A Secret History of the Ollie, Volume 1: The 1970s
Book Details
Author(s)Craig B. Snyder
PublisherBlack Salt Press
ISBN / ASIN1930287003
ISBN-139781930287006
Sales Rank959,534
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
AWARD WINNING BOOK
** GOLD MEDAL: IP Awards, Chicago, 2016
** BEST IN CATEGORY: General Trade, Illustrated: 58th Annual New England Book Show 2015
** GOLD MEDAL: FAPA President's Book Awards 2015
** BEST OF 2015: Top 10 Photobooks, Mother Jones Magazine
** FINALIST: Foreword Reviews' 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year (June 2016)
Full color, 912 pages. List price: $59.95
Over 1200 images and photographs help illustrate the birth of modern skateboarding, the emergence of skate culture, and the development of the first aerials in skating and surfing.
From "OllieBook" site: "Every culture has a creation myth and skateboarding is no different. The Ollie forged a new identity for skateboarding after its invention in the 1970s, and it lies at the root of nearly every significant move in street skating today. This groundbreaking no-handed aerial has also affected the evolution of surfing and snowboarding, and has left a permanent impression upon popular culture and language. This is the story of the Ollie and the skaters who used it to start a revolution."
REVIEWS & PRAISE
"It is beyond anything that has ever been published before."
- Michael Brooke, publisher of Concrete Wave Magazine
"This will be the reference point for all other '70s-era skate histories going forward."
- Eastern Surf Magazine
"This book will rewrite skateboarding history as we know it."
- Betsy Gordon, Smithsonian Institution
"It is amazing detective work."
- Iain Borden, author of "Skateboarding, Space and the City"
"Craig Snyder's work is much more than a secret history of the Ollie. It is a first-rate account of skateboarding. Set against the backdrop of the sun-drenched coastal towns of Southern California and South Florida of the 1970s, this book transports readers to the era in which the acrobatics of today's X Games were born."
-- H. Michael Gelfand, James Madison University
** GOLD MEDAL: IP Awards, Chicago, 2016
** BEST IN CATEGORY: General Trade, Illustrated: 58th Annual New England Book Show 2015
** GOLD MEDAL: FAPA President's Book Awards 2015
** BEST OF 2015: Top 10 Photobooks, Mother Jones Magazine
** FINALIST: Foreword Reviews' 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year (June 2016)
Full color, 912 pages. List price: $59.95
Over 1200 images and photographs help illustrate the birth of modern skateboarding, the emergence of skate culture, and the development of the first aerials in skating and surfing.
From "OllieBook" site: "Every culture has a creation myth and skateboarding is no different. The Ollie forged a new identity for skateboarding after its invention in the 1970s, and it lies at the root of nearly every significant move in street skating today. This groundbreaking no-handed aerial has also affected the evolution of surfing and snowboarding, and has left a permanent impression upon popular culture and language. This is the story of the Ollie and the skaters who used it to start a revolution."
REVIEWS & PRAISE
"It is beyond anything that has ever been published before."
- Michael Brooke, publisher of Concrete Wave Magazine
"This will be the reference point for all other '70s-era skate histories going forward."
- Eastern Surf Magazine
"This book will rewrite skateboarding history as we know it."
- Betsy Gordon, Smithsonian Institution
"It is amazing detective work."
- Iain Borden, author of "Skateboarding, Space and the City"
"Craig Snyder's work is much more than a secret history of the Ollie. It is a first-rate account of skateboarding. Set against the backdrop of the sun-drenched coastal towns of Southern California and South Florida of the 1970s, this book transports readers to the era in which the acrobatics of today's X Games were born."
-- H. Michael Gelfand, James Madison University
