California Free Former Skate Deck
date: label: date made
content: 1970
label: date made
content: 1975
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: California Free Former Skate Deck known as the "banana board" is yellow plastic and shaped like a banana with a pointed nose and kick tail. Intervaled underside. Represents an attempt to explore better skate deck materials by replacing the basic wood deck with plastic. The addition of the kick tail in the back of the board enabled the skater to 'kick turn,' or push the skate deck's nose up in the air and turn quikly onthe back wheels. This move esential for taking a skateboard from the street to the pool and half pipe.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0133.04
label: accession number
content: 2019.0133
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0133.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: skate deck
label: Object Name
content: skatedeck
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 13/32 in x 5 19/32 in x 2 13/32 in; 59.436 cm x 14.224 cm x 6.096 cm