5th Annual Skateboarding Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Yesterday the 5th Annual Skateboarding Hall of Fame induction ceremony was held in Costa Mesa.
with the following 2014 inductees:

1960s – Gregg Carroll
1970s Era One – Jim Muir
1970s Era Two – Steve Olson
1980s Era One – Lance Mountain
1980s Era Two – Natas Kaupas
1960s Women – Laurie Turner DeMott
1970s Women – Ellen Oneal Deason

It was a realy nice event with a lot of cool stories from the all the legends.
A good history lesson. And maybe we´ll see some European skaters getting an award someday…

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Some historic stuff on display
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Dave Hackett
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Grant Brittain happy with his well deserved award
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Steve Alba and Stan Hoffmans son introducing the Pipeline Skatepark
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Stan Hoffmans son with award
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Stan Hoffman and Grant Brittain
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Fauso Vitello
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Laurie Turner Demott
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Gregg Carroll´s dauther read the speach her dad wrote for his induction before he passed away.
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Ellan Oneal Deason
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Ellan Oneal Deason happy with her award
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Geln E. Friedman and CR Stecyck introducing Jim Muir
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Jim Muir proudly holds his award
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Steve Olson didn´t need his reading glasses he went for the shades instead
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Dave is stoked for Olson
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Lance Mountain friends from Skate City days John Lucero, Hagop Nagarian and Jeff Grosso
singing a song for Lance. Where´s Neil?
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Lance Mountain and his award
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Skip Engblom introducing Natas Kaupas
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Natas and Skip
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Thanks to Josh Friedberg, Erika Klein and Jim Gray.
More info about the Skateboarding Hall of Fame here