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  Back then the scooters and roller skates had metal wheels. 1950
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  1966 Brothers Paul and James Van Doren, along with Gordon Leen and Serge D'Elia opened the first Vans store under the name The Van Doren Rubber Company.
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  1970's that a pair of wheel innovations would arrive that would help turn skateboarding
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  1973 The skateboard truck was invented
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  1973 Santa Cruz was set up by Rich Novak, Doug Haut, and Jay Shuirman, and the official title of “NHS, Inc
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  1975 Road rider wheels were invented.
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  Then in 1978 Alan Gelfand (nicknamed “Ollie”) invented a maneuver that gave skateboarding another revolutionary jump.
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  Street skating took over, and we introduced the first street skateboard back in 1979, and it was called the Street Skate of course.
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  mid-80-'s, and boards got wide again, up to 9 inches wide
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  Then in 1995 ESPN holds the first ever X-Games.
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  skate park events
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  Skating pictures and people that kids look up to
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  Huge game up skate by pro skaters
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  Skaters try there hardest to make the first trick of the day the best
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  Another magazine company that every skater knows about
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  A company that helps kids gather the equipment to skate when they want
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  People from the zero skate team come and skate with the little kids that are trying to learn how to skate
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  People in new York go skate the streets once a year for rob Derdeck since he built a skate park
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  Its a skate park that is always filed and when you want to skate with a lot of supper good people you go here
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  Its an event at skate parks here and there when only skateboarders are aloud