Skateboards!

The first skateboard fad hit in the 60’s.  The generation before me cruised down streets in metal wheels,

that made for a rough ride!   The boards were skinny, solid wood. If you can find them at estate sales, they

are fun to hang in a garage or mancave.  Very retro….By the 70’s, the wheels were updated at made with a

strong resin, and the trucks and boards got WIDER.    One cool company was called Powell and Peralta, they

sold these white wheels called Bones.  These were fun and easy to ride.  My neighborhood had a vacant lot, and some 

kids built a wood ramp. This was common all across the US, at that time.  Parents were kind of hands off, and let kids be 

kids, so vacant lots were kind of allowed to be informal playgrounds.   We spent hours going up and down these ramps, 

good clean fun….good times! Skaters were often free spirits that didn’t want to follow all the rules of traditional sports.

I skated all around LA, probably for a solid 5 years, and gradually you learn this really cool philosophy of ” you do your 

thing, and i’ll do mine “.   Its a way of letting everyone skate their own free form style, or live their life in a unique and 

creative way.  As long as no one is getting harmed…..what do the kids say now?   It’s all good!!