9/11/2023 0 Comments Skateboard rails 1992SMA Rocco Division was a short-lived brand that very quickly transformed itself into World Industries, the manufacturer that dominated the new street-oriented skateboard industry of the 1990s. The board is an early street model, released at a time when pool and ramp skating were still dominant. Lee will donate his 1989 SMA Rocco Division skateboard deck. He then went on to start Stereo Skateboards in San Francisco with Lee in 1992. After moving to the West Coast from New Jersey in 1990, Pastras turned pro with World Industries, and landed a part in the classic “Rubbish Heap” video. With his roots beginning with the legendary SHUT Skates out of the New Jersey/New York area, Pastras started traveling and competing in the mid-80s. Pastras is a skateboarding legend and an established artist and television host. This year the two longtime friends celebrate the company’s 30-year anniversary. Despite retiring from skateboarding in 1995, Lee continues co-managing Stereo Skateboards with co-founder and former professional skateboarder Chris “Dune” Pastras. Having established a successful career as a professional skateboarder, and one of the most prominent early pioneers of street skating during the sport’s pivotal late 1980s and early ’90s period, Lee would go on to pursue acting in 1994, which led to work in film, television, and voiceover. Jason Lee is a film photographer, actor and director. These acquisitions will become part of the sports history collections in the Division of Culture and Community Life at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Innoskate Sioux Falls festivalgoers will be witness to the donation of two skateboard decks, an issue of TransWorld SKATEboarding and a DVD and promotional poster of A Visual Sound to the Smithsonian July 9. Innoskate brings skateboarding and local communities together in a dynamic exploration of invention, creativity, fun and freedom of expression. The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, USA Skateboarding and Levitt at the Falls are collaborating this summer to create a one-of-a-kind Innoskate festival for the Oglala Lakota Nation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, July 5, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, July 7–9. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
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