The BFF skateboard button
date: label: date made
content: 2018
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: "The BFF" skateboard button is round and light blue with black printing. Hawk began competing at age 12 and turned pro at 14. He is an innovative vert skater competing in 103 competitions before he was 25 and was the first to land a 900 in competition. In 1999, Hawk created the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video game franchise which became one of the most popular video games in history. Hawk retired in 1999 but continues to skate in exhibitions and demos and the Tony Hawk Foundation has funded over $5 million to over 550 skatepark projects throughout the world.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: skateboarding
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: 2019.0311.03.1
label: accession number
content: 2019.0311
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0311.03.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button, skateboarding
label: Object Name
content: skateboarding button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in; 2.54 cm