Category: 1980s

  • The Hags

    The Hags

    This hardcore all-female skate crew was launched in 1983 and was the inspiration of Sevie Bates and her punk friends living in West Los Angeles. Bates had received her first skateboard in the early 1970s at age 9 – a wooden board with clay wheels called, “The Black Knight” and she was an inspiration to…

  • Debbie McAdoo

    Debbie McAdoo

    The “Ramp Ranch” began as a quarter-pipe in 1978 in Debbie McAdoo’s driveway, near Atlanta, Georgia. McAdoo wrote an article about its evolution and demise in the October 1981 issue of Thrasher. The photos accompanying the article were taken by Mike Folmer. Photo c/o Chuck Holts (Georgia Spillway, 1979). The local crew called themselves the Rancheros…