Encinitas resident Colleen Boyd Turner will be inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame on Nov. 12 at the Vans Headquarters in Costa Mesa. A pioneer of skateboarding in the 1960s, Turner is ...

Deathracer413 is a group of vertical skateboarders, mostly in their late 50s and 60s, who believe the sport is their key to longevity. It keeps them physically fit, connected to community and the ...

Iain Borden does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

In all the years the city of Kelso has hashed over plans to build a skateboard park, no detail seems to have been left out of the discussion. Except this one. Forty-two years ago, Kelso had a ...

Skateboarding may have started in California, but Arizona was home to the country's first skatepark. This is the story of Dry ...

Stand at the top of the Loring Street hill in Pacific Beach — one of the steepest in San Diego — and let yourself be transported back to the early 1960s, when children and teenagers flew down the ...

LOS ANGELES-- The shoes James Van Doren and his brother cooked up in their family rubber factory turned out to be the perfect fit for the nascent skateboarding culture that was sweeping Southern ...

In 1978, professional skateboarder Jack Smith squeezed stomach-first into the domed Vetter streamline skatecar designed by Cal Poly’s mechanical engineering students to race in the World Speed ...

This 1975 Santa Cruz, pultruded fiberglass skateboard was first purchased in San Francisco by 12-year-old Hamid Taha, the son of Egyptian diplomat Mohamed Abdel Kalek. He purchased it for $100 at the ...

Sean Cliver is largely unknown to anyone who doesn’t ride a skateboard, but for two decades the Los Angeles writer and artist has played a big role shaping culture’s naughty side. He got his start ...