Interview: Steve Caballero Tells the Story of the Vans Half Cab (via Complex)

Complex magazine recently sat down with legendary Steve Caballero, the subsequent creator of the Vans Half Cab.

“The Vans Half Cab turns 20 this year, and its namesake, original Bones Brigade member Steve Caballero is still going strong as well. The 47-year-old Cab was on the cover of The Skateboard Mag back in September skating his signature kicks, and he blessed Complex with an interview to discuss the birth of the midcut skate shoe as well as a very special Supreme collabo.” -Complex

Check out the rest of the interview over on Complex, and enjoy some of the pics, including one that looks like my Instagram from my iPhone screen shot awhile back.  It could be anybody’s!

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Merry BMXmas! – Vintage Vans Ads (via @pillowHeat aka theothersideofthepillow)

New OTWS Record! Over 3,000 hits for 2 days in a row!!!

Sorry to bore you with this meaningless information, but this is for all of us OTWS members who’ve been contributing to the site and forum since the reincarnation of Offthewallsite.  I’m stoked!

Holy crap! 2000 visitors on the following day of our highest record?!?

What the heck is going on here people?  Is someone messing with us?!  We just hit our largest ever record of just over 1000 visitors 2 days ago, and yesterday we doubled that!  Not bad, huh?  Just wanted to share this with you all :).

 

update:  It appears that NiceKicks.com helped us out on this one!  Whattup Matt Halfhill and fam!  When are you gonna get a Vault collab???

Thanks @Gizmodo for helping our site hit 1,000 unique visitors!

Hey guys, I just wanted to point out that our site has had quite a few new visitors over the past few days, and I’m guessing it has to do with the recent iPhone4 case that just started popping up at a few Vans stores.  Actually, we need to thank the #1 tech blog as we know it, Gizmodo, for giving us some credit for having the most useful information about the case.  Take a look at our increase in traffic over the past few days.  Now don’t laugh, because I know our traffic isn’t spectacular, but it’s damn good for me!  On a good day, we would normally see about 600-700 visitors, and average is around 400-500 visitors per day.  Now, I haven’t checked out my Google analytics in awhile, but I know they aren’t far off from what ShortStat displays.  Yesterday was the first time we’ve hit 1,000 unique visitors!  Hopefully this surge in exposure will help direct long lost Vans enthusiasts like ourselves, who love any and everything Vans related, but never knew we existed.  I feel 2012 will be another solid growing year for OTWS.  Once again, thanks Gizmodo!

Vintage Vans BMX Ad – 11 (via ClassicKicks)

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