HoodWood Skates Hellcat skateboard sticker
date: label: date made
content: 2021
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Skateboard sticker is white with a red and black hellcat design in the center. The hellcat was created by Raith Grimes of HoodWood Skates. Marty Grimes was the first Black professional skateboarder along with his brother Clyde. In 1976, after the Del Mar Nationals, Jay Adams got Marty onto the EZ Ryder team that Jay’s stepfather had started after Jay left the Zephyr team. EZ Ryder then turned into Z Flex and Grimes was the first African American to have a pro model deck.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: skateboarding
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: African American
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2022.0064.04.3
label: accession number
content: 2022.0065
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0064.04.3
objectType: label: Object Name
content: skateboard sticker
label: Object Name
content: sticker, skateboarding
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 5.715 cm