[reel clacking] [soft bright music] - Newspapers in these mid-sized cities, I think, played a crucial role.

And it's very a small window of history that you'd have seven or eight photographers covering an entire town.

You know, it really started probably here in the seventies, late sixties.

It's a very unique window to have that history documented in a professional way.

You know, we have hundreds of boxes of negatives and I just wanna get those images to see the light of day.

In 2019, is probably when I started scanning these old negatives, so I decided to take that upon myself 'cause I was afraid what's gonna happen to these negatives.

Are they gonna get trashed?

Are they gonna start decaying or something?

When I came across that image, what I really liked about, I grew up skateboarding in Southern California, so anytime there was a skateboarding image, you know, it kind of jumps out at me.

But that one really, you know, just her stance, the way she's standing, the umbrella is just a perfect little moment.

[upbeat music] The ones that make the cut, it's either gotta have, I feel like a significance to the town, or it is just a beautiful little moment.

And that was one of those beautiful little moments.

People care about those little moments, and those are usually the ones that get shared more.

[upbeat music continues] So I put it in a gallery of like 50 images on the Fayetteville Observer website.

Then that image got shared on a Black Archives Instagram page, then got shared by Clyde Singleton who's a professional skater.

Then Tony Hawk shared it.

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My name's Clyde Singleton.

I'm a professional skateboarder, chef.

I host my own podcast.

I own skateboard company called Ollie Llama.

I do a bunch of things.

I'm a doer of things.

That's what I do.

[laughs] I came in skateboarding between '86 and '87.

I didn't have friends that looked like me that's skateboarding.

You just had to be mentally tough to get through it, you know?

You were the only black guy skateboarding, you know?

And it mattered.

[energetic punk rock music] My buddy, Ollie Yasha, sent this photo and I was like, "Get out of here."

I thought it was a AI photo at first.

So I repost the photo and write a funny caption to it.

She was just like, "Okay, we found the new queen of skateboard."

And I was like, "Why don't they ever show us things like this?"

I think I tagged Tony Hawk in 'cause Tony Hawk and I are friends, and I was like, "Hey, we should find her."

- And I thought it was an amazing image and just what it, a formative time in skateboarding, but one that isn't well-documented.

And so, I reposted it, and I just thought it was very cool.

And next thing I know, it kind of caught wildfire.

- And that's the beauty of it, you know, is to be able to share it.

And people were like, everyone was so stoked on the photo.

Little did I know that the Fayetteville Observer had gotten a hold of all of this, and they were finding her with Tony Hawk.

- And I'm like, "Oh, Tony Hawk shared.

That's crazy."

I see her look at the comments and you know, he wants to find out who she is.

And I'm like, "Well, I think that's gonna be pretty easy for me."

[upbeat music] - My name is Shaunda Shane, and I'm from Fayetteville, North Carolina.

I'm the girl in the picture on the skateboard holding the umbrella in the rain from 1979.

I started getting messages on Messenger from people that I have no clue who they were.

And it was like, "I know you don't know me, but Tony Hawk is looking for you."

And I'm like, "What?"

- Perfect.

- Another guest in the room with us.

- Nice to meet you.

- You too.

- So this is your old neighborhood?

- Yes.

- So on Dinsmore and where the iconic picture was taken.

So is this your grandparents house?

Tell me.

- My grandparents, yeah, that's their house.

- Do you remember that day when Mr. Steve came out?

- I do.

So Steve came out and asked me, "Can I take a picture of you?

Go ask your parents so I can take a photo."

So I ran in the house, my grandparents said, "Yes."

So came outside and he, you know, took some pictures of me and that was it.

And he told me what day it would be in the newspaper.

And it was in the newspaper, and.

- [Heather] So he made sure that shot was in the newspaper.

- [Shaunda] He definitely made sure that shot was in the newspaper.

- Ah, okay.

There we go.

Did you just bomb this hill once you got better.

- I would go flying out of my, I would come out of my driveway flying down the hill.

- Are you so surprised at how this picture is?

- I am.

- Where it has gone?

Who has seen it?

- Yeah.

- Yes.

- What was it like for you to connect with Tony Hawk on the podcast?

What did you think?

- I'd really didn't expect him to be so cool.

He's really down to earth.

Really Cool.

- [Tony] Just on a personal note, I love that you stand with your right foot forward.

That's what we call goofy-footed.

That's how I stand.

- [Shaunda] Yeah.

- Can you explain what goofy-footed means for people who don't?

- It just means that your right foot is forward on the skateboard.

If your left foot is forward, they call that, actually, regular-footed which I still take issue with.

But I'm proud to know that Shaunda is a fellow goofy-footer.

- [Shaunda] I definitely am.

[laughs] I wanna thank Tony, again, for even posting that picture 'cause you have made me like a little celebrity.

[Tony laughs] - [Tony] Oh, thank you.

Well, it was my honor and my pleasure.

And I know it may not have seemed like much to you at the time, but your bravery and your confidence is one of the reasons that we have such equity in our sport now.

- [Shaunda] Yeah.

- [Tony] You know, that you were one of the pioneers and whether you know it or not, you're inspiring girls to skate now.

And we literally have parody in our competitions.

It's an Olympic sport now.

There's women's and men's divisions.

There's equal prize money, and you're a part of that story.

So we appreciate it.

- [Shaunda] Thank you so much.

Thank you.

- It meant a lot to me, you know?

I just want her to know it meant a lot to me.

And I guess I have a pretty big audience, you know?

And they dug it and that's cool.

But it's more about her, you know?

I'd love her to know it's about her at the end of the day.

And I'm very happy to be able to share something like that.

You know, I think it's important to see that black women skateboard in the '70s.

That is powerful stuff, man.

That is very, very powerful.

That is a powerful image.

- Yeah, I never would've thought any of this would've happened from scanning that photo.

I thought it was a great picture.

But I feel like a lot of times, I'm not sure the impact some photos are having 'cause you just kind of send it out into the wild.

But that's all I wanna do.

Just send it out there, and if something happens, that's great.

Everybody in the community was kind of excited about it.

Like there was a vintage clothing store in town that was Westdale, a vintage, called her up, too, and you know, said, "Hey, we got a perfect outfit for you to wear for this if they're gonna recreate the photo."

- So, hopefully, this story will make some little girls wanna get out and try to skateboard.

And then the skateboards nowadays are, you know, so cool.

- [Heather] Oh, my gosh, it's so cool, Shaunda.

- And then he autographed it, and then they put the umbrella.

- [Heather] Oh my, gosh.

[Shaunda laughs] That's incredible.

- [Shaunda] Yeah.

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