A Story About A Machine skatezine
date: label: date made
content: 2017
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Limited edition 99/120, "A Story About A Machine" skatezine written by the donor Steve Smith. It is a small white booklet with a black and white image of the author sitting on a skateboard. The text is typewritten and there are black and white photographs throughout. The skatezine discusses the history of the skateboarding fanzines, especially the creation of Skate Fate by Garry Scott Davis and the search for the typewriter used to write Skate Fate. Skatezines are fan magazines dedicated to the world of skateboarding and began popping up in the 1980s as Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi were reintroducing kids to skateboarding through vert skating and video games featuring skateboarding.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: skateboarding
label: web subject
content: Magazines
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: 2017.3155.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2017.3155
label: catalog number
content: 2017.3155.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: skatezine, skateboarding
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 4 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 10.795 cm