Baby Boomers Vintage Skateboarding, Vintage Rolerskating and Vintage Surfing


Post by Sharon 

The 1950s, 1960s and 1970s personified skateboarding, rollerskating and surfing culture. I admit to being a very avid skateboarder and freestyle rollerskating, spending a few hours a day on both! I wanted to be a surfer, but I was on the quiet Chesapeake, so I daydreamed of growing up, moving to LA and surfing like Gidget. There was a whole music, lifestyle, and fun culture built around these things - from Beach Boys and Dick Dale surfing attitude to roller disco skating and half-pipe-loving skateboarders. 
Let's relive some of the fun and find ways to recapture it, even if we aren't willing to get on a board in our middle years -

VEHICLES




Woodies
VW bus
motorcycles
Ford Bronco
VW Thing
International Harvester Scout




WAYS TO BRING YOUR LOVES BACK INTO YOUR WORLD 

surfboard table
hang up rollerskates
skateboard shelves
enlarged pictures from childhood
signed memorabilia
posters
vans shoes
beach items
skateland vintage signs

























MOVIES

Gidget (surfers)
Beach Blanket Bingo (surfers)
Teen Beach Movie (surfers) 
Blue Crush (surfers) 
Endless Summer (surfers) 
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (skateboarders)
Lords of Dogtown (skateboarders) 
Grind (skateboarders)
Skateboard (skateboarders) 
This Ain't California (skateboarders)
Roller Boogie (rollerskating)
Skatetown USA (rollerskating)
Xanadu (rollerskating)
Rollertown (rollerskating)
Skateland (rollerskating)

MUSIC



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