At which points throughout history has skateboarding been cool in YOUR neighbourhood?

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There seems to be no geographical consistency to this.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

During my lifetime: 1989-91 ish and 2000-now.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

never

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

archel's dates are pretty much right for me too, although i'd probably extend it into 1994-ish, and i also remember it being fairly popular in the early 80s although my memory is too fuzzy to say for sure.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Probably 1988ish too - we all had skateboards until they got destroyed by our ROLLICKING WAYS.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

we lived on a big hill, so we would lay down on our skateboards and ride them in the style of popular olympic sporting event THE LUGE. we then used our feet to stop us before crashing. i had many a pair of chunk taylors with holes burned into the backs of the soles from trying to stop myself @ 60 mph of squealing rubber on blacktop action!!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

"chunk taylor" sounds like a 60s frat rock band leader.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 14:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

I burned the soles out of my Keds Chuck-Taylor-rip-off shoes on the day that my mom bought them for me. I got in trouble. My dad tried to rebuild the heel with rubber cement, which looked dumb, and then I had to wear them anyways. But not for long.

― Nick A., Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

skateboarding was cool before snowboarding, nu-metal, rollerblading and Tony Hawk Pro Skater.

when I was in junior high (mid-90's) you were either a skater a jock or a nerd. my friends determined that i was 1/3 each. i never skated, but i appreciated the public mischief aspects of it, and my friends were soo cool in their slouched, stoner poses.

skateboarding is no longer associated with the reclamation of (sub)urban space, (thanx to skate parks, maybe). now its a sport, and sports are dumb.

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

it was cool when i started doing it and became uncool when i stoped it, man

― vic (vicc13), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

1992, and now!

I think I would be a skater kid if I were still young!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 15:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

dont jel, skaters sux0r

― vic (vicc13), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

it looks like fun, I mean all these nerdy kids hanging out with girls! That sorta thing never happened in my day!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

i spent my first week at comprehensive with my collarbone in a sling after a frEEk sk8teb04rd aXXident. that was, er, 1978.

andy

― koogs, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

its not fun, they smell, including the girls

― vic (vicc13), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Right after I stopped skateboarding. hah!

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 17:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

1972/3. That was the first 'urban surfing' type craze that happened, in north London at least. My best friend (hi Colin and thanks for introdcuing me to dub) at the time was an expat from west coast USA and crazy for it.

― jon (jon), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 07:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

80' 90's and now. but now high speed longboarding is the urban and sub-urban guerilla sport that street skating used to be!!!!! Go kick flip while I take over a mountain road standing up at 60 mph.

― d, Friday, 30 April 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago) link

ditto to above.

The mexican kids in my neigborhood are big into street skating.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 30 April 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

Hong Kong 1978

I was king of the bunny hops

― holojames (holojames), Saturday, 1 May 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago) link

It was "popular" when my brother skated in the late 90's. I actually filmed a video documentary (not a skate video) about his skating obsesssion.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

Orange County? Think skateboarding is cool? Oh go on.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

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