Skate deck used by Rodney Mullen, 1980s
date: label: date made
content: 1970s
name: label: used
content: Mullen, Rodney
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Early Powell Peralta, Rodney Mullen pro model skate deck used by Rodney Mullen in the early 1980s. It is pink and black and depicts a chessboard with chess pieces scattered about. There are red and black "Bones Brigade" stickers covering most of the graphic. The chessboard was used to signify Mullen’s brilliance in life and with a skateboard. The deck is well worn with a white plastic bumper on the tail end and a black plastic bumper on the front end which are both ground down and scraped. According to Mullen, this deck represents a transition in his career from freestyle to street. Rodney Mullen, considered the Godfather of Street Skating, invented many of the tricks that street skaters use today. Skateboarding’s inclusion in the Olympics is, in part, due to Mullen’s creativity and inventiveness in skate. Mullen’s sponsorship by Powell Peralta and his presence in the original Bones Brigade makes him one of a dozen members of the skate community to skate, make videos and further the popularity of the sport during the 1980s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: skateboarding
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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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: 2021.0096.01
label: accession number
content: 2021.0096
label: catalog number
content: 2021.0096.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: skatedeck
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: grip tape (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 in x 7 in x 1 1/2 in; 68.58 cm x 17.78 cm x 3.81 cm