Tracker Trucks logo sticker
date: label: date made
content: 2015
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Tracker truck logo sticker is small and circular with a white ground and red, blue and black printing. According to the donor, Larry Balma, "The Tracker Fultrack was 4-1/2" wide, extreme for the time, cast of heat treated aluminum, strong and stable. Tracker established the 4-hole mounting pattern, fixed kingpins, aircraft quality materials and hardware. Trackers are the introduction of the "Modern Skateboard Truck," an evolutionary step in skateboard design. The Tracker Fultrack was the first truck in history made specifically for skateboarding by skateboarders to incorporate high quality, performance and strength." Tracker Trucks was founded in 1974 by Dave Dominy, Larry Balma and Gary Dodd, friends from North San Diego County who began skating at La Costa, a newly built upscale neighborhood that would become the first free downhill skatepark.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Skateboard stickers have always played an important role in skateboard advertising especially in the late 1980s and early 90s when small skate companies were emerging. Skate companies used this inexpensive and visually appealing media to advertise their companies, board models, skate contests, and skate teams. The stickers were often offered free through magazine offers and at skate shops where the most sought after were kept behind the counter.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: skateboarding
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: 2015.0239.05
label: accession number
content: 2015.0239
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0239.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sticker, skateboarding
label: Object Name
content: skateboarding sticker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: adhesive (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in; 3.81 cm