![]() But safety “experts” reportedly deemed the sport to be unsafe and urged stores to stop selling them, causing a crash in the sport’s popularity. ![]() ![]() As counterculture took hold in the 60s, Brittain said skating exploded in popularity, producing the first skateboarding magazine in 1964, Quarterly Skateboarder. “People would wait two months for it to come out.”ĭuring the bookstore signing, Brittain also touched on the origins of skating in 1947 in La Jolla. “(The Skateboard Mag) was social media before social media,” Brittain said. Grant BrittainĪfter spending 20 years filling the glossy pages of the popular skateboarding magazine classic skateboarding images, Brittain left to start The Skateboard Mag, where he worked for 13 years. ![]()
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