Your 1st Skateboard

My Pa and I built a launch ramp, I was strictly street so didn't f with quarters/vert.

As and aside, they're building a skate park 5 mins from my house w a concrete bowl.

 

My first real board was a hand me down fiberglass Hobie.

The first board I bought was a JFA (Jody Foster's Army) With blue, pink, and black Paisley Graphics. Purple Nose Bone, Purple Tail Bone, Purple 'Gator Ribs, pink risers and Tracker Ultra-light trucks. Bones wheels. Yeah.... I remember it a little...

 

There is one parking garage in Melbourne I think (at least as of 2001), on the corner of us1 and Melbourne ave, good ramp for cruising down, biggest hill in Brevard county lol get on it dsup

 

Wow...i found it.



Slightly different my background color was blue not red.....and it was a "slick".

Ironically, my second board was the famous missing link AWS board. And I just bought a new missing link deck a few months ago....22 years later. Totally geeked out and my wife couldn't understand how cool it was

 

Dudes what were those catalogues, CCS?

 

no more "concrete" bowls for me!

 

CCS was my porn.

 

I still have mine up on the cave shelf. Good thread!

 

42 inch Dregs longboard, with gullwing trucks, and Kryptonics rollerskate wheels

 

My first was a Veraflex in the late 70s that was very similar to today's Penny boards but with a wood deck. From there I went to a Sims with Gullwing trucks around 1982. That one was just like pictured below. Still have that deck somewhere. I believe its collectible now.

 

After my Nash Tuff Top and my Vari-flex Wired, my first real board was a Mike McGill. A friend had a huge half pipe with a platform and a channel, but I couldn't skate it. I was into BMX and dirt bikes and never learned how to skate that ramp. If I could go back, I would have definitely taken full advantage of it.

My 9 year old just asked for a skateboard for her birthday. Picked up a Flip - Lance Mountain. A little old school throwback, but of course sh is clueless as to who he is.

 

first deck:

new deal / montessi



sk8ed the local bank parking lot

 

1962, first skateboard, crappy metal wheels, cheap wood. Cost $4.95.

Then @1965 a new kind of board with new kind of wheels with ball bearing, polyurethane (?) or some hard rubbery wheel, hit the market. I saved up the $45 for months. That thing could glide down hills...

There was no such thing as skate parks. No safety gear... Those days you spent the whole day cruising neighborhood, making up tricks, crazy stuff.