Your Guide to Skateboarding.
Skateboarding was first started in the 1950s, when all across the world children's got the idea of tryi'g to surf the streets. No One really knows who made the first board -- unless you got one dated -- instead, it seems that several people came up with similar ideas at the same time.
Several people have claimed to have invented the skateboard first, but nothing can be proved (see above), and skateboarding remains a strange spontaneous creation.
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Its about as strange as the "spontaneous creation" of a cream separator - Mr. Eli.
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But i have both . . . With provenance abundance.
Maybe if'n you're lucky . . . I'll take you for a ride. . . or churn you some butter . . . your choice.
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TSTT, I invented the skateboard, in 1954 when I was six. I lived at the top of a hill below the Hollywood Hills, a half mile above my school, and made the board to ride the sidewalks and streets to school. But they soon banned my board, teacher wouldn't let it in the classroom and they were afraid someone would step on it and crash. So I just went skating all the time after school instead.
I even made a sit down version with a box to sit in, really fun, like a mini Austin Healy. Got the idea from the really cool full steering and brake racing cart my older brother made. Those Burbank hills were ultimate for skating, pretty steep. I made others over the years, some really fast and dangerous ones. But the wheels were slippery unless they had rubber treads, and they were easy to wipe on. I went fast and straight a lot.
I'll take the cream, if your churning Mt. Meru...
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I don't skate, but sure love my shoes.
Any catch the Nike Pro Cup at the SPOT in Tampa? Or the De La Soul show after? Awesome this year, although De La called it in.
Charlie don't surf....