-Walks and the Cardiel rail out in front of Black Long Beach. Jesus, look at that thing

It’s long enough to handle a Friday night line outside of Black

Inside, Sebo Walker checking out decades of classic board graphics

Up-to-the-minute additions to the show—Evan Smith was wearing this shirt just hours before the opening

Two-thousand-thirteen SOTY Ishod Wair knows you gotta bank it on the eight

The bar was soon packed

P-Stone’s board appropriately hung above the TV running all your favorite DLX-affiliated skate videos

Nineteen-ninety-two SOTY John Cardiel handling the turntables for the night

"What up, Neckface?”

Next to the photo of Cardiel grinding the rail was a video explaining how they got it back to the DLXSF warehouse “He didn’t buy it, but he owns it” —Frank Gerwer

Flying Rat skateboards sketches and the Rowan Zorrilla Un-Wanted guest board, all drawn by Sam Davidson

Alien abduction cards by Andy Pitts

Christian Cooper and a couple of Jeff Grosso graphics he drew for Antihero

No mistaking Todd Francis’ legendary Antihero graphics

Grimple Stix artist Lou Barberio and Peter Hewitt trying to figure out where they went wrong

“Yup, that’s me—versatile” —Cody Jacobson

And in case you missed that board graphic in the ’90s you can now get it as a Thrasher T, available at finer skateshops worldwide

Then it was time for Tommy Guerrero and Ray Barbee to do a lil’ guitar session

Pedaling through…

…feeding off each other

Feelin’ it!

The DLXSF art department: Lou Barberio, Jerome McCaskill II, Christian Cooper, Sam Davidson, Andy Pitts, Zach Morrissey and Todd Francis. Thanks again, DLXSF, for always doing cool shit with skateboarding