Skateboarding, 1960s

retronaut ^ | Bill Eppridge

[djone]

Skateboarding in the 60's

[djone]

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...

[djone]

ouch dang it

[Army Air Corps]

Contemporary skateboards are like a Roadmaster compared to those early skateboards.

[skeeter]

Nothing felt like the ride of those steel wheels & no suspension.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Son, why is all the water out of the pool?

Pops was not real happy about that one.

[Species8472]

LOL! Mine was a 2X6 with the two ends of a metal rollerskate attached.

My first broken bone!

[Army Air Corps]

My early childhood was in the 1970s and I recall those narrow boards. Then, sometime the in 1980s, the boards become the size of a surfboard.

[South40]

This was my first skateboard, circa, 1971.

[djone]

....Then there was always this guy (notice those shoes)

[Chode]

same here...

[truth_seeker]

In the 60s skateboards were for hodads that couldn’t surf.

[aruanan]

Then there was always this guy (notice those shoes)

The guy who slipped and bit his tongue off?

[djone]

..Uh what water?

[blackd77]

I had (still have, actually) a “Tresco Skee-Skate”.

[Impala64ssa]

Immortalized in song, thanks to Jan and Dean

[mylife]

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

[mylife]

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

[mylife]

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

[mylife]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiobsK63SwU

[dog breath]

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.