Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Fibreflex skateboarding sticker is a gold colored triangular shape with red and white printing and the G&S logo at the bottom. Larry Gordon and Floyd Smith co- founded G&S Surfboards in the late 1950s but by the late 1960s it had grown into one of the largest skateboard manufacturers selling 500 Fibreflex skateboards a day. In 1964 they developed an innovative new board manufacturing technique that combined “Bo-Tuff, a fiberglass-reinforced epoxy with a maple wood core to create the Fibreflex skateboard.” This first laminated board revolutionized the skateboard industry and G&S became one of the first companies to sponsor a professional skateboard team. Skateboard stickers have always played an important role in skateboard advertising especially in the late 1980s and early 90s when small skate companies were emerging. Skate companies used this inexpensive and visually appealing media to advertise their companies, board models, skate contests, and skate teams. The stickers were often offered free through magazine offers and at skate shops where the most sought after were kept behind the counter.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 2015
- ID Number
- 2015.0263.03
- accession number
- 2015.0263
- catalog number
- 2015.0263.03
- Object Name
- sticker, skateboarding
- skateboarding sticker
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 11.43 cm x 8.89 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- Advertising
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Sports
- name of sport
- skateboarding
- Record ID
- nmah_1803968
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-5a55-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
