The skateboard fad of the 60s

10/21/06 - posted by Andy

Rosie has just sparked some memories in me which I think the younger skateboard generation would be interested in.

People tried skateboards in the early 1960s but not for very long. The wheels were made of metal and the metal got worn down very quickly like if you used it every day, in a few weeks they would be worn down.

Then all of a sudden in around 1967, they came out with better made, sleeker-looking skateboards that had some kind of hard plastic wheel instead of metal. That started a skateboard fad where everyone had to get one of these better looking, better made, longer lasting skateboards. They were called something like Macahas or something like that. I often wondered why they didn't put those better wheels on regular skates which I would have loved because regular skates also had those horrible metal wheels. Anyway, that fad lasted less than a year. I think we kids really didn't like it that much and so it just became another short-lived fad.

Today, the skateboarders of the sunset are much older like in their late teens and early 20s who are obnoxious asses who use people's homes to do tricks on and slam into their homes often times damaging their property and leaving marks on them from their stunts. You can hear them going by the streets every single day. They use the skateboard as their mode of transportation and that's fine but it's the total disregard for people's property that gives me high blood pressure. It's one thing if you have 10-year-old kids slamming into homes who don't know any better but when you have grown up adults doing this kind of crap then there is something really wrong going on. Of course, a lot of them are surely smoking dope every night so what is there to expect from such trash.