#315 - Steve Van Doren

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.9 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 180 minutes

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Steve Van Doren discusses his dad working for another shoe brand prior to starting Vans, starting to work at Vans when he was 12 years old, where the Vans side stripe came from, working with Tony Alva and other skaters to develop the first Vans skate shoe, Vans appearance in the movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High, the Vans Warped Tour, having to file a chapter 11 in 1984 then selling the company in 1988, Rowley's Staple Center statue, VF Corp coming into the picture in 2004, The origins of the waffle sole and much more! Timestamps 00:00:00 Steve Van Doren 00:00:58 How they named Vans shoes back in the day 00:02:45 Starting working at Vans when he was 12 years old 00:05:47 Steve's dad working for another shoe brand prior to starting Vans 00:08:31 How Vans was created 00:10:53 Where the Vans side stripe came from 00:14:11 Working with Tony Alva and other skaters to develop the first Vans skate shoe 00:28:01 Vans appearance in the movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High 00:34:11 Having to file a chapter 11 in 1984 00:39:45 Selling the company in 1988 00:44:40 BBQ'ing and being the face of Vans 00:48:22 The Vans Warped Tour 01:00:11 Building the block skatepark in Orange 01:04:59 What happened with the Combi Pool? 01:08:20 How Steve felt when his dad sold Vans 01:15:38 All the great Vans events 01:23:29 Vans involved with the Olympics? 01:27:29 The Bones Brigade reunion 01:30:31 Bringing a plexi glass ramp to Catalina to be on the Today Show 01:30:58 Steve Caballero's signature shoes 01:33:24 Geoff Rowely's signature shoes 01:36:27 Rowley's Staple Center statue 01:42:07 VF Corp coming into the picture in 2004 01:48:11 The damn Daniel moment 01:50:11 The MLB pitcher that wears vans 01:56:49 Ave's new shoe release 02:03:07 Retirement? 02:06:39 Steve and waffles 02:09:36 The origins of the waffle sole 02:17:50 Steve's charity work 02:27:55 Being inducted into the skate hall of fame Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I get stories from Stacey Peralta.
0:02.0	When I told he said, hey, you can go over that shoe store,
0:04.6	they're giving shoes away to skaters.
0:06.4	This is rad, you know?
0:07.4	So he goes over, hey, how you doing?
0:09.5	So those guys in those days, we would have have the store manager okay you can give those
0:13.8	shoes away all right we are back on we're back the nine club everybody today we have a
0:19.9	very special. Special. Special guest, Mr. Steve Van Doren is with us. How are you?
0:33.0	I'm doing great.
0:34.0	Thank you very much for inviting me up here to the Nine Club.
0:36.8	Thank you for coming, man.
0:39.6	And thank you for bringing all this amazing stuff that you're just going to gift us after the show.
0:44.4	You got the, what is this?
0:45.8	The bronze shoe right there.
0:47.6	We got the huge shoe over here.
0:49.4	We got a massive shoe.
0:51.2	I think that's Shax Van Shoeoe right? That's his new old school size 66 and called a size 66. Wow. Let me ask you a question. Let's just jump right into this really quick. Why were vans in the back in the day why
1:05.2	were they just numbers how come they weren't call how come they weren't named
1:07.9	anything it's amazing because we never called an authentic old school skate high.
1:12.6	My dad was a systems guy.
1:14.8	And so a 44 was authentic, okay?
1:18.5	A 45 was a boachue.
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