Television

I remember being super excited about Ed Templeton and Mike Vallely starting their own board company back in 1992 called Television (if i remember right it was also called TV for a while too, T for Templeton and V for Vallely). I managed to hunt down a deck in a local shop, it was a Vallely and had a lovely early 90s shovel shape and just green paint on the bottom with an abstract lizard thing. Amazing. A little after Ed and Vallely fell out and Ed started Toy Machine and Vallely went back to Powell. It didn't last long but there was something about it I thought was pretty special and wanted to be a part of, in my own little way.



Here is a clip I found on YouTube from when the pair turned up at an American skatepark not long after they started the company. Sick stuff.