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Skateboarding, 1960s
retronaut ^ | Bill Eppridge

Posted on 07/22/2012 10:03:32 PM PDT by djone

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To: djone

In the mid 60’s I had an “advanced” board with hard-rubber roller skate wheels on it. They were much smoother than the steel wheels. The only drawback was that if skating on blacktop a small pointed piece of gravel could stick in the pavement and the wheel at the same time. It would make a board go from 20 mph to 0 mph in an inch! You would always need to be prepared to start running at full speed at any time.


21 posted on 07/22/2012 11:53:51 PM PDT by StevieB
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22 posted on 07/23/2012 12:03:37 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: StevieB

Yeah, I had a skinny skateboard in the late ‘70s. That thing was deadly. Between it and lawn darts I don’t know how we survived.


23 posted on 07/23/2012 12:07:52 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: djone

That little guy with the skateboard under his left arm is holding a true 60’s skateboard.


24 posted on 07/23/2012 1:01:16 AM PDT by lewislynn ( What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in commom? Misinformation)
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To: djone

very cool. what neighborhood? i grew up lower east side in the 60’s.


25 posted on 07/23/2012 2:00:52 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: aruanan

Looks like me as a kid. Have the notch in my tongue 40 years later from when I got hit by a pitch and bit my tongue with my canine tooth! Well - except I’m pretty sure I couldn’t have looked THAT geeky!


26 posted on 07/23/2012 2:10:36 AM PDT by 21twelve
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To: djone

I had a store-bought skateboard in the 1960s. It worked fine on the concrete sidewalk, but the first time I took it on pavement, the extra vibration popped the bearings out of one wheel, and I was SOL (skateboard off-line).

Now I have a little scooter and a pair of inline skates. This reminds me to get back on wheels — with all the padding devices we didn’t have way back when.


27 posted on 07/23/2012 2:14:48 AM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: djone
I loved these "Banana Boards" when they first came out around 1974 /75, I believe I ended up with every color


28 posted on 07/23/2012 3:53:01 AM PDT by StayoutdaBushesWay (Every man dies, but not every man really lives.)
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It was a Reagan for Governor campaign sticker on the bottom of my skateboard but the pool looks familiar.

Those were really good days in California.

29 posted on 07/23/2012 9:18:26 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: djone

I still have the one that I made from a 1 x 6 and an old steel skate in about 1964.


30 posted on 07/23/2012 9:31:22 AM PDT by rightly_dividing (We are Scott Walker.)
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To: Army Air Corps

My kids have a hard time believing we had skateboards when we were kids. They think they’re a recent invention. And we used pieces of plywood to skimboard in puddles after rain. If only we had patented them!


31 posted on 07/23/2012 11:52:18 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: StayoutdaBushesWay

I remeber those!


32 posted on 07/23/2012 12:04:01 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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