Famous for their full-length movies, skate tour videos, and countless series of celebrity endorsed pro-edition skateboard decks featuring cutting-edge art, Girl Skateboard had a surprising start. Girl is, undeniably, one of the better-known manufacturers of skateboard-related goods.

 The Girl Skateboard Distribution Family, located in Torrance, California, has now grown to encompass seven other well-loved skate parts and accessories companies: Chocolate Skateboards, Skate Mental, CrailTap, Four Star Clothing, Royal Truck Co., Lakai Footwear, and Ruby Republic.

             Founded in August 1993, Girl Skateboards is managed by some of the biggest names in the industry. The outfit has murky origins born of high drama and well-publicized breaks within the skateboard establishment of the time. Friction between key personalities involved with World Industries and Plan B gave birth to Girl Skateboards.

 In 1993, Plan B skateboards suffered an internal accounting dispute; evidently somebody was skimming wheels off the top of the inventory rack. Mike Carroll and Rick Howard, both skaters for Plan B at the time, left as a result of the drama.

 Girl was born when Mike and Rick joined forces with Spike Jonze and Megan Baltimore, who left her position as an administrator for World Industries to join the team. A number of big name skaters, including accomplished pros Sean Sheffey, Guy Mariano, Tim Gavin and Eric Kosten all abandoned their other sponsorships to make up the original Girl Skateboard team, which was, ironically, made up of a team of six guys.

 In the intervening decade Girl has grown to be a force to be reckoned with, both as a skateboard clothing and supplies manufacturer, and for the award-winning skate teams that they sponsor and film.

 Megan Baltimore, known as “the Matriarch”, is the girl in Girl skateboards. Her main role today is archival, filming Girl’s pro team in action while mounted on a skateboard herself. Megan oversees the editing and clip compilation for both Girl and Chocolate Skateboard videos.

 She worked for three years on the most well known Girl Production, “Yeah Right!” with a 74 minute run-time which was finally released in 2003 and has received widespread acclaim, being commonly referred to as the best skateboard video to date. The success that Yeah Right! and other Girl Skateboard videos have found can be credited to the Matriarch’s tireless videography coupled with the acclaimed work of co-owner and cofounder Spike Jonze, who has been nominated for an Oscar for his directorial efforts in the film, “Adaptation” starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep.

             Girl Skateboards has an entire department, lovingly dubbed “The Dump” that works full-time on constantly reinventing the Girl image. Currently run by Tony Larson, Andy Mueller and Andy Jenkins, who can sometimes be spotted riding around in the “Art Dump Mobile Design unit” the Art Dump dabbles in everything from guest magazine Gallery Shows from San Francisco to New York.

             The Dump is the source of Girl’s unique, artistic board decks, which are impressive works of art in their own right, gracing the walls in skaters bedrooms as frequently as the boards under their feet, the Art Dump has become prominent in the general underground art scene.

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