Post #113577 by thejab on Fri, Sep 10, 2004 11:25 AM

I hate to show my age, but we used to make our own boards in high school in the 70s and put on Chicago trucks and Cadillac urethane wheels (remember those transparent yellow ones?). As soon as we heard about them we upgraded to Tracker trucks and OJ and Yo Yo wheels. Eventually I got tired of our long springy homemade boards and I bought a Fibreflex and a Gordon Smith wood kicktail. I bought all the Skateboarder magazines from issue #1 (and sold the lot for practically nothing in the 80s - doh!).

I remember my first visit to the new Carlsbad skate park, which might have been the first in California. I also skated the parks in El Cajon, Spring Valley, and Mission Valley. We tried an empty pool at Time Motel in La Mesa but I never got the hang of it's steep walls. My friend also had a half tube built in his back yard which was a blast.

I guess I'm a skategeezer.

http://www.interlog.com/~mbrooke/skategeezer.html

One day I just stopped riding - I think when I bought my Lambretta.

Don't get me started on BMX.