Tony Hawk and the skateboard rabbit hole

This New Year’s Day we’re revisiting one of our all-time favorite episodes of The Broadside. We’ll be back with a new original show next week.

On a rainy day in 1979, a photograph was taken of a young girl skateboarding down a street in Fayetteville, North Carolina. 45 years later, that photo went viral with a little help from the most famous skater who ever lived: Tony Hawk. This week, we find out who the mystery girl in the picture was and why the snapshot was so ahead of its time…

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