Designer: Gordon & Smith
The Story: The precursor to the Proline 300 and 500, this original very late 60’s G&S Proline, only 7” wide, 30” long and thin 3/8” thickness, it is slimmer and lighter than all of the decks that would soon follow through the late 70’s and 80’s. Made int he early G&S days when they shared This is less of a daily driver and more of a museum piece, so few of these are still circulating through eBay and the likes, all snatched up by collectors. It is a rare piece of skateboard history.
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Gordon & Smith (G&S) Skateboards is one of the most storied names in skateboarding history, with roots going back to 1959 in San Diego, California.
Larry Gordon and Floyd Smith forged a close friendship surfing together in the mid-1950s, which led them to start building polyurethane foam surfboards out of Floyd's Pacific Beach garage.
In the summer of 1964, Larry developed a revolutionary skateboard by combining a fiberglass-reinforced epoxy material called Bo-Tuff with a maple wood core— the result was the iconic FibreFlex, the world's first laminated skateboard deck.
By the mid-1970s, the factory was churning out 500 FibreFlex boards a day, with a six-month backlog of orders. Skaters became overnight superstars and G&S sponsored some of the sport's biggest names — including Stacy Peralta, Neil Blender, Rob Dyrdek, Chris Miller, and Doug Saladino.
G&S was also one of the first companies to introduce the kicktail design, which greatly influenced modern skateboard deck shapes. During the 1980s industry downturn, the brand struggled, but never disappeared.
Today, the business is still family-owned and operated, with Debbie Gordon continuing the legacy after the passing of her brother Eric in late 2024 and their father Larry in 2016. G&S remains a true original.
Designer: Gordon & Smith
The Story: The precursor to the Proline 300 and 500, this original very late 60’s G&S Proline, only 7” wide, 30” long and thin 3/8” thickness, it is slimmer and lighter than all of the decks that would soon follow through the late 70’s and 80’s. Made int he early G&S days when they shared This is less of a daily driver and more of a museum piece, so few of these are still circulating through eBay and the likes, all snatched up by collectors. It is a rare piece of skateboard history.
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Gordon & Smith (G&S) Skateboards is one of the most storied names in skateboarding history, with roots going back to 1959 in San Diego, California.
Larry Gordon and Floyd Smith forged a close friendship surfing together in the mid-1950s, which led them to start building polyurethane foam surfboards out of Floyd's Pacific Beach garage.
In the summer of 1964, Larry developed a revolutionary skateboard by combining a fiberglass-reinforced epoxy material called Bo-Tuff with a maple wood core— the result was the iconic FibreFlex, the world's first laminated skateboard deck.
By the mid-1970s, the factory was churning out 500 FibreFlex boards a day, with a six-month backlog of orders. Skaters became overnight superstars and G&S sponsored some of the sport's biggest names — including Stacy Peralta, Neil Blender, Rob Dyrdek, Chris Miller, and Doug Saladino.
G&S was also one of the first companies to introduce the kicktail design, which greatly influenced modern skateboard deck shapes. During the 1980s industry downturn, the brand struggled, but never disappeared.
Today, the business is still family-owned and operated, with Debbie Gordon continuing the legacy after the passing of her brother Eric in late 2024 and their father Larry in 2016. G&S remains a true original.
