Skateboarding, New York, 1960s

10 comments to Skateboarding, New York, 1960s

• Dave Turbo

  February 20, 2012 at 11:45 am · Reply

  Who needs cool trainers? I love the fact that so many of these people are in smart shoes.

  I can’t skateboard of course but this is great.

• sisn

  February 24, 2012 at 9:30 am · Reply

  These photos are fantastic!

  But, it always strikes me to see how thinner, or should I say normal weight, people were in the past in the USA.

  I’m not from USA and when I look at videos and photos from today and from the past, the difference is evident even by casual observing.

  So I guess that the lifestyle – in general – has changed for the worse.

  • km

    April 22, 2012 at 11:10 pm · Reply

    I don’t think this should be taken as a snapshot of weight demographics in the 1960s. If you’re shooting an article to be published in a well-known, well-circulated magazine the photographer is likely going to only focus on subjects that are typically representative of the days’ standards of beauty. (Also typical of today’s beauty standards as well) That’s also why there are fewer images of people of color in this set as well.

• Stephan

  February 24, 2012 at 1:20 pm · Reply

  Picture #27 is actually outside of a dorm (where I lived for 2 years) at Wesleyan University. Cool!

• SirFatty

  February 24, 2012 at 5:04 pm · Reply

  @Dave Turbo: Or the hotty in the second to last picture. She’s barefoot.

• Austin

  February 24, 2012 at 9:31 pm · Reply

  Time traveler from 2012 in the 7th from the last picture.

• T313

  February 25, 2012 at 4:28 pm · Reply

  Ah, the good ol’ days – when 10 yr olds played in traffic.

• Armando P.

  March 11, 2012 at 5:07 pm · Reply

  I’m digging the cars parked alongside the NYC streets: International Harvester TravelAll, ’56 Ford Pickup, ’58 Chevy Bel-Air, etc.
  Good ol’ days indeed! That guy in the Loyola jacket with the younger kid riding on his shoulders would probably be cited for child endangerment today.

• kevin

  May 3, 2012 at 12:07 am · Reply

  Its amazing we survived. No helmets, knee or elbow pads, back when we rode in cars with no seat belts and rode bikes in traffic with no helmet. You would wake up early on a Saturday morning and be gone from home till well after dark and your parents never worried about you for one moment. Yes indeed, the good old days.

• kevin

  May 3, 2012 at 12:11 am · Reply

  @Austin
  I agree, the sunglasses that guy is wearing in that pic don’t look like anything I have ever seen in the 60’s, more like from the last 10-15 years.