Legend has it that skateboarding was born sometime in the mid 1940s when some inventive Californian teenagers tried to figure out a way to surf when the waves weren’t big enough.
The Birth of Skateboarding
Posts Tagged: Sports
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Los Angeles, World Capital of Teen Fandom
Teenage is screening today at ArcLight Doc Fest in Los Angeles, so here’s a chronological compilation of LA teens doing what they do best — fawning over entertainers of all kinds in the entertainment capital of the world (the above photo is a Bee Gees concert in 1979!).
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Footballers, 1938
Portrait of the footballer as a young man.
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Baby Bobby
Bobby Fischer was just 13-years-old when he defeated American chess master Donald Byrne in 1956, marking the beginning of an extraordinary but difficult chess career.
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Uganda Sk8
Ten years ago, most Ugandan teens had never heard of skateboarding.
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80s Ladies
Young ladies of the 1980s loved RUSH, Pac Man, Mickey Mouse, sk8boarding and short shorts.
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Carlisle Indians
‘Greatest Athlete of the Twentieth Century ‘ Jim Thorpe got his start on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School team.
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Mascot Mania
Theatrical, spirited, and oversized—what would high school sports be without their Eagles, Bobcats, or Black Knights?
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At Play
For two generations family owned Scurlock Studio photographed Washington DC’s African American community.