Orchard Black Friday Blowout Sale

The day after Thanksgiving marks the official start to the Holiday shopping season and we're going all in on this year's Black Friday Blowout Sale at the Allston Shop!

Doors open at 8am and close at 8PM.
Show up early for the best selection on our biggest sale yet!

• Shoe Pile of Death - up to 85% on shoes for Men, Women, & Kids sizes 3-13! Over 500 pairs to choose from!


• Buy 2 Tee Shirts Get 3 FREE! - Yes that's 5 tee shirts for the price of 2!


• Buy 1 Get 1 FREE - All Snapback and 5 panel hats!


• Buy 1 Get 1 FREE - All Women's & Kids shoes!


• 25% off all backpacks!


• $10 off all complete skateboards


• 10% all gift certificates!


• Plus more door bustin' deals!

New Balance Numeric Team Signing

On Sunday November 10, 2013, the New Balance Numeric team visited the Allston Shop for their first ever team autograph signing session!
Check these photos by Trevor Denman of the team including Arto Saari, PJ Ladd, Levi Brown, Tom Karangelov, Jordan Taylor, Jordan Trahan, and Tyler Surrey.

Individuals Collective Builds An Orchard

When we first made the decision to open a new shop on Newbury Street this past summer, The !nd!v!duals Collective were our first choice of who we wanted to work with in creating the new shop's fixtures and build out.
The Individuals are a Brighton based artist collective that creates magical things from salvaged junk and reclaimed wood. Some of y'all might remember their "Lovesick Cafe" exhibit in the Extension Gallery at the Allston shop back in 2011. But instead of making cute, cuddly, canibalistic creatures, this project was all about creating an environment, and we couldn't be happier with the results!

Check this awesome 8 minute documentary that explores the process in creating the Orchard Newbury store. Video by !nd!v!dual Winston Macdonald

A Place in the Sun - Arto Saari Photo Exhibition

This Saturday night we are proud to present A Place in the Sun - an installation of photographs from professional skateboarder Arto Saari.

The show will also feature other selections from Arto's Side Mission and Transmission photograph series.

Saturday November 9th
8:00 - 11:00PM
21+
Extension Gallery at Orchard Skateshop
156 Harvard Ave. Allston, MA 02134

Free Beers from Pabst Blue Ribbon

Presented by:
NewBalance Numeric
Flip Skateboards
Destructo Trucks
Orchard Skateshop

2013 Annual Helloween Skate Jam Photos

On Saturday October 26th, 2013 we hosted our annual Helloween Skate Jam at the Chinatown courts in downtown Boston. Many thanks to everyone that came out for the good times, and to Converse and all of the event's sponsors that helped make it happen!

All photos by Rob Collins

20 Years of Girl Art Exhibit Opening

On September 14th, 2013 we had the amazing opportunity to host the 20 Years Of Girl art exhibit in the Extension Gallery at our Allston shop, with special guests Rick Howard, Mike Carroll and Ben Colen in attendance.

Along with the art show, we teamed up to release a collaboration project with Girl Skateboards that consists of a board, tee shirt, and DVD mixtape of some of our favorite Girl parts from the last 20 years.
The capsule is available in both of our Boston locations and online at www.orchardshop.bigcartel.com.

Check this video of the opening reception by Michael Chew.

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Orchard X Lakai : Vincent Wear Test : Boston

On Saturday September 14th, 2013 Rick Howard and Mike Carroll came to Boston to celebrate the 20 Years of Girl art exhibit in the Extension Gallery at Orchard.

Before the show we met up with Mike, Rick, and a crew of homies at the Newbury shop to push around town for a group wear test of the new Vincent Alvarez pro model shoe from Lakai.

As seen in the clip, the Vincent's are ready to rip right out of the box, and many of the dudes are still skating them over a month after this first session.

Skating by Jeff Burke, Rick Howard, Mike Carrol, Nick Rudzinski, Tommy Wisdom, Armin Bachman, Ariel Pearl, Phil McCormick, Eddie Allen, Benny Goldman, Myles Underwood, John Wisdom, Rob Ridge, and the crew.

Video filmed and edited by Michael Chew, additional filming by Tin Tran.

Jason Jessee Exhibit Opening Photos

The Jason Jessee "Manufactured Inspirado / Keeping the Mythos Alive" art exhibit opening on October 5th was an eventful night with a packed house! Many thanks to Converse, Santa Cruz Skateboards, and Pabst Blue Ribbon for an awesome night! And many thanks to special guests Jason Jessee and Kenny Anderson.
Check these photos by Eileen Clynes from the event:

Jason Jessee Exhibit Opening - Manufactured Inspirado / Keeping the Mythos Alive

In association with Converse and Santa Cruz Skateboards we proudly present an art exhibition by the one and only Jason Jessee.

Legend, badass, mad genius, and artist are a few of the words you could use to describe this pro skateboard Icon of style. The show will feature photographs and memorabilia from his 25+ year career in skateboarding.

The exhibit will also feature his unique sculpture art that is a blend of punk rock spirit, motorcycle culture and general weirdness that only Jason could come up with.

Come meet this icon in the flesh at the opening reception:

Saturday October 5th
8-11PM / 21+

Presented by Converse, Santa Cruz, and PBR.

The show will be on display for 3 weeks.

Orchard X Girl 20 Years of Girl Capsule Project and Mixtape

In celebration of the 20 Years of Girl art exhibit we hosted at the Extension Gallery at our Allston shop, we teamed up with Girl on a collaboration project that included a deck, tee shirt, and mixtape DVD of 20 of our favorite parts from the last 20 years of Girl Films.

For the last 20 years, Girl has put out some of the most iconic skate videos of all time. We grew up idolizing the skaters and parts from these videos, watching and rewatching these VHS tapes with rarely a FF button pushed.

The concept of a skate mixtape is nothing new, and recently the remix master Manolo put together an awesome mix to commemorate Girl's milestone.

In the days before computer editing systems were commonplace, we used to make custom mix tapes of our favorite parts using 2 VCR's and whatever spare VHS tape was around. To celebrate 20 years of inspiration we have put together a mix of our 20 favorite parts from Girl Films. When creating our mix we aimed to keep the process as close to the original analog methods we used growing up. Each part on this mix was recorded on a VCR one-by-one, and then the entire mix was transferred to a computer to be uploaded to Vimeo and made into a DVD.

With so many amazing parts to choose from, we created guidelines for our selections that included any Girl team rider part from any Girl or Chocolate film, as well as including Chocolate rider's parts from a Girl video - ie Keenan in Mouse.

These video parts represent style, innovation, and timeless skateboarding.

DVD copies of the mix are available for free with the purchase of a deck or tee shirt from our Girl X Orchard capsule project which are available in both of our Boston locations and in our online shop at www.orchardshop.bigcartel.com

• Orchard Newbury Grand Opening Celebration Photos Sep 11, 2013
• 20 Years of Girl Artshow & Collab Release Sep 11, 2013
• Summer Slam 5 Super Sale Jun 25, 2013
• Dennis Mcnett for Antihero Art Opening Photos May 22, 2013
• Orchard X Antihero "Off Campus Housing" May 17, 2013
• Vans presents an Exhibit of Dennis Mcnett Artwork for Antihero May 14, 2013
• One Big Push - A Benefit for Victims of the Marathon Bombings May 7, 2013
• The Deathwish Video - Boston Premiere Apr 15, 2013
• Battle at The BARrics Matchups Mar 4, 2013
• Orchard and Converse Present The Battle at the BARrics aka March Radness Feb 27, 2013