Astro Boy Skateboard Deck 1980s, Shop Display Piece From Violent Grind Shimokitazawa, Unridden Wood
Astro Boy Skateboard Deck 1980s, Shop Display Piece From Violent Grind Shimokitazawa, Unridden Wood
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A wall piece from the first scene
For the collector of Tokyo street culture before it had a name.
Best for: Street culture and skate history collections
Condition notes
Scratches and handling marks overall from display and storage. Unused as a skateboard.
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An unbranded skateboard deck printed with Astro Boy in flight, described as a display piece from the Violent Grind shop in Shimokitazawa, never sold and never ridden.
The Piece
The natural maple deck has a broad fish tail shape of the 1980s. On the underside a blue monochrome panel shows the boy robot flying upward with one arm raised beneath a ringed planet, printed like a frame from a comic. The top is bare wood with drilled truck holes.
It has passed through several shops and hands since, and carries scratches and marks all over from that life, though it has not been set up or skated.
Violent Grind, Shimokitazawa
KURO opened Violent Grind in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, in 1987, beneath a record shop called Edison, at a time when the Tokyo skate scene was more often associated with Harajuku.
Astro Boy, Mighty Atom in Japan, first appeared in 1951 as a side character in Osamu Tezuka's Ambassador Atom and was given his own series in April 1952 in Kobunsha's Shonen, where it ran until March 1968. Tezuka Productions describes the 1963 television version as the first commercial animation made by Tezuka's Mushi Production and the first Japanese television animation series, broadcast weekly in thirty minute episodes.
More Tezuka pieces wait on the anime and character shelf.
Details
- Type: Skateboard deck, unbranded
- Period: 1980s to 1990s
- History: Described as an in store display, not for sale at the time
- Use: Never ridden
- Material: Wood
- Character: Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka, 1952
- Shop: Violent Grind, Shimokitazawa, opened 1987
Sizes are measured by hand; please allow a small margin.
Condition
- Scratches and handling marks overall from display and storage.
- Unused as a skateboard.
- Every photograph is part of the description.
Condition grade B (good) on the Japanese scale; see Japanese condition ranks, explained.
Authenticity & Care
Maker, date and completeness are given as described and as the photographs show. Examined and photographed in Japan before dispatch.
Delivery from Japan
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