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A long time ago, actually more like ninety years, skateboarding was given the light of day when school age kids decided to tear apart their roller skates and hammer them onto a wooden two-by-four plank. Back then, around the early 1900’s, these scooter-type apparatuses had handles for control. But it wasn’t until the 1950’s that the handles were taken off ad modifications were made to the trucks (devices that hold the wheels) to make m