Period footage
Photos or video from when the board was current. Bad video is the best video: camcorder, disposable camera, a scan of a print. Tell us the year and who shot it, or stay anonymous.
A series about single-plank machines
Every board
is a timestamp.
Boards for snow, water, concrete or any surface. Somebody stood on it, somebody stored it, and the graphics, the trucks and the base all give away the year. Film yours. We date it.
Snowsnowboardother‑snow
Watersurfboardslalom waterskitrick waterskiwakeboardskimboardfoilpaddleboardwindsurfkitesurfother‑water
Concreteskateboard
Anything elseother‑any
The timeline
Every year gets a slot. Four are filled. The gaps are the point — somebody has the board that goes in 1983, and it is probably in their parents' basement.
Nothing here yet. Be the first.
- 1974 Unclaimed — got a board from 1974?
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1975
UPM CAL-240 polypropylene deck, Universal Grabber wheels · narrated - 1976 Unclaimed — got a board from 1976?
- 1977 Unclaimed — got a board from 1977?
- 1978 Unclaimed — got a board from 1978?
- 1979 Unclaimed — got a board from 1979?
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1980
Variflex El Gato Eddie Elguera's model - 1981 Unclaimed — got a board from 1981?
- 1982 Unclaimed — got a board from 1982?
- 1983 Unclaimed — got a board from 1983?
- 1984 Unclaimed — got a board from 1984?
- 1985 Unclaimed — got a board from 1985?
- 1986 Unclaimed — got a board from 1986?
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1987
Burton Comp II sintered base, picked up in Austria -
1988
Burton Air Formica base, laminated for sand - 1989 Unclaimed — got a board from 1989?
- 1990 Unclaimed — got a board from 1990?
Rode it
A board on a wall is an artifact. A board under someone's feet is a record. If you have footage of one of these being ridden — then or now — it belongs here.
Someone young, riding it today
This is the one we want most. Put a rider who wasn't born yet on gear from before they were — no modern edges, no camber they recognize, bindings that make no sense — and film what happens. Kindness optional.
Rode it
Make the cut
One take, one phone, under a minute. You film it. We edit it, score it, and date it.
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Stand it up and shoot vertical.
Lean the board against a wall in decent light and hold the phone upright. Get the whole board in frame, then move in on the details — graphics, base, bindings, trucks, wheels.
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Ask the question out loud.
Start with "What do we have here?" It gives the edit a clean opening and it gives you somewhere to begin.
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Say what it is and what's unique.
Brand, model, anything stamped on it. Then the one thing that makes it interesting — an odd base material, a serial number, where you got it.
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Don't worry about the year.
If you know it, say it. If you don't, that's better. Dating it is our job.
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Leave the mistakes in.
Pauses, false starts, thinking out loud — all of it gets cut out. Talk the way you'd talk to a friend in a garage.
Rough phone audio is fine. Every episode gets its levels fixed, its pauses tightened and its terms explained on screen.