Category: 1970s
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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…
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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…
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Celebrity Skaters
There’s no doubt that skateboarding is cool, so it’s inevitable that celebrities are going to want to give it a go. Over the years, we’ve seen an interesting mix of actresses take part and I have to ask, who “wore it better?” The most surprising actress has to be the elegant Katharine Hepburn, and it’s…
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Edie Robertson
Edie Robertson from Santa Barbara was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in 2019 for her diverse skills across all skateboarding disciplines and competitive results in the 1970s. Born in 1962, she was just a toddler when skateboarding first appeared, but she was ready to roll into the second wave, trying out her friend’s…
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Mystery Skater – Laurie
According to The Guardian, these photos are of “Laurie” at Hermosa Beach, CA practically levitating off her board (which is a baffling photo in itself) and then being hounded by a cop in Redondo Beach. The photographs are by Spot who was a musician / photographer living in Hermosa Beach and became known as a…
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Terry Lawrence
The legacy of pro skater Terry Lawrence (@silvereagletraders) and his skateboarding journey is awesome. In his own words, “My name’s Terry Lawrence. I’m 57 years-old, my pronouns are he/him/his and I’m transgender. I was a professional skater in the ‘70s and early part of the ‘80s, when I was skating, I was skating as a…
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Robin Alaway-Lerum
Robin Alaway was a skateboarder in the mid-1970s who became sponsored by R.A.C.O., a Los Angeles skateboard company, providing demonstrations for them at hardware stores from Texas to New Mexico, before moving on to the Logan Earth Ski team, and launching a UK brand called “Skuda.” While her style channeled her background as a dancer,…
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Canon “Bunny” Price
By the mid-to-late 1970s the skateboarding contest circuit in the U.S., particularly in California, was becoming well established and Canon “Bunny” Price was part of the scene. Canon explained that the nickname came about because “I was always jumping off loading docks behind the Torrance supermarkets,” and it seemed to stick as her contest results…
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Lynne Grosse
Lynne Grosse from Adelaide, Australia was given a nickname – “the underdog from Down Under” after she turned up at the Magic Mountain Masters Contest in Valencia, California in May 1976 and won the freestyle event! She had never been outside of southern Australia before being invited to the U.S. and was only 15 years…
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Kim Cespedes
Kim Cespedes started surfing in sixth grade at Imperial Beach in San Diego and lived in Hawaii for a few years before re-locating to Northern California at the end of Junior High. In a 2018 article for Vogue magazine, she explained that “Surfing really is my first love. It’s what made me a great skateboarder”—and…
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