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Wooden Wheels Youtube clip
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On 9/17/2011 Paul Howard
wrote in from
United States
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Hey Cliffy, thanks for the headsup, that was pretty cool, plus it was fun watching a bunch of other vintage old 60's skateboard footage posted by various people..
Adios - Pauliwog
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Signal Hill Speed Run 1978
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On 6/29/2011
Mike
wrote in from
United States
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Hello! Mike here from Tunnel, and as many of you may know we are hard at work on a historical documentary about the Signal Hill Speed Run. We have collected tons of great stuff and had a great time meeting the pioneers of this sport who raced there. We are still looking for photos/footage of just a couple important things that happened at the race in 1978...Mark Bowden of Free Former crashing into a telephone pole, Nick Leonard of PowerFlex swerving to avoid somebody who tried to "catch" his skatecar, Tina's wipeout and a few other things. Any help/suggestions suggested, and thanks to all who have helped so far! Mike info@tunnelskateboards.com
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Metaflex Wheels.....A little History
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On 6/12/2011
Gary Bate
wrote in from
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I recently was talking to my son's friend who had just had a nasty longboard accident resulting in the usual road rash......"Tell Kyle about your skateboarding days Dad". Here's the story......back in 1971 I was a typical surf stoked grom growing up in Laguna Beach California, ow as some of you may know Laguna is hills all over, and I mean BIG WINDEY hills(some midwesterners might think of them as mountains). Well our primary form of transportation back then was a skateboard, "Top of the World" to the beach in 10 minutes! and then hitch a ride back to the top (easy and safe back then). Well we were riding homemade boards we built in Woodshop with Suregrip trucks and clay wheels and Loose Bearings! We made our boards by running a piece of oak thru the planer in shop till it was about 1/2" thick and then using clamps bent it over a 2"x2" upside down and then glassed the bottom with about 4 layers of glass, when the resin set up hey presto! most of the curve was retained(making for a lower center of gravity and punchier turns)and the flex was incredible and made the boards (almost)indestructible. Wow! We were Stoked. Of course we still had the problem of the clay wheels sliding around and burning up and falling apart on the long runs down "Temple Hills, Skyline and Park Avenue". Well when we could finally drive we used to take the big old, Pontiac Bonneville station wagon up to Costa Mesa to the all night Roller Skate Marathons......not that we liked to roller skate (we did)but it was a "fresh" source of girls for us to impress and hopefully get a make out sesh in the wagon, between drinking warm Old English 800 and trying not to fall on our asses while learning how to roller skate backwards! Now it occurred to us that: a.These Metaflex wheels gripped really good. b.That they were smooth and fast (they were huge). c.They might fit our skateboard trucks. Since I was the only with the money,. $30 back the I think for a set? of 4 I bought the first ones and put them on my board, they had three colors back then I recall; Yellow, soft and slower....Green, medium hardness.And Red, hard and fast. We all agreed yellow would be best as we were after "Grippy" and surely the huge size of these wheels would be waaaay faster than our puny little clay wheels. I'll never forget that first run down Temple Hills .....I did about a half dozen slalom turns, went probably 100yards in the blink of the eye and jumped off, handing over the board so all 3 or 4 of us there that day could experience the Magic that I just did, a day that forever changed our skateboard world. Within a couple of weeks every kid in Laguna had Metaflex wheels (mostly red by then)we showed them to the local surf shop Oak Street Surfboards and he started stocking them. within maybe 6 months Caddilac Wheels came out with purpose built Skateboard Wheels,Trucks and Sealed bearings. This all happened when I was 16 years old.....1972. So help me God, to the best of my recollection this is all TRUE. I am sure there are a few of my buddies out there who remember this...... Bill Heard Jr. Mark Kirsten, Mike Conner to name a few...... I am also sure that there were other kids out there in 1971'sh who had similar revelations about putting Metaflex roller skate wheels, on their skateboards too...........May be.
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"Wooden Wheels"
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On 2/26/2011
Cliff Coleman
wrote in from
United States
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Check youtube for this movie. Ten years before Dogtown! Hobie Team, north. Pipelines Team, and The Tucks Team. 1965. "Wooden Wheels".
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Radikal
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On 2/16/2011
Claude Regnier
wrote in from
Canada
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James Rad is alive and well. Go to the ISSA site to find out all about Slalom these days. slalomskateboarder.com
Mark is on Facebook as well many of the slalom racers.
Hope to meet you sometime.
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Radikall trucks. Mark mcCree
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On 2/16/2011
James caldwell
wrote in from
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I am James Caldwell. I skated for radikal in the late 70's looking to reconnect with salmon racing. mark McCree...... You still here????
James Caldwell
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1970's HUFFY Thunder Board Fiberglass Skateboard
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On 6/26/2010 d. allgeier
wrote in from
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Does anyone have information on the following;1970's Huffy Thunder Board Fiberglass Skateboard yellow top and bottom and measures 28" x 6" x 5/16" with buily in (part of the mold of the deck) risers. I have recently purchased an NOS one from Ebay and was wondering if anyone had any info on it as to what trucks and wheels it may have been set up with.http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/pict/320549727022.jpgIf you have any information on this please contact me at darkhorse251@verizon.netDennis
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Skate mag history
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On 4/25/2010 jacksonsnow
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I'd love to have one.
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Skate mag history
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On 10/29/2009 cliff coleman
wrote in from
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JBH,Yes I competed at Anaheim. So did Denis Shufeldt. Cliff
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Skate mag history
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On 10/29/2009 jbh
wrote in from
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Looks like only [i:n78y46xo]parts[/i:n78y46xo] of them are available there. Still worth it, though, for those who want a glimpse of what was in them.
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Skate mag history
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On 10/29/2009 sk8norcal
wrote in from
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[quote="Cliff Coleman":286n9vp5]Have any of you seen the very first skate magazine? "The Quarterley Skateboarder", Winter, 1964. Cliff Coleman[/quote:286n9vp5]Cliff, they are all available here...thx to whoever that upload them...http://vintageskateboardmagazines.com/S ... r1965.html
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Skate mag history
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On 10/28/2009 jbh
wrote in from
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I have! I have a copy of the first three issues. The only one I don't have is the fourth issue, with Pat McGee on the cover. Do I recall correctly that you skated at the Anaheim contest in '65, Cliff?
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Skate mag history
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On 10/28/2009 cliff coleman
wrote in from
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Have any of you seen the very first skate magazine? "The Quarterley Skateboarder", Winter, 1964. Cliff Coleman
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Skate mag history
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On 10/20/2009 jbh
wrote in from
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Wow, great stuff, Mig! I'm sure I've seen that site before but had completely forgotten about it. Thanks!
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Skate mag history
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On 10/20/2009 mig
wrote in from
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What up Jonathan!  According to vintageskateboardmagazines.com, Skateboard World ran from June 1977 to February 1979. I still have most of the ones featured on this page: [url:3uzd9qw6]http://vintageskateboardmagazines.com/Skateboard%20World%20%28USA%29.html[/url:3uzd9qw6]No specifications given for Wide World of Skateboarding. I have a few of them. They were harder to find in my neck of the woods back then. The last issue I have is the last one featured on this page: [url:3uzd9qw6]http://vintageskateboardmagazines.com/Skateboard%20World%20%28USA%29.html[/url:3uzd9qw6]
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Skate mag history
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On 10/19/2009 jbh
wrote in from
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Anyone know when the final issues of [i:jcjvb31i]Skateboard World[/i:jcjvb31i] and [i:jcjvb31i]Wild World of Skateboarding[/i:jcjvb31i] were published? I remember seeing [i:jcjvb31i]Wild World[/i:jcjvb31i] on the shelves at Target back when I was a kid, but I never had the money to buy them. I eventually wound up with a few issues of each and have some idea when they started, but how long did they last? And what were their respective last issues? Anyone?
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youtube "old school skateboard images"
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On 9/4/2009
buddy rawls
wrote in from
United States
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that air around 40 second second mark isn't on Indy trucks. Those are midtracks. I remember the name, but surely could not ID him. but it does look like an Indy air to me. We did things like that at our ditch in 77/78. there was not a good way to grab (no tranny to compress with), so all the grabs were done on the toe side, no matter if it was a fs or bs turn. They were essentially little hops that ended up as a lip slide or sometimes a board slide.
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1975 World Record
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On 9/2/2009
John Hughes
wrote in from
United States
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1975 I believe Guy Grundy road open ball bearing wheels, I will know for sure after ASR San Diego as he is bringing the org board to the display,
The Road to Signal Hill, as for the 1976 race, myself, Chuy, Guy, and Dave Dillberg all rode 4" open ball bearings made by IDI AKA: Power Paw
In 1977 there was everything in the 4" on standup and skatecars.
I will take pictures as will everyone at the show, so watch for proof of what was really at Signal Hill, Downhill rules
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old pics & 1975 downhill
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On 9/1/2009 dshufly
wrote in from
United States
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That old air shot w/indy's wouldn't have been Gunnar cuz' he was a
Tracker guy,...the way to find out about those wheels of Grundy would
be to talk to John Hughes @ www.skatewhat.com....John Hughes was a
downhiller from la costa who raced at Signal Hill,..a knee rider.
Peace Shufly
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old pics
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On 8/31/2009 herbn
wrote in from
United States
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saw something on utube, might not be news to some of you ,but search "old school skateboard images" about sec 43 there's a seminal "indy" air i think its probabely gunnar haugo ,could be wrong,maybe someone else. There's a couple of other early air shots,anybody with guess's or certain id's i have mine.
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1975 Downhill
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On 8/31/2009
buddy rawls
wrote in from
United States
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wasn't Guy Grundy's run down on loose-ball bearing wheels? I have seen some old footage of one of the fast cruising runs he did, and the wheels were definitely loose-ball bearing, but I did not recognize the wheel itself. They were about 3 to 3.5" diameter and quite thin. Very possible an industrial wheel of some sort.
Any of you older california guys with knowledge, chime in.
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1975 DOWNHILL RECORD
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On 8/27/2009
J
wrote in from
United States
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Everyone has a story, and not all are true, This one is:
1975 Signal Hill, Calif. first ever WORLD DOWNHILL SKATEBOARD RECORD
GUY GRUNDY 50.2 STAND-UP. Look where downhill is today.
EVERYONE HAS A STORY AND ALL ARE IMPORTANT IN THE WORLD OF SKATEBOARDING...
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vernon valley nj
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On 7/24/2009 mikey
wrote in from
United States
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thats my brother danny skating, thats me in the foreground vernon valley ' 77
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Rocky Mountain Surf
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On 7/14/2009
Dave
wrote in from
United States
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Wow what great memories. Sean was my age. Arnie and Robert were both older. Arnie managed the park when it was really hopping. He was at the top of his game. He saw Alan Gelfands picture in a magazine and went outside and started practicing. He had it in about a day. Two maybe three sessions tops in the front end of the first bowl. Then over to the half pipe and, boom up he went. Big balls for that era. He was the best at the time where he was for sure. Arnie was alway really encouraging to those around him. Made me skate harder and understand that pain was part of the process. Pain is just weakness leaving the body. Lets see....memories. Drunk skaters, hating bmx mokes because they weren't careful and on busy nights were a bit of a hazard even to good skaters. New ones really had trouble. I remember that we all were working on snow options. Arnie was hanging with the WinterStick guys and bindings were all immensely lame. We tried Velcro, bungies, Gnarly grip tape and combinations of the like. No one was into edges on the snowboards at that point except burton and we all hated that rope thing. I met Tom Sims and Chuck Barfoot around then and they took me boarding for the first time with their latest prototypes. At the time they were big plastic sled type things with a Brad Bowman skateboard bolted to the top of it. Most of the great skaters from that era did love to dissapear into the mountains and occasionally drift into the valley. In our defense there were no ski resorts in American that would let snowboards on lifts, we were all die hard climbers. It took a few times of climbing the snowy mountain to make a staircase but the first climb could go on for hours before the first ride. Steve Olsen came out once or twice to visit Arnie and boom........climb a snowy mountain with me. It was the winter side of the summer skatepark life. Truly a great memory. Long winded...sorry. Here's the only pic I have of Rocky Mountain Surf. Yours truly is an egomaniac and its the only one I have.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=43943863&albumID=433296&imageID=1380863
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That Magic Feeling
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On 6/15/2009
hc
wrote in from
United States
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The skateboard movie, That Magic Feeling is released by Jon Malvino. Shot in and around San Francisco and Marin
County, it features Kim Cespedes and Nick van Krydt.
anyone seen this?
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