When was the first skateboard created?

Answer 1

According to skateboard.about.com, Skateboarding was invented in the 1950s so the skateboard would have been invented at that time.

in 1920's when little kids used to make soap box cars but they kept falling apart so they rode around on the boards that were left.

Well, skateboards were invented in the 1960's.Modern skateboards didn't come around until the 1980's. It also depends on the type of skateboard since there are numerous types for different uses and kinds of tricks.

Answer 2

There is not a simple answer to this question. Many people throughout the 20th century made skateboards by taking a piece of wood and mounting roller skate wheels to it, and often they would attach a wooden fruit box to the front, essentially making an early scooter. At some point, arguably in the 1950's, someone left off the handle and rode the board standing up and balancing. This might have happened earlier, but there is evidence that it had definitely happened in the 1950's.

What is known is that there was a 1962 patent granted for a "child's coaster" which is an early version of a skateboard. Makaha and other brands were making production skateboards for sale in the early sixties. Makaha was making boards in 1963 and are believed to be the first skateboarding company.

Larry Stevenson was one of the leaders at Makaha at the time, and was also later the inventor of the kicktail, an upturned section of the skateboard at the back of the board, which made possible many of the trick innovations that have kept skateboarding progressing over the years.

By the mid-to-late 1960's, there were numerous skateboarding companies making complete boards using metal and then "composite" or "clay" wheels. The next huge innovation in skateboarding came in 1973 with the invention of the urethane wheel, which could be identified as the single most important invention in the history of the skateboard.

Answer 3

Skateboarding was probably born sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s when surfers in California, wanted something to surf when the waves were flat. No one knows who made the first board, rather, it seems that several people came up with similar ideas at around the same time.

Answer 4

California surfer's made the first skateboards in the 1950's.

The first kicktail was patented around 1967, but the skateboarding industry didn't pick up until the 1970's.

Answer 5

Skateboarding came around in the early 1970's so i imagine that they came around about a year before.

Answer 6

1960's and it used to be called sidewalk Surfing

Answer 7

1961