Archive for the ‘Board Sports’ Category
Florida – Recently, about midnight, a pair of skateboarders rolled quietly past my house, talking softly as they went south. My jealousy has waned over the years, but it reminded me of just how fortunate they are to live in the era of urethane skateboard wheels.
In the mid-1960s, we adopted California’s new skateboard culture for the same reasons it took off there. It was fun and helped fill the time during spells of flat surf. Commercial skateboards were slow to make it here, so we made our own. Pawn shops often had … More