Posted on 07/22/2012 10:03:32 PM PDT by djone
Skateboarding in the 60's
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.
lol — good old dachsunds. They are masters of the worried look.
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.
That little guy with the skateboard under his left arm is holding a true 60’s skateboard.
very cool. what neighborhood? i grew up lower east side in the 60’s.
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!
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.
Those were really good days in California.
I still have the one that I made from a 1 x 6 and an old steel skate in about 1964.
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!
I remeber those!
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