aint I so cool ****30 photos at site**** Mine was a plank with pieces of on old metal wheeled skate nailed on. I "skinned" every part of me but the back of my head...
aint I so cool ****30 photos at site**** Mine was a plank with pieces of on old metal wheeled skate nailed on. I "skinned" every part of me but the back of my head...
ouch dang itContemporary skateboards are like a Roadmaster compared to those early skateboards.
Son, why is all the water out of the pool?
Pops was not real happy about that one.
My first broken bone!
same here...I had (still have, actually) a “Tresco Skee-Skate”.
Mine was a plank with pieces of on old metal wheeled skate nailed on. I “skinned” every part of me but the back of my head...
Same here and it wasn’t even mine! LOL
I was my Uncles
Mine was a plank with pieces of on old metal wheeled skate nailed on. I “skinned” every part of me but the back of my head...
Same here and it wasn’t even mine! LOL
I was my Uncles.
He had a BB gun too.
That was a real trick riding that POS with a BB gun LoL
The funny part was that Mom who is horrified by this stuff now, used to ride the same steel skates before they were nailed to a board, while she was hanging onto a rope off the bumper of a 36 ford LOL
My dad helped us make our own, boards with skate wheels.I still can see my sister going down the hill with that dachshund she loved so much. That beast rode skateboards and in her bicycle basket with ears flapping in the breeze and a worried look. The boards were horrible but the memories are good. Perhaps if dogs are allowed in heaven and you can chose to be a kid on occasion, they are both riding still. I think that may be a pagan concept of heaven that you spend it doing what brought you joy in life, but I like it.
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.
very cool. what neighborhood? i grew up lower east side in the 60’s.
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.
I still have the one that I made from a 1 x 6 and an old steel skate in about 1964.