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.
That’s Life
3-10-2010 by Kilwag modified 3-9-10 - 11 comments
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3-10-2010 by Kilwag modified 3-9-10 - 11 comments
Categories: Back In The Day, Magazines, Media Watch, Skate
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11 comments
Stinkbug
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
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
The car is late ’30’s,early ’40’s,yeah,that’s an amazing picture.
jakeandannoy
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
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
Kill joy!
You know there were kids somewhere who tried it without the crate.
Bevilacqua
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
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?
Prickly Pete
Skateboarding: brought to you by bored, unsupervised, unorganized ten-year-olds.
Welsh Pete
That just might be my favourite skateboarding photo, ever.
Talentlessquitter
Kilwag;that reminds me of Back To The Future again…