Product Type: Skateboards
Caster – Wally Inouye
Company: CasterType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1979
Mag: Skateboarder
Issue: Skateboarder V5 N10 May 1979
Country: USA
Head Honcho – Olympic
Company: Northwest SkateboardsType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1979
Rider: Niko Weis
Mag: Skateboarder
Issue: Skateboarder V5 N10 May 1979
Country: USA
Z-Grabber
Company: Z ProductsType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1979
Mag: Skateboarder
Issue: Skateboarder V5 N10 May 1979
Country: USA
Hobie – Park Machine
Company: HobieType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1979
Rider: Kevin Moore
Photo: Jeff Ruiz, Tom West
Mag: Skateboarder
Issue: Skateboarder V5 N10 May 1979
Country: USA
Dogtown – Shogo Kubo
Company: Dogtown SkatesType: Skateboards, Wheels
Decade: 70's
Year: 1979
Mag: Skateboarder
Issue: Skateboarder V5 N10 May 1979
Country: USA
Bennett – Una Combinazione Unica
Company: BennettType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1979
Mag: Skateboarder
Issue: Skateboarder V5 N10 May 1979
Country: USA
Kryptonics – The Way We Wood
Company: KryptonicsType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1979
Mag: Skateboarder
Issue: Skateboarder V5 N10 May 1979
Country: USA
G&S – Ride The Spectrum
Company: Gordon and SmithType: Skateboards, Wheels
Decade: 70's
Year: 1979
Mag: Skateboarder
Issue: Skateboarder V5 N10 May 1979
Country: USA
Alva Products
Company: AlvaType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1979
Rider: Tony Alva
Photo: Raul Vega
Mag: Skateboarder
Issue: Skateboarder V5 N10 May 1979
Country: USA
Santa Cruz – Steve Olson Foamtail
Company: NHS, Santa CruzType: Distributors, Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1979
Mag: Skateboarder
Issue: Skateboarder V5 N10 May 1979
Country: USA
Sims – Brad Bowman
Company: SimsType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1979
Rider: Brad Bowman
Mag: Skateboarder
Issue: Skateboarder V5 N10 May 1979
Country: USA
Pro-Am Pure Gold
Company: Pro Am SportsType: Skateboards, Trucks, Wheels
Decade: 70's
Year: 1978
Mag: Skateboard!
Issue: Skateboard! #9
Country: UK
Olympic Freestyle
Company: Olympic SkateboardsType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1978
Mag: Skateboard!
Issue: Skateboard! #9
Country: UK
Blandford Sub Aqua
Company: Blandford Sub AquaType: Mail Order / Skateshops, Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1978
Mag: Skateboard!
Issue: Skateboard! #9
Country: UK
Woodie from Colinbury
Company: ColinburyType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1978
Mag: Skateboard!
Issue: Skateboard! #9
Country: UK
Trax Skateboards
Company: Trax SkateboardsType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1978
Mag: Skateboard!
Issue: Skateboard! #9
Country: UK
The Force is With Us
Company: Force SkateboardsType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1978
Mag: Skateboard!
Issue: Skateboard! #9
Country: UK
Benji Comp II
Company: BenjyboardsType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1978
Mag: Skateboard!
Issue: Skateboard! #9
Country: UK
Wa-Hoo by Lan: Picture This
Company: LANType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1978
Mag: Skateboard!
Issue: Skateboard! #9
Country: UK
The Force: Strength
Company: Force SkateboardsType: Skateboards
Decade: 70's
Year: 1978
Mag: Skateboard!
Issue: Skateboard! #9
Country: UK
Recent Comments
- Kilwag: Yeah got a post in the can on that one. Seems to predate this stuff....
- Lou: Actually I just looked it up, there other truck swapping thing is called "Qwik Truks". Spelling things differently makes them 36.4% cooler, guaranteed!...
- Lou: Looks like a fake "Quik Trucks" mechanism. The Quik Trucks are to fit any truck though, and they seem to be much lower than the Switch Board thingy....
- Kerry purcell: I have a pair of what I think are early Megatron trucks one has the number 1 stamped on one the other has 19 they were paired up on an Alva deck with powel bones which are totally original. Is there a...
- Cate: Hi Mike, did you do "funny " skits around Cronulla to put in the movie?...
- Gary moore: I have an original street warrior skateboard, it has a picture of a wasp with a axe in its hand and skater on it,is this worth anything?cheers...
- Eric M Fleming: Well that was something. Thanks for your effort....
- Pat Anstett: I bought my fiberflex with carry bag when the Hobie team came to Tampa. My dad was ops manager at JC Penny's, he took me out of school and we picked up the team at the airport. Had a blast hanging out...
- Kevin G: Great read, I love my G&S trucks. Of course the base plates died about as quick as Tracker ones did. I replaced them with Indy base plates, while not a perfect fit they are close enough to work. ...
- Jonny5: Fwiw those are not the original wheels as you correctly assumed. I have this board in original condition and the wheels are black. I was too much of a pussy to stand up on it and pretty much just sat ...
- Mark: Can’t believe I found this! My youngest son is a musician and we were talking about weird songs and I told him about one of my buddies from childhood in the 70’s whose parents were very German (th...
- Peter: I have a big surfi no.22 up for sale if anyone interested...
- Daire Meleady: can anyone let me know if you are selling any of the skb100 or sk100 helmets its for my son for christmas - heres my email to contact me - dairelfc@icloud.com...
- Daire Meleady: has anyone got any helmets like these, if so please send me an email at dairelfc@icloud.com....
- Paul Bates: looking for some flex power paw two tone scateboard wheels gold clear colour!...
- Peter Elliott: Hi guys, I was looking to purchase a Cooper SKB100 or Cooper SK100. Do you know how to go about buying one of these? Thanks, Peter...
- Monica Maka: A green version of Venice beach popped-up on Marketplace today....which led me here. Thanks for putting up all these great photos of what is out there. I appreciate it. Too Cool...
- Big Steve: What a killer thread! I got on here after seeing a T Hawk CoQ10 commercial that prompted memories of what I thought was a skating exhibition at the V.P. Fair in the Lou back in mid-to-late 80's. So I ...
- Kilwag: I thought that was joke Lance Mountain or Neil Blender made, can't recall....
- Kilwag: Fudge, link busted...
- Bobcat: Yee haw! I skated it last week - awesome mission. It's beyond crusty but there are some workable spots. For anyone asking for the location, I was able to find it using the clues in this blog post. ...
- Sean Landry: Tucker….I used to email and talk with Ellen many times before she passed away from COVID….killed me to find out and I’m trying to learn where she is buried now….i am terribly sorry that your s...
- Brian H: I was lucky to have a girlfriend with great taste who bought me these. Mine were dark blue though. Did these come in a dark blue?...
- Kilwag: Updated this ancient post so the embedded video works again....
- metal mike saunders: not unless being " the best live band in the entire world in early 1978" outside of AC/DC in their own genre and the Saints if they were still playing like banshees -- totals up to a joke. refernece...
- metal mike saunders: yea metal mike here and looking for something else entirely, this page/thread came up via the always unpredictable innernet of googleworld. i typed out a sufficiently totally-biased west coast ans...
- metal mike saunders: Bad Brains? etc. wrong wrong and wrong. in fall 1979 there were FOUR LA/OC/Valley punk bands that were doing ONE MINUTE SONGS. black flag, the crowd, red cross w/ron on drums, and our band the an...
- Alec Brown: Martin Sweeney, unfortunately no longer with us. Passed away in 2017 aged 54....
- Seth: RIP to an OG...
- S Hughes: First time I met Sean was when I was a 13 yr old grommet. We had a 1/4 pipe out front, it was maybe 1985. Sean rolls up seeing it and wants to ride. He was a full grown man with a leather biker jacket...
- Duke: This is just not true. We all had 7 ply decks in the 80s....
- TTFD: many thanks for getting this online - and all the other media etc you've got up here, appreciate you....
- death: Replying to this ancient comment in hopes of correcting this but, Tim Tillman is my stepdad, he didn't stick around too long on the scene. I mainly possess vague pieces of stories, but from what I hav...
- Alexander Maielua: I have and use one of these boards. I had to fill in and redrill the mounting holes to accommodate the updated trucks but can't beat this one for a daily cruiser...
- Jason Edward Blood: Suttaheads was my crew. Rodgers, buttahead, chief and jason blood...
