Originally Posted by Oly Galen
Thanks for the welcome and encourgement all! Actually was skating in the early 60's, a Red Wing (i think that's what they were called) with steel wheels! Then a ridiculous 4 ft clay wheeled "Sidewalk Surfer"
Since I lived on the beach, we mostly surfed/body surfed/skim boarded, skate boards were mostly for transportion. I got my first car right about when poly wheels first came out, so skating dissapeared. I did get to ride some pools though. I got a serious wrist injury climbing that laid me off for a few months and my partners brother talked me into looking for pools, ditches and catch basins etc..was a blast. I think it was the same drought summer they talk about in Lords of Dogtown. Healed up and went back to climbing. So were you skating or surfing in the 70's?
Lessee, skates were those old steel ones w/ a skate key so you could clamp them over your sneakers. Since most of the kids didn't have one, I'd use one and give another to a friend and we'd both roll around on one rollerskate. Then I got a skateboard w/ poly wheels and sucked, but kept at it anyways and after a couple years, still sucked. Good thing I never gave up riding my bike. Surfing was what kids did in those movies that took place in California. Being from NYC, running from cops and criminals and fighting to keep the older kids from taking our stickball bats from us on the playgrounds was what we did.
