Tony Alva - 2009 Skateboarding Hall of Fame Inductee. Born in Santa Monica, California in 1957, Tony Alva developed a passion at a young age for surfing, skateboarding and rock ’n’ roll.

A lot of us are obsessed with vintage stuff nowadays, from clothes to music to generally wishing we had grown up in the 60s. We often forget, however, that our dear old parents were the ones who started all those trends we now admire.

Vol 5 Vintage Skateboard Magazine Advertising 70s 80s

Vol 3 Vintage Skateboard Magazine Advertising 70s 80s

The freeway was a blur of chrome and metal. Rushing. Frenetic movement. Everyone hurtling to nowhere. Tony Alva and I nimbly moved through traffic. We were going to skate a pool. As reggae music wa…

Skateboard culture in California in the 1970s has left an indelible mark on the sport and on America's cultural identity, and photographer Hugh Holland perfectly captured the spirit of this golden age in his beautiful photo album – Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978.

by ? | ca. 1960’s The skateboard has a wood board that has Surfer in red embossed on it also it has steel metal wheels appears. The deck measures 21 1/4" long all included by 5 1/4" wide at the widest...

A nice touch of nostalgia this morning, as we came across Bill Eppridge's skateboarding photos he took in New York City during the 1960s. Some of the...

Here’s a fun Flickr photostream from Txrelichunter dedicated to all things skateboard.Some memories of the good ole days. Used to be on the Pepsi skateboard team back in the 70s on the East Coast. We would put on shows at verious locations in New England and abouts..We went to New York a few times for a few parades including the Macys day parade where we skated with Tony Alva during his hayday. Steve Ellis AKA Woody Woodflow and later known as Cholo (of Hawaii) was also on the team..Some of the great parks we skated in this erra were Cherryhill in NJ, Shooting Star in Mass, Vernon in CT, Centrifical Force in RI and of coarse Yawgoo Valley Ski resort of RI… (our roots) All Things Skateboard (via Kanardo)

Lords of Dogtown is a cult skateboard movie directed by Catherine Hardwicke. It tells the story of skateboarding legends Stacy Peralta, Jay Adams and Tony Alva.

If you’re young, male and you live in the city, how do you prove yourself in the most materially comfortable country on earth? How do you show courage, daring, skill, strength? How do you prove you’re a man? If you’re a Masai Tribesman in Africa you kill a lion. If you’re an Aborigine boy, you go on walkabout, if you live in Dogtown, Los Angeles you ride a skateboard. Hilariously, this is how this vintage documentary from the golden age of skateboarding begins. At the time of its release in 1978, the sport of skateboarding was still a developing endeavor that a lot of people outside of California might have looked at with simple fascination. While the sport was growing, with skate shops and parks popping up all over the country, it was by no means as prevalent and integrated into world culture as it is today. Skateboard Kings, produced by Horace Ové for the British Television series The World About Us,features early pioneers Tony Alva, Ray Flores, Shogo Kubo, Stacy Peralta, Billy Yeron, Paul Constantineau, Jerry Valdez and Kent Senatore among many others. It makes them out to be this sort of...

How drought and new wheels made skateboarding a '70s L.A. craze.

This sampling of vintage skateboard ads from the 70s and 80s takes us back to days when decks were flat, wheels were big and shorts were sh...