(September 6, 1961 – April 21, 2025) This was just forwarded to me. Another of our SkaterCross brethren has passed. Mauro Monteiro handmade our decks in the mid 1970’s which were sold at Kennedy Surfshop in Tarzana, CA. He, and his brother Marcus, was part of a large skateboard group that glued the San Fernando
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Part 1 Lou Peralta’s SkaterCross was one of the first skateparks to pioneer vertical skateboarding. There were a few others but his was one of the first three in Southern California. It attracted talent from all over the state in the same manner Carlsbad had done just prior to that.In this photo just after grand
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Find Ed on Social Media One of the top freestylers of the 1970s, Ed Nadalin was born in Ridgecrest, California in the Mojave Desert in 1955. He began skating in 1968 in Cupertino when he saw the Hobie team on TV. His first board was a Hobie Super Surfer with clay wheels. By 1975, Ed
