[2] After placing third in an amateur contest in Santa Barbara, Vision Street Wear started to sponsor Allen.
[5] In 1989, Allen left Vision for the newly founded H-Street, alongside John Schultes, Colby Carter, Art Godoy, Tony Magnusson, Danny Way, Chris Livingston, Aaron Vincent, John Sonner, David Nelsen, Matt Hensley, Sal Barbier, and others.
[5] Life ended because Allen and the other members of the company weren’t happy being associated with H-Street, so they moved to Deluxe & called it Fun Skateboards.
Moore designed a deck for Allen with Dexter Woods of the San Francisco chapter of the Black Panthers on it.
The film, by Marquis Bradshaw, a Minot, North Dakota attorney and filmmaker, which explored the issue of racial identity among African Americans through the lens of skateboarding.