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A SECRET HISTORY OF THE OLLIE
Craig B. Snyder
Vol. 1: The 1970s
912 pages, illustrated in full color
Over 1200 images and photographs
BLACK SALT PRESS
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Awards & Recognition
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BEST IN SPORTS
Independent Press Award
New York, 2017
“Top 10 Photobooks”
MOTHER JONES Magazine
San Francisco, 2016
BEST IN CATEGORY: General Trade Illustrated
58th Annual New England Book Show
Boston Symphony Hall
Boston, 2015
GOLD MEDAL
Foreword Reviews
INDIEFAB Book of the Year
American Library Association (ALA) annual conference
Orlando, 2016
GOLD MEDAL
20th Annual 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards
Book Expo America
Chicago, 2016
GOLD MEDAL
FAPA President’s Book Awards
Orlando, 2015
BEST IN SPORTS
NYC Big Book Award
New York, 2017
EVERY CULTURE HAS A CREATION MYTH
This is the story of the Ollie and the skaters who used it to launch a revolution.
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A Secret History of the Ollie
is a history of skateboarding and skate culture by author, photographer, and skater Craig B. Snyder, illustrated in full color with over 1200 images and photographs, many of which have never been seen before. This unique, award-winning book also explores the birth of the modern skating and the evolution of the first aerials in skating and surfing. Contributing photographers include Jim Goodrich, Lance Smith, Bruce Walker, James Cassimus, Al Porterfield, Hunter Joslin, and many others.
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"Everyone thinks they know the skateboarding's history but what they really know is a series of half-facts compounded by hype and amnesia.
This book will rewrite skateboarding history as we know it."
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Betsy Gordon, curator of
Ramp It Up
, Smithsonian Institution
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[A Secret History of the Ollie] sheds a very bright light on a revolutionary time in skateboarding.
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THRASHER
"Nothing like this has ever been published before."
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Michael Brooke,
CONCRETE WAVE
"Craig Snyder's work is much more than a secret history of the Ollie. It is a first-rate account of skateboarding based largely on Snyder's extensive research in boarding magazines and his myriad interviews with groundbreaking skaters, the audiences who studied them, and the photographers who immortalized them. 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
"Your [book] is a wonderful history textbook on 70's skateboarding unequaled and will stand the test of time."
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Larry Balma, publisher of
Transworld Skateboarding
(1983-1996) and
co-founder of Tracker Trucks
"A Secret History of the Ollie
is a massive book packed full of details, histories, anecdotes, photographs and miscellanea about 1970s skateboarding—not just California, but also Florida, other US states and the international scene. Snyder obsessively details exactly who did what, when, and where. It is amazing detective work, and at over 900 full-colour pages, a great value."
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Iain Borden, author of
Skateboarding, Space and the City
"If you think you need 900! pages of 1970s-to-early 80s skate history that shows that a raging world existed outside of
Southern California, then make some room for this thang."
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Bill Daniel, Texas filmmaker, artist, photographer, and skater