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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David Goldsmith, there was always Lillywhites
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm not surprised. The place wasn't moving with the times when I started buying my own kit in about 1971, so it's miracle there's anything of the old mausoleum now.
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Looks a fun night. I love how the effects of the champagne start to manifest themselves more and more, as you go through the slideshow!
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There are some superb suits at the end 
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David Goldsmith, was that taken at the last Ski Club AGM?
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You may mock, Swiller, but those photos made me wonder if 188 Kensington High Street should be turned into a nursing home.
The only person who still looks relatively youthful is Dion Taylor (Snow+Rock's main man, for those who don't know him). It's reliably said that Dion once carried a live sheep up a fire escape into somebody's bedroom, in his native NZ, as a kind of 'alarm clock'.
That's the kind of activity that boosts your life expectancy.
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That said, Konrad Bartelski doesn't look a day over ... err ... 29?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I like this one... around 1989, garage of the Rindererhof, Hintertux... on the right is Matt Chilton, now BBC Ski Sunday, then the Atomic rep. I would have been just off camera (or still in bed)
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Clever of him to stand under a 15ft Rossignol banner for the photo
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David Goldsmith, that's never 15ft.
Even cleverer of the K2 rep to put his skis under it 
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You know it makes sense.
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No wonder that the guy on the left is only interested in the beer logo.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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David Goldsmith, if i am not mistaken the guy on the left is a somewhat younger Steve Newlands of rossignol UK
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Poster: A snowHead
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CEM, it is (nice 'tache), although this was when he was doing a brief stretch with Head. Other guy is Jim Davis.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You're right. It's Steve Newlands.
He introduced me to Bearsden Ski Club, and its beer cellar.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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What happened to Alpine Sports in Kensington High Street?
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Snow+Rock essentially grew out of Alpine Sports, because its founder (Mike Browne) was the marketing director of the former. Alpine once had about 5 stores in London.
When Alpine went under I think the shop in Ken High St was sold to another sports chain, but I may be wrong.
Martin Green, the founder of Alpine Sports, has run a snowboard shop in Chamonix for many years. Can't recall its name.
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Bode Swiller, and the company importing Rossignol at this time was ...... BUT {British united trading} and there was Steve, Jim, and Dave Stanley, he may well have been doing his bit with Head, but he is still wearing a Rossignol ski company sweat shirt 
David Goldsmith I'm suprised he introduced you to Bearsden ski club, as at that time Steve was the head instructor [and my race trainer] at Glasgow ski centre [Bellahouston Park]
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David Goldsmith, ZeroG
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CEM, now I come to think about it it must've been the following year (after the demise of BUT) that he went to Sportline (Head). I never knew what BUT stood for til today.
johnnyh, Alpine Sports was bought from the receivers by a Swiss investment company, traded for a decade and then (I think) got taken over by Blacks and the name disappeared. Shame, a good name.
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Was it any of the above who used to live round the corner from me as a kid in Kenilworth? - They drove a big red Audi estate decorated with (from memory) Rossignol livery....I washed it for them on Bob-a-job week
(Come to think of it, I guess it could have been from Lockwoods...)
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David Goldsmith, I remember S & R's first shop in Ken High St, opposite Alpine Sports. Alpine were heavily into Skateboards in the late 70's also. I bought all of the components from their Notting Hill Gate branch and built my own.
I met Mike Browne in his first week of trading in Kensington and my brother went on to sell him all of the stores AV equipment.
Snow & Rock had exactly the same feel about it that Alpine had back then, even the Brochures looked the same.
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Guvnor, red Audi 100 Avant... probably Nordica/Look/Kastle...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Bode Swiller, That'll be the one....whoever it was, they still owe me 20pence - I waxed it too
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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CEM, I'm thinking Jeff Garner
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You know it makes sense.
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Guvnor, you waxed what exactly?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Bode Swiller, he was in here a couple of weeks back...could have asked him then,
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Poster: A snowHead
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Bode Swiller, I buffed it with my woggle 'til it shone like a shiny new penny....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Guvnor, you're on the wrong forum
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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do you remember the picture of the Neil's Audi stuffed in the ditch at the roundabout north of cumbernauld on the A9
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the brakes on an Audi Avant we're very grabby and this was pre-ABS. Many ended up like that.
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Bode Swiller, That's the peril of not paying attention with multiple browsers open....
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Spyderman, very pleased to hear about your skateboard investments. One of the great sports.
I go back to skateboarding on London's original site (the Broadwalk, Kensington Gardens), from 1975, where American kids did the original skating before the South Bank took off. Skateboard retailing at Alpine Sports began to boom in about 1976 and went nuts for about three years after that.
At its height, skateboard sales were so huge that Alpine opened a specialised shop opposite Harrods.
I worked down the road from there at the original Alpine Sports store at 309 Brompton Road, firstly in skiing, then skateboarding. Then joined Skateboard! magazine (published by Felix Dennis) as technical editor in 1978. Around that time I imported the first 20 snowboards (Winterstick) and 10 monoskis (Bahne Single Ski) into the UK from Utah and California.
Anyone else on this forum ever work at 309 Brompton Road? What a legendary shop that was!
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David Goldsmith,
I'm Debbie and I'm brand new to snowheads, and I'm not good at 'forums' or 'quick replies' or how any of this stuff works. I came across this site whilst trying to Google my old employer, Martin Green. I was there (Chelsea, then Brompton Road) from February to Sept of 1976 with time off for travel; arrived young and fresh from California. I worked with Keith Kemp, Richard, Chris Gore, Chris Essen, Karen James and Christine Keats (from Australia), Beth (?) from Putney (?), Derek (the accountant with the Indian accent for bill collectors), Greg Lilley, and a "window decorator" (name?) from South Africa. Wondering where everybody is now...?
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djol816@sbcglobal.net DG doesn't check in here anymore but I have emailed him so you might hear.
I last saw Martin Green in Chamonix about 10-12 years ago. He rented me a mountain bike and it's possible he still owns/manages a store there.
Welcome, by the way.
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THANK YOU!! I'll give it a try. (Also, somebody -- maybe you? -- got hold of David Goldsmith, who emailed me, too.)
Debbie
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(Sorry -- I mentioned that I'm not good with chats, blogs, quick replies, 'most everything else computer, except word processing... You WERE the one who alerted "DG", and thanks again. Following is what I posted on SnowHeads...
I'm Debbie and I'm brand new to snowheads, and I'm not good at 'forums' or 'quick replies' or how any of this stuff works. I came across this site whilst trying to Google my old employer, Martin Green. I was there (Chelsea, then Brompton Road) from February to Sept of 1976 with time off for travel; arrived young and fresh from California. I worked with Keith Kemp, Richard, Chris Gore, Chris Essen, Karen James and Christine Keats (from Australia), Beth (?) from Putney (?), Derek (the accountant with the Indian accent for bill collectors), Greg Lilley, and a "window decorator" (name?) from South Africa. Wondering where everybody is now...?
See? I had Chelsea/Brompton Road/Holborn all confused... [Oh, also: I lived in a bedsit in Muswell Hill, and Jose often stopped by to pick me up and drive me to work with him. Did you ever go with the bunch of us to dinner at that Chinese restaurant in Soho where they had really good corn soup? How about Al Ben Acolto (sp?) where Martin took all of us employees to dinner before the second shop (Holborn) opened? I also remember the bar next door to Brompton, where we all used to sit around a big table smoking cigarettes (I always had my American Marlboros) and drinking pints after work. Good times...]
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