Why did professional skateboarding arise in southern California in the 1970s? Was it a coincidence, or was it a perfect storm of multiple factors? It's fairly well-known that a drought in southern ...

Andy Kessler, who put sport on the map, died Monday after being stung by a wasp. Andy Kessler, a trailblazer during New York City’s nascent 1970s skateboarding scene and a designer of skate parks who ...

With more participants under the age of 18 than baseball, skateboarding is undoubtedly ingrained in our culture. And as the sport continues to grow in popularity, it's fun to look back on the early ...

Decades before X-Games and Olympic gold medals, skateboarding hit British streets like a counter-culture tsunami.

Ah, 1976 – the leap year that saw the U.S. Bicentennial, the birth of Apple Computer and the first successful Mars landing. And if you were into subculture it was a pretty groovy year for California ...

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