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Santa Cruz Skateboarding History
THE HISTORY OF SANTA CRUZ SKATEBOARDING

Christian smith
Freshman Technology
Wednesday January 24th

You are able to find Santa Cruz skateboards just about anywhere in California. The Santa Cruz skateboard company doesn't just sell skateboards but a large variety of items. Now Santa Cruz sells all kinds of clothing, stickers, and random collectibles. This company distributes their products all over the world. “Santa Cruz’s simple dot logo is probably the most prominent iconic image to ever come out of the Santa Cruz county and these days it's bigger than skateboards and Santa Cruz itself”.(Baine, 2010) …show more content…
This was a major event because they had not had enough sells or money to buy some of the necessary materials for their boards because they had been building with raw fiberglass. This had been a huge breakthrough because now they had started to have tons more sells and being able to afford new materials and supplies. Later in that year they had gotten a call from a friend Jimmy Hoffman and he had ordered 500 skateboards, and so Santa Cruz had built 500 skateboards and they got sold immediately. After that order they had gotten tons of more orders for 500 skateboards do to the new material. “I always knew how to sell and buy stuff.”(Pittman, …show more content…
Santa Cruz now is a multimillion dollar company with sellers all across the world. Santa Cruz Skateboards is currently earning $10-$25 million a year. Santa Cruz has recently started to have fundraisers for the kids and teens who are unable to afford boards and they teach the kids how to build and sell boards. “Most of the other projects, the science I’ve been able to, it’s more explicitly taught. This project, I think because they’re just so into it, I can’t really stop them for working long enough to really teach them about the science.”(York,
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