Tag: mysteryskater
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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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New York mystery 1978
In Skateboard World magazine for December 1978, there’s an article about the scene in New York called, “Skating in the Big Apple” by Mark Diamond and Charles Feldman. In Brooklyn, there was a team called “Performance Skateboard” which met up at Prospect Park, even though it wasn’t an actual skateboard park, and more of just…
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Patti – Kanoa Surf
A girl named “Patti” was documented by the photographer Albert Moote on June 20th, 1976 skateboarding “The Channell” in the Hollywood Hills area. She’s cruising around the banks, including one spray-painted with graffiti calling it “The Jammer’s Wall.” Before I noticed Patti’s name, I thought these were photos of Cara-Beth Burnside since she has a…
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Mystery Christmas Kids
Whatever seasonal festivity you’re celebrating, may you be part of something that brings joy and love to others… especially a fellow skateboarder! Thanks to everyone who has shown support for this project or shared cool photos and memories. I’m grateful! In the meantime, it’s snowing and pouring slush rain up in the Pacific Northwest without…
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Mystery Jacksonville Skaters
In an article within the Florida Times-Union (May 17, 2022) about the evolution of skateboarding in Jacksonville, Florida, a 1977 photo appears featuring Michelle Thibodeau and Ellen Moomaw by Joe Caldwell. The girls are skating barefoot across a sketchy wall of slabbed concrete on the side of an Interstate 10 overpass (near McDuff and Post…
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Marina Gera
In the 1960s, skateboarding was taking off as not only an alternative activity for surfers but an accessible and social activity for all youth that wasn’t dependent on access to waves. In the same issue of Skateboarder magazine that features the legendary Pat McGee on the cover (October 1965), there’s a small photo of Marina…
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