Monday, December 6, 2021

In 1960 we took metal wheeled roller skates apart and nailed or screwed them to the bottom of a 2 by 4 and created Skateboards

 


Rare Vintage Photos of What Life Was Like in the ’50s

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Roller Skating, The Limbo, and Hula Hooping Were Popular Pastimes

Roller skating was a popular pastime for kids in the 1950s. The photo here shows two young girls sitting on a curb putting on a pair of skates. Notice how they kept their shoes on and simply attached the metal skates to the bottom of them. A key was required to tighten the skates to the feet. It wasn’t until 1979 that skates transformed into rollerblades.

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What did kids do for fun in the ’50s? Typical games included a limbo contest, bubble-gum blowing contest, or hula hoop contest. A popular party game was Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Families also enjoyed watching Name That Tune on TV.

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IN 1960 no one made skateboards professionally yet. First Surf Board shops starting making them by taking apart roller skates and mounting them on mini wooden Boards that looked like surfboards.

But, before that we made them ourselves if we were 10 or older by mounting metal roller skate wheels on pieces of lumber that we cut. Then boys in junior high had wood shop then and some made mini surfboards and mounted the metal skates on those custom made mini surfboards so they could (ride the waves) on the sidewalks then in Los Angeles where Skateboards first began then around 1960.

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