Don Early is a true OG and just a really good person. It’s funny watching this, because having worked for him at Future Sk8 many many many moons ago way before this current chesterfield location, I’d be sitting with him on his couch at his home and he proudly showed me everything shown in this interview and much much more. Don is an absolute hoarder and his collection of skateboard history is truly monumental on an insane level. When he first showed me this stuff I was absolutely mind blown. And everything has a vivid story from Don’s memory to go with it. He’s got a bunch of really cool and unique Neil Blender artwork too. I mean it just goes on and on. Genuine dude! Glad to see he’s still at it. The dude is so passionate about skateboarding that he’ll be doing this until the day he dies

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

4 күн бұрын

Well said. Thanks for chiming in 🙌👊

thanks don for shouting out the local Downhill buffalo Race! You've been a great help sponsoring our events and having us at the shop.

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

4 күн бұрын

Awesome! 🙌

Really digging Don's Mellow Cat tee!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Me too!!! Definitely old school!!!

I loved when I skated with my pals back in the 80s. We were south side street skaters aka Minnesota Posse grinding and railing on anything and did Ollie's over whatever was in front of us. Shout out to my pals Scott, Warren, Salasis, Brian-RIP, Arie-RIP, Mosses. Was the best times. Sk8 or Die bro.

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 күн бұрын

I love it!!! Those were the days!!! 🙌💥

I have to say growing up in the 80s freestyle and and skating that brought back a lot of memories for me and that’s an awesome video. Can’t wait to see the next one.🤘🤘🤘🤘

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

Күн бұрын

I love it!!! Thanks for watching and commenting 🙌

Awesome video, i went to that Future SK8s street demo with Joe Lopes and Hosoi. Brings back good memories. thanks for doing these videos.

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

7 күн бұрын

How cool!!!! We’ll do another video with Don and I think he’ll share some photos and stories from that demo 😎👊

My jaw dropped when you picked up that Caballero with the dragon graphics. That was my first board in 1989

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

3 күн бұрын

Such a classic graphic 🙌🙌🙌

THIS IS SO BAD ASS!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

Күн бұрын

🙌 It’s such a rad place!!!

AMAZING!! Man I loved every second of this, thank you so much!! Stay Rad! 🐀🛹

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

3 күн бұрын

Awesome!!! Please stay tuned, because I’ll be heading back in a few weeks for another visit with Don. 👍

@damionceniccola

3 күн бұрын

@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood can't wait!! Tell him the Rad Old Rat will visit one day 😂

Thank you for sharing this deff added to the bucket list of stops

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

Күн бұрын

Right on! It’s definitely worth a visit.

So awesome ! 🤯 What a collection of OG decks and "old school" stuff he has in this place !!! Thank you for sharing your visit ! 🙏🏼

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Awesome indeed 👊 Thanks for watching another one. This place is full of “old’s cool” stuff, for sure.

Don is awesome!! Great Video!!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Thanks! Agreed on Don. 🙌 Looking forward to visiting with him again to record a part two of the experience.

@CK3KSF

9 күн бұрын

@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Back in October my wife and I went to his shop, coming from South Dakota and we spent in hour talking with Don! He was awesome showing us around. Thank you for this video and thank you Don for your time when we were there as well! Great guy, great shop!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

@@CK3KSF How cool! Love it 👍

This man is a hero and a class act fpr the community we need more people like this 👏 🙌 🙏

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 күн бұрын

Yes!!!!

I'm an old school BMX rider but love skateboarding as well. my all time favorite deck is the Vision Mark Gonzalez deck. Now i've seen skateshops my entire life but this skateshop takes the cake. This place is an all in one. skateshop, museum, and skatepark freaking wowwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

I love that OG Gonzales deck too. So iconic 🙌 Your comments about the place are spot on. Well said!

@bigben1986

9 күн бұрын

@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Thanks dude and keep these awesome videos coming. Love your channel!

@theramplocal

7 күн бұрын

That vision gonz deck is on my list of all time greats, I still want to get one of those and a santa Cruz/hosoi skates hosoi hammerhead, light blue, what a grail!

@bigben1986

7 күн бұрын

@@theramplocal Ah man how could I forget that Hosoi infamous hammerhead deck. a super duper grail!!!!!!

@markprice2225

3 күн бұрын

The Lime Green edition Lance Mountain deck and the Tony Hawk Powell deck from the same collection 👌 love my Bucky stadium deck too

I used to skate here and it was awsome great staff and teachers and good prices on boards too, its nice to see a good skate park and shop geting some tractoin.

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

Күн бұрын

Awesome!!! I love hearing stories like this 🙌

thank you sir for another Fantastic Video!!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

7 күн бұрын

Cool!! 😎 Thanks so much for watching and commenting 🙏

Wow! Had no idea this was so close to me. I definitely gotta get over there. Awesome content that brings a smile to my face as always brother. 🤙

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Awesome. Thanks for the kind words. Definitely worth a visit. Totally a hidden gem and needs more attention. I knew the shop was there, but I didn’t realize how extensive his inventory and personal collection is. Just wow!

This is so cool! I’ve got to make a trip out there to check it out.

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Awesome!!!! Totally worth a visit!

Fantastic journey through the past for alot of us older guys

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

8 күн бұрын

Definitely some cool glimpses into history in there. Looking for to diving deeper with Don in another video. 👍

Thx for making this. Don sold me my first legit set up. It was a walker nightmare 2. A bunch of my close friends were on the future sk8 team in the late 80s early 90s.

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

How cool!!!! Good times! 🙌

@theramplocal

7 күн бұрын

I remember the ad for the walker nightmare in transworld and thrasher, iconic!

What a place took me back to my youth still have my OG Santa Cruz slasher . Started skateboarding with mum dad and my sisters in the 70s in north west England still got this in my blood top video mate keep these up 👍

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

7 күн бұрын

That’s so cool that you still have your OG Slasher 🤯 Love it!!! Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏

Excellent, excellent, excellent! Great shop and owner. I'm very glad that I recently subscribed. Nostalgic Neighborhood, thanks for coming out and profiling this shop! I have a personal connection to this museum and I would like to see this shop, park and museum platform continue for generations to come! Everyone needs to put a visit to this shop on their schedule of things to do! All the best to Don, his team and the Nostalgic Neighborhood!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Thanks for the sub and welcome to the “neighborhood” 👋 Totally agreed, great shop and owner. 🙌 Hopefully Don finds another location as cool as this one!!! 🙏

Hey Don ,glad you made a full circle... Don was a friend and the owner of my local skate shop in St. Peters Mo.

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 күн бұрын

Very cool! 🙌

Amazing collection and a great guy

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

4 күн бұрын

Agreed on both points 🙌

Great video, Thank you!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for watching and commenting 🙏

Another awesome video Matt. I love the history of skateboarding videos. Really cool to see the preservation and display of the things we remember as kids. Thanks for the upload bro 🛹🤘🛹

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

🙌 Thanks for watching another one!!! That place is so full of cool stuff, both old and new. This video just shows the tip,of the iceberg. So rad!!!

@theramplocal

6 күн бұрын

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood I'm in Columbia, MO. I am going to go check out his shop next time I am in stl. Was planning in taking the gf to her 1st cardinals game, might have to take a detour!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

6 күн бұрын

@@theramplocal Right on!!! The shop is literally right off HWY 64 as you come up through the valley after passing the Missouri River. Super easy for a pit stop 👍

@theramplocal

6 күн бұрын

@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood hey thanks man! Are you from/close to the 314?

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

6 күн бұрын

@@theramplocal Yes!

I love that this place exists, awesome job to the owner, and thanks for documenting this, very cool.

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

4 күн бұрын

Right on. It certainly is a cool place! 🙌

Growing up in San Diego, we were pretty spoiled with skate parks, skate companies, etc. basically the hub of So Cal. Vert skateboarding back in the 70s and 80s. It’s amazing how many other places around the country have rad skate scenes as well that you just don’t think about . Awesome video that shop looked amazing!

@shawkes6775

9 күн бұрын

Hammils Skate Shop in Mission Beach ruled all! Got my 1st Hawk deck there in 1989.

@dougm.635

9 күн бұрын

@@shawkes6775 Hamels is still there, but they don’t carry skateboards anymore that im aware of, just a tourist shop and rent bikes..

@shawkes6775

9 күн бұрын

@@dougm.635 Yeah, we checked it out a few years ago. I was bummed to see what it turned into. Man, a Hawaiian shaved ice, a dip in the water, an airbrushed T-shirt and a walk through in Hammils was a damn good day in Mission Beach!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Yeah, it’s interesting to think about it. Most of what we saw in the magazines was from your area and we were always California dreaming, but definitely cool to see the pockets of cool stuff happening throughout the rest of the country too 🙌

@shawkes6775

8 күн бұрын

@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood For Real Tho!

Omg i haven't seen that santa Monica airlines logo in 30 years. Had 2 Natas decks back in the day!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

7 күн бұрын

That’s awesome. Those Natas decks are so iconic 🙌🙌🙌

Great video! What an awesome shop!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

8 күн бұрын

Thanks!!! Yes, so much awesome stuff in there 🙌

Soooooo flipping awesome! Thanks for documenting this!!!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Awesome! Thanks so much for the encouraging feedback 🙌🙏

Place looks awesome!!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

4 күн бұрын

It was! 💯💥

Great as always my man, you find great spots..jealous Canadian 😕

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

4 күн бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. At least maybe you can visit some of the cool US spots vicariously like this through KZread 😎

stoked to have come across this channel! love hearing and seeing the history of skating and community within. thank you for this content!❤️‍🔥

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

7 күн бұрын

That’s awesome! Thanks so much for watching and commenting 🙌🙏👊

What an amazing place!,thanks for sharing 👍.

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

8 күн бұрын

Thanks! 🙏 Definitely a place worth sharing. It’s a hidden gem.

So cool. Gonna have to check this place out. 😅

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 күн бұрын

Right on! You’ll love it!

Keep up the great work! You are killing it bro

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Thanks so much!!! I appreciate the encouragement 🙏🙌

Great Video ! 🤘😆🤘❗

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

6 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for watching and commenting 🙏🙌🍻

great video!!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for watching and commenting 🙏

holy shit .that space is huge for a skate shop/park. so its an old SEARS huh? crazy.

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

7 күн бұрын

Yeah, it’s pretty crazy indeed. I remember shopping for tools with my dad in that same Sears location when I was in high school 🤯

great video ive been to chesterfield mall 100 times never knew this shop was there, i gotta pick up that earth surf stl deck

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 күн бұрын

Awesome, that deck graphic is super cool!! 😎

Yeah Don is really good person helps everyone

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

💯 I spent a few hours with him over a couple evenings last week, and saw this first hand a few times as he interacted with customers. Especially cool to see him encouraging the young ones too 🙌

TNN does it again!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

8 күн бұрын

Thanks!!! 🙏

Love the Mellow Cat Tshirt! RAD-I-CAL-MON!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

6 күн бұрын

💯 Agreed! That shirt is awesome 🙌

You should of spent more time on those used 80s boards . Those Jeff Kendall decks were sick

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

8 күн бұрын

💯 I’m going to go back in July, that’s a great idea for another video.

Ladder safety 😳

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

Күн бұрын

I fell off a ladder in my backyard few years ago and dislocated my shoulder pretty badly. Definitely a good reminder to keep ladder safety in mind, but I’ve hurt myself MUCH worse riding my skateboard 🤣

Tony AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Hahaha! 😂

I was looking hard for that Danny Way minitruck deck!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

8 күн бұрын

Nice!!!

I’ve a lucid dreams similar to this before I knew where it was

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

6 күн бұрын

Interesting!!!! How fun!

The size of the store is just is unreal and then the collection is just far out man like holy crap lot of rare and stuff being born in 96 I thought I knew the “if you know, you know” stuff but wow dude

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Yeah, it’s crazy how much cool stuff he has stashed away in there! 🤯

They will sadly get destroyed with the mall. Super nice owner. Little grumpy at first but realized I was just trying to learn and opened up instantly. Even roasted my board lol

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

Күн бұрын

Hopefully they find a new spot for the ramps before the mall is bulldozed

I haven’t been here in forever

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 күн бұрын

Might be time for another visit 👍

bloomington is rite up the road ....very killer place

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

3 күн бұрын

Awesome!!!

Does he have plans in Aug when they are demoing the mall? Hate to see that mall go, Don you did a cool thing over there! Hope you find a new home!

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

Күн бұрын

When I visited with him a couple weeks ago, he was still looking for a new location. Fingers crossed that he finds one soon!!!

that is one cool place! I have to ask you about Monza... I did not look into this brand until now, but I recognized the black pad with a fire-like logo on a white frame right now.. was this brand a Swedish brand once upon a time?' I been looking around for this bike now, but I only find one store in the USA for the Monza bike.. maybe I am wrong? do you know if this is sold in Sweden? thanks! and keep at it with these kinds of videos, this one was really cool to follow! I love nostalgic places..

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

9 күн бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. The primary owner of Monza, Thomas, is Swedish and still lives in Sweden. Most of their sales are direct to consumer from their website. But they do have some shops who sell them too. I have no idea if any local shops in Sweden have them. If you email Thomas, he might be able to give you some direction: thomas@monzabc.com 👍

@framestomind7548

8 күн бұрын

@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood ok, thanks for getting back.. will try to write to him.. I did get hold of someone on their Facebook page yesterday.. But they said, yes, the main office is still in Sweden, Stockholm but after the pandemic, we decided to stop selling bikes in the Eu and now only sell bikes in the USA.. I asked if I could not just go by their office and find a local deal right htere!? ...but seemed on whoever I talked iwth over Facebook felt that they really do not have any bikes here in Eu anymore or do not wanna sell them to us.. I do not know... I mean if had the headquarters of a BMX company in the city where the company was first started I sure would still have a few bikes at hand where I worked... but I do not know...

My first board was a Vision Gator.

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 күн бұрын

It’s such a classic design.

This place looks awesome, and it’s only about 18 miles from me, excellent. How much to skate the skate park?

@barginbutts5789

4 күн бұрын

I'd gone there a week back. It was free when i went but there wasnt many people there at the time so i dont know if that changed anything

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

4 күн бұрын

I think it’s $5 for a session.

@BHarris25

4 күн бұрын

@@TheNostalgicNeighborhood Sweet thanks, I’m definitely going to check it out. I actually think I saw you tearing it up at kinetic park when I first started skating last year. I just saw your KZread and was like, that’s that dude lol.

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

4 күн бұрын

@@BHarris25 Awesome! If you see me up there again, please say hi 👋👊

@donearley5656

4 күн бұрын

It's $10 all day or five bucks in the afternoon

Someone should help him DIGITIZE those Photos 🤔

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 күн бұрын

Agreed! He’s got some great stuff in that shoebox 💯

I like the creature babe ;)

these are the kind of businesses we need more of in stl, not more car washes and apartments

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 күн бұрын

Well said. Seems like there’s a new car wash popping up on every corner these days. If we had skate shops and skateparks in those locations, the world would be a much better place 🙌💯☮️

Are rollerblades allowed in the park?

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 сағат бұрын

I’m not sure. I have A link to their facebook page in the description. You could sent them a DM or call to see. 👍

yooooo dude this is my local park shout out babyyyyy

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 күн бұрын

Awesome!!! 🙌

Very cool. Good post. I know it's cliche but support your local indie skate and BMX shops. 🛹

@TheNostalgicNeighborhood

2 күн бұрын

Right on!!! Thanks! 🙌🙌🙌💯💯💯