Tag: Skateboard History
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Amanda Kitt
Amanda Kitt is most recognizable for her street-skating cameo in the Villa Villa Cola video called Getting Nowhere Faster (2004), and for a feature interview in Issue 14 of Check it Out: skateboarding 4 girls magazine from 2003, where it was noted that she was age 16, sponsored by Lee Lee skateboards and on flow…
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Skateboarding is for Me
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the variety of digitized 1970s skateboarding books on the Internet Archive, including Skateboarding is For Me (1978 Lerner Publications) by Lowell A. Dickmeyer with photos by Daniel E. Gross. I had briefly flipped through the book in the hour before launching my book at Antisocial Skateshop, since it’s part of Michelle…
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Shirley McLelland
In the October 1983 issue of Thrasher, there’s mention of one Shirley McLelland competing against the amateur guys in the “tight slalom” contest at the Southern California Summer World Series finals at Del Mar. Shirley placed 11th out of 14 and I was relieved to see her name considering what happened a few years prior.…
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Jane Panagiotis
Jane Pan (short for Panagiotis) began skateboarding in 1968 and even appeared in an ad for the Watershed Skate / Surf Shop out of Rhode Island in the July 1988 issue of Thrasher (*shout out to editor, Michael Burnett for the heads up) giving a nod to the shop’s “hardcore roots.” What I love about…
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Happy Holidays 2025
This festive photo, published on December 22, 1975, features Wayne McKeown, age 12, from Annandale, CA, transporting his Christmas tree by skateboard. That’s 50 years ago to the day… woah. Photo: Martin James Brannan Wishing everyone a lovely holiday and a happy new year! I managed to cram in one more last-minute interview last week…
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Àngels Borrell
Àngels Borrell was 13 years old in 1978 when her skateboarding story began near Barcelona, Spain. And decades later, in her forties and fifties, she continued to skate thanks to a reunion with her childhood friends. Àngels also became a key resource when a dedicated crew of skaters began a movement to unearth the very…
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Patty Segovia AGSJ
Patty Segovia (Krause) was born and raised in Los Angeles and is revered for being the organizer and promoter of the All Girl Skate Jam (AGSJ) from 1997-2013, as well as a photographer. The AGSJ started out in 1990 as a girls’ vert demo at an NSA contest in Reno, Nevada, before returning with a…
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Stefanie Åkesson
Stefanie Åkesson (she/her) is from Falun, Sweden and has a long legacy of competitive skateboarding and an inspiring story. Her full list of contest wins can be found on her website such as being the Swedish freestyle champion over fifteen times! Stefanie explained via Facebook that “I got my first skateboard August 28, 1978. But…
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Louisa Hawton
Louisa Hawton, aka “Bang Bang Lulu” or “The Smiling Assassin” is best known for being a professional boxer, World Boxing Council (WBC) champion fighter, and 2019 Supreme Boxing Female Fighter of the Year, among many other boxing-related titles, and I’m not surprised to learn that she was also a ripping skater in the early 2000s.…
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Lynnette Fraas
Lynnette Fraas was a competitive freestyle skateboarder in the 1970s, sponsored by Banzai skateboards, whose name started to appear in contest results in 1976. She is from San Diego and attended Mission Bay Senior High (1978-1980). At the 2nd Annual Amateur Freestyle contest in Oceanside on July 11, 1976 there were 2000 spectators according to…
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