29/04/2017
The first skateboards started with wooden boxes, or boards,
with roller skate wheels attached to the bottom. Crate
scooters preceded skateboards having a wooden crate
attached to the nose (front of the board), which formed
rudimentary handlebars. The boxes turned into
planks, similar to the skateboard decks of today. An
American WAC , Betty Magnuson, reported seeing French
children in the Montmartre section of Paris riding on boards
with roller skate wheels attached to them in late 1944.
Skateboarding, as we know it, was probably born sometime
in the late 1940s, or early 1950s, when surfers in California
wanted something to do when the waves were flat. This
was called "sidewalk surfing" - a new wave of surfing on the
sidewalk as the sport of surfing became highly popular. No
one knows who made the first board; it seems that several
people came up with similar ideas at around the same time.
The first manufactured skateboards were ordered by a Los
Angeles, California surf shop, meant to be used by surfers
in their downtime. The shop owner, Bill Richard, made a
deal with the Chicago Roller Skate Company to produce
sets of skate wheels, which they attached to square
wooden boards. Accordingly, skateboarding was originally
denoted "sidewalk surfing" and early skaters emulated
surfing style and maneuvers, and performed barefoot......and these was the first skate board .......here's the pic!!!!!!!