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The Skate Shop Will Never Die

Let Skateshop Day 2026 compel you to embrace the concept of “leaving the house” next time you need something.

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When I was a spotty teenager growing up in South Wales in the 2000s, I spent my Saturdays doing spotty teenager things: slopping my enormous jeans around Cardiff city center, pouring five-finger-discounted bubble bath into the fountains outside City Hall, and drifting in and out of the skate shop in town where my friends would occasionally buy wax to help them grind the Brutalist concrete of the Welsh government HQ while I eyed up my next pair of Bernys. That’s also the first place I encountered VICE magazine, stacked for free next to issues of Thrasher and Sidewalk. That is, I imagine, the first place many people my age first discovered VICE, before it became a bastion of the (in hindsight, very brief) “new media” phenomenon.

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