Tag: Unity Skateboards
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Child Prodigies 1970s
Child prodigy skateboarders are fascinating, especially today in this highly visible realm of competition leading up to the Olympics. Back in the 1960s, since skateboarding was essentially branded a child’s toy, the majority of skaters were kids, while in the 1970s most of the sponsored pros were teenagers. There’s several names of youngsters that appear…
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Debi Eldredge
Debi Eldredge (sometimes misspelled “Debbie Eldridge”) was on the Unity Skateboard team back in the mid-1970s along with her friend Andra Malczewski and Mary Zerkie. Debi and Andra were revered by Laura Thornhill, as they were the first female skaters that she rode with on Hermosa Beach, and Thornhill originally dreamed of being sponsored on…
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Andra Malczewski
Andra Malczewski is from Encinitas, California and lived in South Bay, Hermosa Beach, graduating from Torrance High School in 1971. In the mid-1970s at age 20, Andra competed in all skateboarding disciplines and was sponsored by Unity Skateboard Team (AKA Unity SurfSkate shop from Hermosa). In an interview for Juice Magazine (Dec. 2008) legendary skater…
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Jennifer Dimon (Coppa)
On September 26, 1975, Jennifer Dimon (Coppa) at age 7 was in the limelight for a feature article by Jim Hart within the San Pedro News Pilot. Hart wrote that, she “already has a closetful of trophies for her exploits on a board with rollerskates. Just last week Jennifer won a first place and two…
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