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Three other local sporting goods stores--Herman's World of Sporting Goods, James F. Brine, and Beacon Hill Skate Shop--all report similar sharp rises in skateboard sales since the end of last summer...
However, since the middle of last summer, Forsyth says, skateboards have been in demand once again. He attributes some of this resurgence to the recent movie Back to the Future, which showed teen idol Michael J. Fox finessing his way out of tight situations on a skateboard...
...This is the hottest they've been since the late 1970s and my inventory is the lowest it's been in the last five years," Forsyth says, adding that his store now sells three times as much skateboard equipment as it did two years ago--in 1985, he grossed $20,000 on skateboard merchandise alone...
Despite the overwhelmingly adolescent character of the new skateboard crowd, Forsyth says that he still sees some older customers--most of whom are punks. "Some of the more serious skateboarders come in with the colored hair and all of that--cosmetic trappings...
Backstrom has been riding the streets of Cambridge for seven years, frequenting the commercial skateboard park "Zero-gravity," a cement-lined basin, before it closed several years ago. Now, he practices at Turtle Park, a public facility on the Charles River with a paved surface just right for tricks...