Category: 1970s
-
Deanna Calkins
In 2020, Deanna Calkins was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame and her bio provides a thorough history of her impact. What is also worth noting is how Deanna advocated for amateur women skateboarders and was part of the massively popular Wednesday “Girls Night” events in the late 1970s at Runway skatepark in Carson,…
-
Cindy Berryman
Cindy Berryman will be the first to tell you that the real skateboarder of her family was little sister Ellen Berryman, seven years younger. And yet, Cindy played a crucial part in promoting and advocating for women in skateboarding in the 1970s and deserves recognition. In Ellen’s story for the book, Lives on Board (2009,…
-
Kim Kinsley
Kim Kinsley was a Blue Sky Skatepark Team member out of Albuquerque, New Mexico and appears briefly in the January 1978 issue of the National Skateboard Review, practising her freestyle moves with a smile. She had also been part of a group photo for her team in the September 1977 issue, in a feature article…
-
Judi Oyama
Judi Oyama’s history as both a pioneer for women skateboarders in the 1970s and for her current accomplishments in her sixties, as she continues to compete in slalom and downhill to this day, demands respect! You can listen to her story here on YouTube, launched on International Women’s Day 2023 for Santa Cruz: It all…
-
Peggy Turner
In The Florida Times (May 9, 1980), Peggy Turner shared that she had begun skateboarding at age 14 for fun. “It was a fad everybody seemed to be doing… Then I really started enjoying it and then I got good. Now I want to skate for a long time.” Peggy’s home skatepark was the legendary…
-
Dodie Hackemack (Johnson)
In an early issue of the National Skateboard Review (April 1976), a small blurry photo of Dodie Hackemack appears racing slalom at the 2nd annual Skateboard Championship hosted by the Recreation Department of Ventura, California. The course was created using traffic cones for approximately 80 yards. Hackemack placed first for Junior Women ahead of Kim…
-
Denise Fleming
Denise Fleming is a skateboarder who went pro back in 1976 and continues to skate! These days she has many tattoos, vibrant dyed hair, a rad style, and epitomizes true commitment to skateboarding especially considering the ordeal she went through after a random drive-by shooting incident in 2004. Denise first appeared in the Long Beach…
-
Julie Cheng
Julie Cheng appears briefly but successfully in a handful of contest results in the late 1970s. She is listed in August 1978 as a Pro Rider from Citrus Heights, CA by the International Skateboard Association, riding for Cal. Pro. In the November 1977 issue of the National Skateboard Review, Cheng places first at the California…
-
Brenda Devine
Brenda Devine started out competing as an amateur in the spring of 1978, but soon became selected for the very first Powell skateboard team, as their first sponsored female rider. She rode for Powell for a year-and-a-half, just in time for her first pro event. Brenda came third in Women’s Pipe behind Terry Lawrence and…
-
Robin Logan
Robin Logan was raised in Hermosa Beach, California by her mom Barbara along with three older brothers. She watched Brian, Bruce and Brad surf and skate everyday, and at four-years old Bruce set her up on a skateboard. Robin shared in Skateboarder that, “When I was seven, we would do demos in department stores… Bruce…
Womxn Skateboard History 