Vintage Skateboards Pay Tribute To Our Sport
Vintage skateboards are starting to become wildly popular among not only older skate rats trying hoping to reminisce about “days gone by” but younger skaters as well. In fact owning a vintage skateboard is a great way to express yourself in the park or on the ramp. While it may not ride as well as a new board, it has that “something” you can’t quite explain.
When it first took off in the 1940s to the 1950s, skateboarding became the sport of choice for California surfers and beachgoers who wanted to have the water experience on land. Skateboards from that time basically looked like plain planks of wood on huge rubber wheels.
A few decades later, the sport started to lose its popularity, even though the skateboard design had evolved to include new wheels and axels, as well as more durable board decks.
Today, skateboards from the 1940s, 1970s and even 1990s are considered vintage skateboards. The word vintage in skateboarding refers to boards that are over 15 years old. And today, people love collecting vintage skateboards as much as they love collecting other vintage items. Although most of them cannot even come close to the durability and performance standards of modern day boards, they remain sentimental pieces to the collectors who absolutely love the sport.
A true collector of vintage skateboards will want to own pieces from every decade considered “vintage”. One would want to think that the older vintage pieces from the 1950s for example will cost that much more than vintage boards from the 1980s. However, most people are actually collecting boards from the 1980s, so those are usually priced higher.
Most vintage skateboards will cost anywhere from $100 to $200, depending on its condition, the year it was made and the brand. Some of the popular old school brands include names like Nash, Union Surfer, Roller Derby, Powell, Dog Town, Vision, Alva, Bad Company, Big Pimp, Brand-X and Boulder. Some of these names are much rarer than others, so you will have to look far and wide to find them. And people might want to sell them for more than they are worth, just because they are rare.
Owning at least one vintage board is something I feel helps connect us with the history of our sport and pays tribute to long past skaters who helped shape skateboarding into what it is today!
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