Origins

The section on Skateboard is not the first. In Ashland, Oregon in 1937 a new section of hiway 99 at the west end of town had just been opened, leaving a 1 mile section only used by three farm families. Billings, Quackenbush, and Coyle. This left this unused portion of blacktop road as a perfect playground for the Barger boys. We built our own boards using discarded steel roller skates. We built them with a 2x4 base, and old fruit boxes with handle bars. We did not just use them for playing, but to gather greens, fruit, vegetables for our livelyhood. We also used them to get to our jobs of pulling weeds for a local farmer for five cent an hour. We did this for thgree years.