The price of skateboarding
I never cease to be amazed by the prices old skateboards sell for these days. A 1982 original Tony Hawk holds the eBay record of $6000, but I stumbled across the price of $250 for a tatty 1989 Jason Jessee (like I had back in the day). This was a decidely average ramp deck, mass produced and far from special. Now if I just had a time machine to go back and stock up...
posted by lukeski at 3:23 pm
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My mother gave me a skateboard when I was of some young age - between 2 and 20, can't remember exactly - clearly hoping that the momentum as I rolled down the road would make the gay gene tumble out. Well, it didn't work and I never picked up much speed as I nudged myself around the living-room table on it. Obviously I never ventured out onto the street with it where there were terrifying working class heterosexual youths doing all sorts on theirs - I remember clearly asking one horrible hooligan neighbour if he wanted to be a skateboarder when he grew up and he said yes! - as the shame would have been immense. But I wonder if my mother can dig it out of a cupboard for me somehow and flog it on ebay for a squillion quid...
It was red all over - even the wheels - and plastic, by the way. Is that a USP?
It truly fascinates me that our generation (25-40) are now coming into money and using it (on the whole) to revisit their youth - search eBay for just about anyhting you remember from your childhood, and it's bound to be for sale. Whizzer and Chips annuals, Action Man toys, etc... Maybe we are the first Peter Pan generation.
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