Help find this skateboard for Tovi
My good friend and neighbor Tovi sent me this email and photo this week:
While riding the train today, at the Jackson blue line stop I saw a kid with a skateboard that had the Blue Line Forest Park map on it and the Chicago flag stars. I thought it was really cool and that you might be interested in showcasing it on your site so I asked him if I could take a picture of it.
I've been searching online to see who makes it and to what pro-rider it belongs to without any luck. If you find out anything more let me know as I would really like to get one of these to keep for me as it combines two things I like (skateboarding and Chicago).
So people, if you know where to find this skateboard, please let us know. We gotta get it for my buddy Tovi.
That's rad. I want one too! Is Tovi sure it isn't a custom one-of-a-kind sorta thing?
Posted by: m | April 06, 2006 at 10:20 AM
That's AWESOME!
Posted by: T.Taylor | April 06, 2006 at 10:35 AM
That looks to me like someone took a larger system map (the kind posted in the stations) down and affixed it to the skateboard. It could also be a route map for the blue line from inside the train, but the large "West" on the side would seem to indicate that it's part of a larger map. It's post-1993 (because it uses color names for the lines), and probably closer to 94 or 95, as the "Congress"/"Douglas" reminders aren't next to the lines. My guess is that it came from the one of the large free-standing "transit information" signs (http://www.chicago-l.org/signage/platform/transit_info.jpg) seen in some stations (most of them have been covered with paper copies of the curent system map now).
Posted by: Ian | April 06, 2006 at 10:57 AM
Looks like it might be under Affiliate Skateboards which are based in Chicago. They have some skateboards that are CTA based: http://www.affiliateskateboards.com/boards.html
Posted by: cube | April 06, 2006 at 12:34 PM
It has to be more recent than that...
Kostner is listed as a stop. That's only been around for a few years now. =P
Posted by: Coollead | April 07, 2006 at 12:05 AM
The Kostner/Kildare station has actually been around since 1907. It was closed in 2002, and demolished in 2003, while the new station (actually at Kostner, instead of Kildare) was built in 2003. This rebuilding could be what you're thinking of.
The more I look at this, though, the more it looks like something someone designed on their own. The Kostner/Kildare station was always called Kildare until 2002, and only became Koster in 2003. Oak Park, a station on the Eisenhower Expressway, doesn't have the spur the map shows, and to my knowledge, never did. The map also doesn't include Accessible station symbols, which started appearing around 1995.
Posted by: Ian | April 07, 2006 at 08:44 AM
Is there any significance to the map being on the underside of the skateboard?
Also, will there now be a matching pink version for the Pink Line segment?
Posted by: jackonthebus | April 07, 2006 at 04:39 PM
Designs are always on the bottom of skateboards. The tops (should) always have some sort of no-slip surface.
Posted by: Ian | April 07, 2006 at 09:32 PM
I would think he had it custom made at a website or something. Like here. http://www.boardpusher.com/BP/
Posted by: Rebekah | April 15, 2006 at 04:03 AM
That board is a Modest board and is printed by affiate skate shop in chicago. Modest skate shop should also carry it.
Posted by: MZ | July 25, 2007 at 10:42 AM
it is a modest deck you can fined tham at modest skate shop
Posted by: warrren lo | May 22, 2008 at 03:11 PM