Thrasher Magazine

York, RANDLE, Iannucci, Hecox! With the help of Deckaid and eBay, Chocolate celebrated 30 years of iconic graphics, photos, videos and friendship. It was a night full of hazing, love and a bunch of OGs reminiscing about the good ol’ days. Scroll through, Paco. —Rye Beres

Tried to channel my inner Sunset Series on the drive over

First pro sighting of the night, my neighbors Taylor Kirby and Cody Chapman

Stoked to see two of Chocolate’s finest, Devine Calloway and Stevie Perez

Greeted at the door by my surfer friend Rickk

First things first, the original portrait series by Evan Hecox, circa 1997

Back panel on judge mode!

Uh oh, someone’s gonna be in trouble

Cutting it close there, Daniel

Honorary Trunk Boy Grant Taylor

Pen pals, Grant Taylor and Mike Kershnar

A couple more familiar faces

Chocolate’s art director Carlos Gutierrez on the ones-and-twos

One of my favorite series. Wonder if this is where FA got the idea?

Oh shit, The Mez and Al, AKA Sketch AKA Alfresko

Beautiful memorial for Keenan and Gabriel. Gone but never forgotten

Imagine the switch flips that went down on this—heavy!

Amazing collection of photos from the last three decades

Did I purposely time up this photo with the Thrasher cover logo? Duh!

The famous Stevie Williams sponsor-me tape that eventually turned into his Chocolate Tour part

It’s proven that Royals can withstand nuclear warfare

Stolling catching up on some Beta gold

You’re supposed to look the other way, Frank!

Taking a break from the streets of LA, we got lensmen Robin Wilson and Taylor Ballard

They don’t make graphics like this these days. Sigh…

This photo of Gabe is fucking awesome

Yorkatron and Poppa Yorkatron

Leo and Shota with their delicious Open Beers

@the_italian_one and his furry friend

Business Bragg

Endless amounts of graphics from the last 30 Years, pick ya fav

Former Girl art director Nick Zegel picked one!

Speaking of Girl, Griffin and Niels came to show some love for the chunk

Burger and beer lord, the Nuge!

“Take a photo of us”

Raise your hand if you want the return of the Crobfather beard

Rudy and the Cheeks!

The Entrepreneurs! Wait, I mean the Eldridges

It’s been a while since Devine has signed a Chocolate board. Just like old times

Look at this group of handsome lads!

The man that created the iconic portrait series, sun series, bar series and a bunch of other graphics you know and love, Mr. Evan Hecox

Dressed to impress. Gino never fails

Gabe’s sisters Olga and Audrey made it out to show love

Long-time Long Islanders, Gino and Frank Mare

Raven’s mom Dawn was in attendance. Where the fuck you at, COUCH?!

Feddy and the father

Meanwhile outside, Johannes is trying to understand what Mingus is doing with his fingers

Two Santa Cruz legends and some guy from Kansas City

Woah, hey, hey, no photos ova here!

Okay, maybe one photo with Smyth is fine

Squad goals is what the kids would say, right?

Kush Cowboy on Po-Up duties

DSO catching a fade from Cody, finally

“I heard I’m needed for a group photo?” said this handsome devil 

Shamil ran and fell directly into this photo

The original 1994 Chocolate team

Trying to get a group photo of 20 people while your camera is malfunctioning is not easy

“Did you get the photo?” No, Kenny. I kinda totally definitely blew it

DL is hyped though

Scoochy and Mulder!

I taught this guy how to smoke weed on our first trip!

Carl and Smyth, big hugs, big smiles

Skate history buffs, Eric Swisher and Jaime Owens

My favorite hour of the night. Haze Papke o’clock

This actually looks serious…let's get outta here before someone gets hurt

And last but not least, the man that put this whole thing together—BOBSHIRT himself—Tim Anderson. Thank you, Tim, and cheers to Chocolate on an unbelievably sweet milestone. Here’s to another 30!