Sounds cool, right? It's basically true, because that's when I started skating. In 1974. Skateboarding, surfing, bicycles, art, making stuff... all go back to playing with my dad's skateboard in our garage when I was a little kid. Roller skate trucks, clay wheels, loose ball bearings...getting pitched by the smallest pebble, or sliding out trying to learn how to carve... When dad came home with a new board that had these new "Urethane" wheels, it was over. Vaquero Skate Co. was established in 2013 after 39 years of skating, surfing, crashing on bicycles, doing art and making stuff. Now it's been over 50 years, and we're setting up for the next 50!