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Skateboard-like vehicle made
"The first known skateboard type product is a three-wheeled, stamped metal device with pedal-car like wheels, and an adjustable heel cup and toe clip. Usually sold in pairs with a set of poles, they are apparently designed to mimic cross-country skiing. It has a 3" by 10" riding surface, and no steering mechanism"
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Scooter Skate Made
"Another three-wheeled device, the "Scooter Skate" is a skateboard/scooter hybrid; it can be ridden with its included handle or without. The bulbous rocket-ship style metal deck has a riding surface of 6 1/2" by 13", with steel roller-skate style wheels. There is no turning or steering mechanism."
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Skeeter Skate Made
"A four-wheeled device made from aluminum, the "Skeeter Skate" is created around 1945. With a 4 3/8" by 15 3/4" riding surface, this scooter comes with a removable handle and pedal-car style wheels. This device introduces a unique innovation, the first steering axles, or "trucks," which allow riders to turn for the first time"
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First Homemade Skateboard
Peter Parken rides a wooden planks on roller skating trucks
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Skateboard Invented
Skateboarding is born in California. Surfers couldn't surf in the winter so they used wooden planks on wheels, it was originally known as "Surfing the Sidewalk".
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ValSurf Manufactured Board
In Southern California, ValSurf designs and manufactures its own skateboard.
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Skateboard Popularity Skyrockets
"companies like Jack's, Hobie and Makaha started holding skateboarding competitions. At this time, skateboarding was mostly either downhill slalom or freestyle."
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Pool-Skating Becomes Popular
Most skaters stay to streets or sidewalk, but some start skating in empty swimming pools.
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Skateboard Popularity Plumits
Most people leave the art of skateboarding, but some continue. Most skaters now have to make their own equiptment due to companies dying out
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New Wheel Design
Frank Nasworthy invented urethane wheels. These wheels are similar to ones used today.
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Skateboard Specific Trucks Are Made
Ron Bennett builds trucks that are made just for skateboards
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New Skateboard Trucks
Mike Williams, a pro surfer and slalom skater, makes a new design for skateboard trucks. The Gull Wing features a split-axle design.
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Ollie Invented
Alan Gelfand invents the Ollie
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Skating's Second Popularity Dive
Insurance rates shoot up, forcing many parks to close.
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Underground Skating
"Skaters continue to skate, but in a more underground way. Small privately owned skateboard companies pop up, owned by skaters. These small companies encourage creativity in designs. Skateboarding evolves into an even more personal style of expression"
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Skate Videos
Stacey Peralta films the first of a long series of skateboarding videos.
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Stereo Skateboards
Stereo Skateboards is founded, producing plastic decks instead of wooden ones.
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WCS
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First X-Games
"ESPN held their first Extreme Games, in Rhode Island. This first X Games was a huge success, and helped pull skateboarding closer to the mainstream, and closer to being accepted by the general population "
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ISF
International Skateoarding Federation is founded. ISF takes the lead trying to get skateboarding added to the Olympics.
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Go Skateboarding Day
International Association of Skateboard Companies Founds Go Skateboarding Day.
http://skateboard.about.com/od/skateboardinghistory/tp/Skateboard_History_Timeline.01.htm
