| One of the biggest crazes to ever hit
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| | Makaha's skateboard sales figures reached
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| children and teenagers of our generation
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| | the $4 million mark from 1963 to 1965,
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| has been skateboarding. But how many of
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| | which was truly a lot in those days.
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| you know that it actually started as
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| | However, by 1965, the skateboard fad was
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| early as the 1950s and its popularity
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| | over. Sales dropped significantly and the
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| coincided with the surfing mania in
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| | skateboarding magazine closed shop.The
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| California at that time? That's true. In
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| | second generation of skateboarders made
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| those early days, skateboards were all
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| | their presence felt in the early
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| homemade and made of wooden planks that
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| | seventies. It started when Frank
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| were attached to roller-skate trucks and
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| | Nasworthy was able to invent a skateboard
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| wheels. It wasn't even known as
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| | wheel made out of polyurethane, which
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| skateboarding yet, rather as "sidewalk
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| | gave skateboarders improved traction and
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| surfing." It's best practitioners were
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| | performance. The new product was such a
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| guys who simply imitated the styles and
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| | big hit that skateboarding became in
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| moves of the top surfers of the time.
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| | vogue among children and teens once again
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| Some people say skateboards merely
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| | as well as many young adults. More
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| evolved from "crate scooters" which
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| | companies tried to invent their own
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| looked exactly like a skateboard except
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| | skateboarding innovations, including
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| that it had handlebars like a regular
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| | special axles that were designed
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| scooter.When the sixties came around,
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| | specifically for skateboarding. And as
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| skateboarding began to really take off.
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| | the skateboards became more maneuverable
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| There were now skateboard manufacturers
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| | and controllable, the decks began getting
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| such as Hobie and Makaha which were
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| | wider -- as wide as 10 inches and
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| actually top surfing manufacturers. Their
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| | sometimes over. There was a lot of
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| early products looked much like the
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| | experimentation in skateboards at the
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| surfboards of the time. Skateboarding
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| | time, including the use of aluminum and
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| became so popular that a magazine
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| | fiberglass to replace the standard
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| dedicated to it was produced regularly.
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| | material for skateboards, maple plywood.
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| There was even an international
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| | Soon enough, the new craze was all about
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| skateboarding championship in 1965 that
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| | who could pull off the best tricks. And
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| was telecast on national television. In
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| | the best was yet to come.
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| terms of sales, records show that
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