Fausto Vitello

Fausto Vitello was an Argentine-American businessman, magazine publisher and skateboarder, born on 7 August 1946 and died on 22 April 2006, who created Thrasher Magazine and co-founded Independent Trucks. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but his family left when he was nine to escape the political terror that followed the Revolucion Libertadora, and he was raised on Frederick Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood of San Francisco. He spoke no English on arrival and taught himself by listening to San Francisco Giants broadcasts, beginning a lifelong love for the team. He spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Spanish, and he married Gwynn Rose, whom he met on campus.