Tony Hawk: Peak annual earnings during the 1980s skate boom were around $100,000
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Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk reflects on the peak income he earned as a young professional skateboarder in the late 1980s before the industry crashed in 1991.
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“I would say probably in, in my best year was, In the 100,000 ish, you know, in the late eight, mid eighties, late eighties, that was like lawyer salaries sort of thing.”
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