The first wave of skateboarding—when decks were wood ... Yet the sport enjoyed a major resurgence in the 1970s, thanks in part to new technology. The blue Bahne evokes an era when public ...

Skateboarding began in the United States around the 1940s, but the sport really began to take off in the 1970s when pioneering skaters began to ply their trades at the first skate parks.

One that you can even take outside? It'll never catch on! In true 1978 style, Blue Peter jumped on the skateboarding stunt craze by interviewing Stacy Peralta, one of the original Z-Boys ...