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September 29, 2015 08:31 am PDT
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The newspapers couldn't figure out skateboards
Ratter offers a brief history of skateboards made of reactions to their ever-increasing popularity from contemporary newspapers.
Here's the most stupid/brilliant, from The Evening Independent in Masillon, Ohio, in 1975.
"About a decade ago, someone nailed roller skates to a plank, called it a skateboard and made a fortune from the Hula Hoop-rivaling craze that resulted."
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