I’ve seen it when one of the shop emps took me there in search of wind, a new two in each direction blacktop that begged to be ridden.
But that’s 23 miles from my house, I’ve gotten old and fear big crashes on pavement, and here in Berkeley, there’s plenty of really rough steep windy roads to conquer if I was man enough to be up for the challenge.
My idea of skateboarding nowadays is downhill transport after breakfast with a trick deck, Indies set loose, and scooter 78cm wheels…at about joggin speeds.
have one in decent condition(used as a trailer support in a garage for 20 years) it’s tiny some one i talked to who say it and knew about the 70’s board said it was state of the art trucks and wheels, thank you uncle. we had a pink one like it but that has disappeared.
hearing you mention ‘pink’ , reminded me of the horror moulded plastic banana yellow decks [“Grentec” ?? I think they might have been ?] which , as was commented earlier, were waaay too short and narrow to really be able to do anything on !
(So, thank goodness for Wes Humpston , Jim Muir , wider trucks , sealed ball bearings , urethane wheels, and the pool riding brigade …)
here’s a quiver , c 1977? [“Dogtown Skates”… Wes Humpston designs] …Herb Spitzer , are you lurking ?? I’d like to hear YOUR take on the 70s skate designs…
OK I just found these in the State Library Archives, some bit$h I worked with threw out my old cuttings so I scored these from microfich, sneaked the work digcam in so I didn’t have to pay for crappy photocopying…my times have changed, I used to be really fit then too…
1978 dig those trucks and fats on the back, awesome stuff…
1979, I think the reporter used some journalistic license, I was never a NSW champ…Just lived there for a while…
I used to organise the WA Skateboard Championships in both these years, raising money for Telethon, sick kids etc, built the first 1/4 pipe in the state 12’ high, top fun too.
On the
topic of 70s boards, I was thinking there might be someone here who could actually
answer a question I’ve been wondering about for a while.
I recently did my best to duplicate my board from ~77, a Haut
Lamaflex, Kevin Niccoli model. (To answer the original posted question, it was about 30" long, 8.5" wide, flat deck, but had some rocker and a mild kicktail).
tried the sand idea and grounded down edges by the wheels so they dont bite. Hopefully this will help me stop fallin which is really hard to do in this board.
by cutting the rollerskate's plate in half,transverse............creating two separate axles
.................all you need is one side/shoe,not both skates unless you were building two skateboards ........whether it be a shoe/boot or outdoor step-in ajustable type rollerskate
..................then it's attaching to a board...............thus skateboarding was born.
