Re-issue of a Gordon & Smith Fibreflex skateboard, Henry Hester model
date: label: date made
content: 2015
name: label: referenced
content: Hester, Henry
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Re-issue of a Gordon & Smith Fibreflex, maple wood laminate skateboard, Henry Hester model has a yellow top with black grip tape on the surface. A gold Fibreflex sticker is in the center. The bottom is red with another gold Fibreflex sticker and Henry Hester's autograph in silver pen. The board has Tracker trucks and Red Rider urethane wheels. Larry Gordon and Floyd Smith co- founded G&S Surfboards in the late 1950s but by the late 1960s it had grown into one of the largest skateboard manufacturers selling 500 Fibreflex skateboards a day. In 1964 they developed an innovative new board manufacturing technique that combined “Bo-Tuff, a fiberglass-reinforced epoxy with a maple wood core to create the Fibreflex skateboard.” This first laminated board revolutionized the skateboard industry and G&S became one of the first companies to sponsor a professional skateboard team.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: skateboarding
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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: 2015.0263.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0263
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0263.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: skateboard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, maple (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: urethane (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 1/2 in x 8 in x 4 in; 69.85 cm x 20.32 cm x 10.16 cm