Tim A. Anderson

Sport Chalet, Inc. owned and operated sporting goods stores. It operated as a specialty sporting goods store, which offered a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment, apparel, and footwear. The firm operated specialty sporting goods stores in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. It offered traditional sporting goods merchandise, including footwear, apparel, and other general athletic products; and core specialty merchandise, such as snowboarding, skateboarding, mountaineering, and dive/SCUBA; and also offered various services for the sports enthusiast, including backpacking, rock climbing, custom golf club fitting and repair, ski rental and repair, dive/SCUBA training and certification, dive/SCUBA boat charters, team sales, racquet stringing, and bicycle tune-up and repair. The company was founded by Norbert J. Olberzand in 1959 and was headquartered in La Canada, CA.

Vans, Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes footwear and apparel for casual wear and for use in activities such as skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing and bicycle motocross. The company was founded by Paul van Doren, Jim Van Doren, Gordon Lee and Serge Delia in 1966 and is headquartered in Cypress, CA.