Why did professional skateboarding arise in southern California in the 1970s? Was it a coincidence, or was it a perfect storm of multiple factors? It's fairly well-known that a drought in southern ...

Will first skated this hill in the early 1970s, just as downhill skateboarding ascended in popularity. He said he looks ...

Even though the photo is in black and white, the image of a Fayetteville girl riding her skateboard on a road dampened by falling rain is everything but old-fashioned. The 1970s vibrates from it.

Like a lot of kids in the late 1970s and 1980s (and today), I rolled a lot of miles under the urethane wheels of my trusty skateboard. I kept on riding into my college years, as it was a fast ...

In local skateboard circles, the spot is known as Suicide Hill. It stands along a steep section of Winding Oak Drive in Fair Oaks, an otherwise serene neighborhood lined with single-family ...

Will first skated this hill in the early 1970s, just as downhill skateboarding ascended in popularity. He said he looks forward to seeing it transform into a skateboarding speedway, with up to 100 ...