1940-1960 Skateboards
Nobody really knows who invented the skateboard. Skateboarding originated in the 1930's and 1940's when kids attached roller skates to a wooden plank, but these weren't real skateboards. It wasn't until 1958 that a variation of the skateboard as we know it was made. It was built in a California surf shop. It was something for surfers to do when the ocean was flat. The shop owner, Bill Richards, made a deal with the Chicago Roller Skate Company to produce sets of skate wheels. Then they attached them to square wooden boards. Soon, many kids were rolling down hills and calling it "sidewalk surfing."