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Posts Tagged: Sports

  • November 27, 2013

    The Birth of Skateboarding

    BY Lucas Habte

    Legend has it that skateboarding was born sometime in the mid 1940s when some inventive Californian teenagers tried to figure out a way to surf when the waves weren’t big enough.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • October 10, 2013

    Los Angeles, World Capital of Teen Fandom

    BY Lucas Habte

    Teenage is screening today at ArcLight Doc Fest in Los Angeles, so here’s a chronological compilation of LA teens doing what they do best — fawning over entertainers of all kinds in the entertainment capital of the world (the above photo is a Bee Gees concert in 1979!).

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • February 6, 2013

    Footballers, 1938

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Portrait of the footballer as a young man. 

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • September 13, 2012

    Baby Bobby

    BY Teenage Editor

    Bobby Fischer was just 13-years-old when he defeated American chess master Donald Byrne in 1956, marking the beginning of an extraordinary but difficult chess career.  

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • August 29, 2012

    Uganda Sk8

    BY Teenage Editor

    Ten years ago, most Ugandan teens had never heard of skateboarding.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • May 17, 2012

    80s Ladies

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Young ladies of the 1980s loved RUSH, Pac Man, Mickey Mouse, sk8boarding and short shorts.

    FROM:Flickr Faves

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  • March 2, 2012

    Carlisle Indians

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    ‘Greatest Athlete of the Twentieth Century ‘ Jim Thorpe got his start on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School team.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • February 24, 2012

    Mascot Mania

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Theatrical, spirited, and oversized—what would high school sports be without their Eagles, Bobcats, or Black Knights?

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • January 11, 2012

    At Play

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    For two generations family owned Scurlock Studio photographed Washington DC’s African American community.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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