Category: Mystery
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Stephanie Massey
Stephanie Massey was a novelty in the late 1980s and early 1990s during a time when skateboarding pushed a stereotype of being an activity for delinquent boys. Very few “respectable” parents would permit their daughters to pursue skateboarding. Photo: Stephanie in Poweredge June 1989. Fortunately, Stephanie’s parents, Dan or “Danny” and Ruth Massey were already…
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Betty and Train Trax zines
In the 1990s, the Riot Grrrl Movement, which originated in Olympia, WA, in the Pacific Northwest was a rallying cry for female punk musicians who were sick of the sexism and misogyny rampant in the punk scene, that created unsafe and toxic environments for women. They communicated their manifesto through DIY zines and at their…
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Pink Punk Australia
In the July 1996 issue of TransWorld Skateboarding magazine there was an article about a tour to Australia which included photos of a female skateboarder whom I’ve dubbed “pink punk” because of her dedication to pink and badass aesthetics. In my efforts to claw through decades worth of skate magazines I rarely pay any attention…
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Gerry Bowden
A photo from 1965 of a crew of young skateboarders hanging out from the Polk County History Center based in Bartow, Florida led me to their database to see if I could find out more about the girls who were included. Two of the skaters were named – Gerry Bowden and Paul Daniel III. I…
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Mystery 80s Big Hair Skaters
I once had a poster that adorned my dorm room wall advertising an All Girl Skate Jam from 2000 with the slogan “Big Air, Not Big Hair.” It was pretty catchy, and a bit of a diss on the 1980s obsession with teasing one’s hair and blasting it with hairspray and gel to maximize the…
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Pam Cox
I found this photo not long ago of Pam Cox skateboarding in both the Newport News Daily Press (August 22, 1978, p.3) and Culpeper Star Exponent (September 2, 1978, p.3) based out of Virigina. The photo was taken by Kenneth Silver and Pam was obviously living it up, dialed into the radio with her headset…
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1960s News Clippings Part 2
Every so often I do a deep-dive into newspaper clippings, which are often just average kids on the street having a good time. I have a new batch of photos and stories from the 1960s. Check out 1960s News Clippings Part 1 for the initial motherlode! Back to Top
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Rebecca Griffiths
In 1978, a maze-like concrete skatepark was opened in Chester, UK by Geoffrey Blythin called the “Inner City Truckers Skateboard Park” on Sealand Road, on the former site of the city’s Royalty Theatre. According to a news article by Ian Callister called “What would Marie Lloyd have made of kick-flips?”, there was one young girl…
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Beatriz Saens
Skateboarding in Mexico in the late 1970s was gaining in popularity among youth, with skateparks opening and companies like Pepsi sponsoring a local team, including a girl named Beatriz Saens. I had heard about Beatriz because Stephanie Fernández, who was the first Mexican girl’s National champion in 1979, mentioned skating with her. The two girls…
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NYC 1980s : Stana & Jessica
In 2010, an epic book was published called Full Bleed: New York City Skateboard Photography (MTV Press), edited by Alex Corporan, Andre Razo and Ivory Serra, followed up by a 10th Anniversary edition in 2022 with an additional 96 pages. While the skaters were predominantly male (with the exception of the Rookie team and Betty…
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