That’s Life

Posted by: Kilwag (editor) on March 10th, 2010
Categories: Back In The Day, Magazines, Media Watch, Skate
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It doesn’t get much purer than this. You have to build it before you can play. That’s your barrier to entry. Also worth mentioning, non-athletic shoes. VIntage Life magazine.

– Thanks to Andy Wylie for the tip.

11 thoughts on “That’s Life”

Stinkbug on March 10, 2010 - Reply

He must be getting ready to work on his Natas spins. It might help if he centers those trucks a little better. What a great image.

Darryl Brown on March 10, 2010 - Reply

What a great shot. I have the 1965 Life with the “craze and menace of skateboards” cover, but have never seen this photo. Classic.

Talentlessquitter on March 10, 2010 - Reply

The car is late ’30’s,early ’40’s,yeah,that’s an amazing picture.

jakeandannoy on March 10, 2010 - Reply

Holy God,that fire hydrant is twice the size of the car!!! What kind of crazy time period was this that cars were 3×2 ft and fire hydrants were like reservoir towers???!!!!
Well, you can have your crazy world of tiny cars and oversized fire hydrants and greaser-Jeremy Kleins thank you very much, people of the land of the 40’s.

conahan on March 10, 2010 - Reply

Here’s the caption from the Life magazine site:
Young boy nailing wheel parts from an old roller skate to a wooden plank in the first step toward making an orange crate scooter
Photo: RALPH MORSE
Sep 01, 2005

kilwag on March 10, 2010 - Reply

Kill joy!

You know there were kids somewhere who tried it without the crate.

Bevilacqua on March 11, 2010 - Reply

Once again you are cutting the lawn under my feet: I was about to post this delicious picture on my next article (banana boards)
Great find – as usual !

Grover on March 11, 2010 - Reply

History books tell us this kid should be working in a factory or selling news papers. If it were not for this kid we would have no Tony Blue Tile no Flying Tomato. If it were not for this kid we would all be working in factories? Thank you kid if that is your name?