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- Luiz Celso: super surf was my first skateboard...i did buy in miami beach 1971..i was 11 years old....my first trip to us........
- Pan's Dog: Still have my Strople Pro Model. Back in late '77 early '78, 11 year old me asked the dudes at Sidewalk Surfer, Scottsdale, AZ, what deck they would recommend. Caster Chris Strople Pro Model was the a...
- Rb: Lol! I just met Brooks today, in Hawaii! I noticed a stack of funny looking skateboards in his carport that started a long chat!!...
- Jeffrey Donovan: Vinylkingzcrew@gmail.com, my very first board was yellow bk graffiti, mini board. Can you guys please reissue this particular board?...
- jonathan skeeter: Also came out in a 1986 issue of Freestylin' BMX magazine w/ a story about Mark Skateboarding gots NO love for BMX...
- HOWARD MARTIN-TAYLOR: Lucky man, I had a Skuda LA when I was a kid, again, my prized possession, but was stolen when I was 15 years old, I was devastated. I am also 58 years old and would love to find another one....
- Leslie Warren: Iāve just found this, Iām a 58 year old surveyor and Iāve got one of these, I bought it new in 78/79 by working three paper-rounds when my parents banned from skateboarding on safety grounds, st...
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- Chris: How do I get hold of you ā¦. I found another even better one !!...
- Mike Smith: I rode with Roy in 77. He nicknamed me Silicone. I was the kid with the long blonde hair. Just wondering if you have any films that I'm in....
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- Steven Leto. Jr.: That's awesome.I skated for sunshine house from 74 to 79.We were there almost everyday.We got to skate it before it opened and when skateboarder magazine came there we got our pics in it.I always skat...
- Rick Briggs: My first wide deck was a crappy AISI Viper! Thanks for posting this, I've been trying to find it online for years. I asked my parents to get me a fat board from the states when they went to Hawaii I t...
- Wes: Precious find...
- Tim Tempest: I had a Pacer..the little yellow cambered fibreglass model..ACS 651 trucks & Gecko 5 wheels.. My brother,he had the mahogany deck...same trucks & wheels but two totally different boards..The ...
- Bridgette: Million Bradley, You asked if Go Skate produced any skate videos. "Quimby Productions" ran the skate contest and made videos of the contest. Quimby( Matthew Oldham) had Dale Smith and many other...
- Todd: Great memories of taking two bus transfers to make it to Gremic Skates in Los Gatos. This is late 70ās. One of my most cherished skateboard deck is an unused Pegasus Deck. This was Gremic in-house...
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- ronny roth: First welded prototype Chromoly trucks made 1986-87. Hi from Sweden Living and working in Chula Vista between 85-87 (back in the daysš¤) I got to weld the first 300 Chromoly trucks for a guy I do...
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- Steve: My daughter found one of these in an antique toy store. I bought it and am working on it now. It was still unassembled and I found a sheet at the bottom of the box. It says it was made by Invaders mod...
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- Michael: Having just moved to Eagle Rock CA. From Puerto Rico in the summer of 1968 the following summer (1969) for my birthday I received my first skateboard, The Black Night, complete with the infomous clay ...
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- John Lamb: The bottom board with the surfer on it is my Arte from the iconic āfive Summer storiesāā¦. The name of the cartoon called rocket 88 by John Lamb....
- Dave: Hi, did you source one of these? Thanks...
- Terrence (terminator) Bunce: I skated the little & big bowl back in the late 70's & I caught the fever.... My 1st skateboard was a Sears yellow plastic board with a grainy finish, urethane open bearings wheels..... no wa...
- Scott Garig "Sunset Surfer": I first went to Val Surf in July 1974, when it was next door to the liquor store on Whitsett & Riverside. I sold them my 9'4" Morey Pope board with a John Beck design, because I was going into the...
- Michael Hall: I have a vintage Continental skateboard with the fiberglass prism board and all original parts that I am interested in selling as I no longer ride it. Anybody interested please contact me at the email...
- Bucky: Huh? The one on the left is the original quicksilver from 87 no?? The right is screen printing, the left was before that....I'm just trying to sell my left one...or is that what you are saying? I can'...
- Kilwag: Read and Destroy! I have some of those mags I was planning to add to the gallery but I don't have a scanner big enough to fit those oversize pages....
ummmm…what?
I rarely ever saw girls skating when I was younger. Now I see them all the time and I feel like I need to make an effort to encourage them. I think I’m generally supportive of other skaters but I get self-conscious when it’s a girl. I guess I’m just hypersensitive because of all the media attention to harassment cases, etc.
Or maybe it’s a remnant of the mating ritual. My mind still worries about making a good impression even though my body is past expiration date.
I’m just looking forward to the day when my daughter will be better than my tired old ass.
Mark, I’m with you on this one. There’s a girl (18/19-ish) I would sometimes see skating while at my lunchtime sesh. I got to know her by name and encouraged her to drop in and try 50-50s. I didn’t think anything of it and figured I was helping some “kid” learn some basics. She normally wore jeans and a big bulky hoody, then she showed up one day last Spring wearing a tank top and was allll woman.
I see her now and again, but for some reason, in a different light. I too feel hesitant about the slimey older guy harrasment thing. Now it’s just the what’s up nod when I see her.
yeah over at Sunnyvale there’s this friggin gorgeous girl who skates better than most guys out there. She must be such a party.
this is gonna turn into something bad….dont tell Rich.
[…] skateboard stereotypes…from Curriculum magazine Skate and Annoy
Girl skaters seem way more legit and in it for themselves, just like the boys, these days. It seemed to me that girls that had skateboards in the 80’s where usually just trying to be with the boys, it was really annoying most of the time, a lot of girls who were into hardcore in ’83-ish seemed this way too, at least in central Illinois. We didn’t do any thing to encourage them come to think of it but we were little kids ourselves…and kind of fascist hardcores in retrospect.
Hey, MC – Just take an antisocial and unfriendly approach with everyone and you won’t have to worry about how you are treating the women.
sounds like trouble brewing…dont tell Rich
The central Illinois hardcore scene circa 1983 sounds absolutely fascinating. Tell us more…
over at Sunnyvale there
E.C., assuming you are serious, if you aren’t interested in the sociology of youth culture then what are your interests here? This is rhetorical, please don’t answer, most are tired of your empty comments on this blog.
Yeah, I just fielded another complaint about EC. Either contribute something positive every once and a while or go enlighten someone else.
If you treat everyone the same, at a session, there will never be a problem. It is really annoying to be treated differently (good or bad) just because you are not the typical skater.
Besides, skateboarding is only about you when you are skateboarding.
Right-on Ash! Folks skating and having a good time.
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Skateboarding IS youth culture. You’re apparently so far removed that the connections aren’t registering. Kilwag has a target audience, and it is for people who may or may not remember the evolution of skateboarding from the seventies/eighties to today (because I’ve heard enough of your eighties quips, too). Skateboarding, youth culture, and the discussions surrounding them have come a long way. They would go further, EC, if you would attempt to understand, respectfully offer what you can, and check your childish one-liners at the door.
Was it Lester Bangs?
“it is for people who may or may not remember the evolution of skateboarding from the seventies/eighties to today”
Skateboarding started in the fifties toots.
fucking hell man. Can you stop the facade for a second? Please. It’s so tiresome.
It’s not a facade. I’m like this all the way through. I find you to be the tiresome one due to your complete lack of a sense of humor. And listening to a supposed grown-up earnestly argue about the minutiae concerning some pop group from 25 years ago is downright depressing.
While you’re staring at my boobs I’m staring at your package…it’s all good in the ‘hood. We can still all get along š
Argument Then War.
EC, I guess from some of the other people’s comments above it’s not just me who “doesn’t get” your sense of humor. Maybe because you don’t really have one.
You complain about EVERYTHING on this site, so why do you keep coming here?
Because I’m interested in the sociology of youth culture!