Check it out, check it out, check it out, boom, woo, check it out.
We are at Park Valley Bethesda, and we are a skateboard, flower, and dry goods shop in
Prospect Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
We sell an assortment of, you know, fresh cut flowers that I pick out for the shop,
and then dry goods is a mixture of new and old, some antiques, some handmade items, greeting
cards, books, a little bit of vintage clothes, a little bit of our own clothing.
I think with skateboards, like, we try to keep it simple with the stuff that we have.
You know, we have a good amount of brands, and we have stuff that you'd want, but we
don't get any, we try to avoid, like, all the really kid stuff.
Right now, local brands were carrying naysayer boards, which have been super popular.
I mean, the graphics are really cool, and I think people like that, that's a local thing.
We're also doing these prize fighter cutlery wheels that I could reach from right here.
We're just super nice.
They have that poisoning smell to them.
The size is really good.
The art direction is really good.
That's something that's really important to us.
The flower business is actually, like, I know a lot of skate shops, you know, in the winter
time are scratching their heads, and hopefully selling a lot of sneakers and things like
that, but in the winter time, they're selling a lot of flowers, there's a lot of holidays.
We're the only flower shop anywhere, we're the only skate shop around here, too, but
we're the only flower shop anywhere around here.
My main collection is my 40-ounce beer bottle collection.
I have a little over 200 tulens change, some of which I drank when I was a kid, a lot of
which I traded for.
I have a new toy now, it's not really a collection, we put a mini ramp in the backyard recently,
and that's like the new thing, that's what we've been focusing on so far this summer.
The ramp is four feet tall, I think it's like a five-foot transition, and it's 19 feet
wide, so it's got a really small flap on it, it's a super fast ramp, like you're in and
you're on the other side, and you kind of have to move your front foot to be ready to
get back to the other side.
We could skate the ramp, but it's definitely an invite-only sort of situation, like if
you just show up here to skate in the middle of the day, I'm going to have to turn you
away, and I hate to do that, it pains me to do that, but I can't have people skating in
the middle of the day.
I'm going to use the back to make a lot of the stuff that we sell, and my son sleeps
and hangs out in the back, so it's definitely a nighttime invite-only kind of thing.
How about you buy a complete?
I mean, you can't be like, if I buy a complete, can I go skate, but if you're friends with
Park Teller, you're going to skate that ramp, that's for sure.
Right now Tyrell has been riding for the shop, and he just took this really good photo that's
on his Facebook page with our grip tape, Brian Maloney rides for the shop, he's sort of like
a quiet guy in Brooklyn, I don't think a lot of people know about him.
The team is definitely cool, and to have a skate team is great, but I think on the larger
limit, it's great to have people who like being part of Park Teller, they like to come
here, they come here when they're not buying boards, and they're part of it, it becomes
like a larger thing, it's more of a family kind of feeling, and not just another customer,
they come and they go, we try to, we want people to come and we want people to hang
out, and those same people are going to be the ones skating the ramp.
When I was a kid in Staten Island, I used to skateboard at this, there was a shop in
Staten Island called The Year in a Day, and my mom bought me a complete, that was like
my first time I'd ever been in a real skate shop, and then we used to skate in the park
right next to the shop, it was called McDonald Park, and I have like a lot of good memories
of being at that shop, and being part of the shop, and going on skate trips with the shop,
and staying late to help clean up after the skate jams, and the demos, the demos that
this guy put on, definitely stick out in my mind, everybody from that era of like 1994,
1995, 1994, whatever, it had come through at that point, and we met all the World Industries
guys, and Plan B guys, and Foundation, like everybody was coming to do these demos, they
were like these big grand parties, bands, food, and skating, and it was just a good time,
it was a cool time to be around and be a kid in Staten Island, those things stick with
me forever, you don't really see it that way now, it's different, I think.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
