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@dooks
this stuff is making me really nostalgic. by the time i got into skating it was the mid-late 80s but all the mags and books i had were from boot sales and circa the early 70s so i always fetishised stuff from this era.
my first "proper" (i.e. not a plastic "variflex" from the local sports shop) board had super squishy kryptonic 70mms on a beat up 80s new deal deck. weighed a ton but it was so smooth, fast and quiet. ahhhhh.
haha! just found a picture of my first ever board:
god what a piece of shit. i fucking LOVED that thing.