WRASH
TOUGH ON CRIME
Lee Stephens and a number of other
Perry, Florida, skaters are quite amazed by
what they perceive as an extraordinary
societal turnaround. For example, local
newspapers now run articles with statements
such as, "While there really isn't a need for
student parking at Taylor County Junior High
School, sidewalk surfers still need a place
to park their rides. Hence, a corner of the.
principal's office has been designated as the
official skateboard parking place." The point
to all of this is that just a couple of months.
ago the mayor and others were trying to ban
skating. Now the junior high has an "official
skateboard parking lot." This change of
policy was reportedly caused by skaters and
their parents demanding the right to skate.
Perhaps governments elsewhere will follow.
In a similar vein the City Council of Niles,
Michigan recently made legal the act of
riding a skateboard upon city sidewalks. The
law makes each skater responsible for his
or her safe conduct. Local skaters have
strongly interacted with the council. Natas
Kaupas says that the local emporium,
Baschnagles Skates and Rags is the first
skate shop owned by a dog."
PARKED UP
The re-opening of Surf 'n' Turf skatepark
in Milwaukee, WI, has led the way for the
opening of two more third wave-type
skateparks in the Midwest in the past few
L to R: Professor Pierre
pondering pool. Eggs
on the scam. Gator and
Gator dater mugging.
Impact guy, John
Hogan, Jennifer and
her beau Chris Miller.
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months. Rockford, IL's Rotation Station is
really an indoor roller rink with a bunch of
street obstacles, open to skaters several
nights a week. Rotation Station owner Sandy
Mulligan's idea has been so successful that
she decided to add a huge half-pipe to her
Crazed Venitian females at Hosol's shindig.
facility just outside the building. Call her at
(815) 654-7477.
Another new facility is the Cedar Crest
skatepark in Kokomo, IN. This park has a 32"
wide metal half-pipe, a 24' by 5' tall mini-ramp
and even a streetstyle area. No, it's not
named after the infamous Cedar Crest
Country Club ramp, it's named after the bowl-
ing alley it sits behind. For more info call DK's
Skates at (317) 457-8669.
Will the island of Honolulu soon become
a Polynesian park paradise? Rumor has it
that, due to the tireless efforts of skate-mom
Patty May, twelve county-sponsored skate
facilities will be constructed at public parks
all over the island. Patty's pursued the goal
in tribute to her son, Jason May, who died
in a shooting accident.
McGill recently had yet another opening
party for his ever-expanding skatepark, built
over the old Carlsbad bowls. Some viewed
in apparent collaboration included Hawk,
Chris Livingston, Midgett, Partain,
Groholski, Demain, Donnie Griffin, Ray
Underhill, Jim Gray, Peter Kiss, Harnish
and Jean Marc Vissette.
MEDIA ABUSE DEPARTMENT
Zeke the Plumber of Davis, CA, reports
that on that intellectually provocative TV. pro-
gram Double Dare they've been giving away
Mad Magazine skateboards as consolation
prizes. (Zeke quite naturally won this month's
disgusting media abuse award hands down.)
QUESTIONABLE STATUS
Eric Dressen is predominantly displayed
in a recent Sony tape ad. A suspiciously
familiar handplant sign also appears. Could
it
be one and the same as the one used in
a recent Santa Cruz ad? Will the Big Balls
Boys at Santa Cruz be alarmed or are they
now doing ad campaigns for large multi-
national corporations? Is Dressen now riding
for Sony?
Is Bob Denike shunning the fat corporate
life in favor of the mean, lean music scene?
Rumor has it that Denike recently sent a
demo tape by his band, The Boneshavers,
to the Netherlands where it flew straight up
the charts to #5 on the radio station play list.
Another Willow Glen area (San Jose) star
took the reverse action, however. Craig Ram-
say reportedly stepped out of the Kingpins
line-up as a drummer, opting instead for the
lush/plush lifestyle as an employee of the
Intel computer company.
Salba, Grosso, Jesse and Mr.
Novak are all reportedly on the
way to a demo in Buenos Aries,
Argentina. Can it be
possible as rumored that
Dickvak is actually going
as chauffer/ chaperone?
Has Dave "Eggs" Williams, San Jose
skate denizen and pool cleaner extraor
dinaire, moved back home to Nebraska? Is
Eggs now kingpin of the Cornhusker ticket
scalping empire?
Is Britt Parrot, the legendary documen-
tarian and editor of guess what famous slick
skate zine, once again retiring to "go to col-
lege and become a writer"?
Rumor further has it that Ivan Hosoi is
starting up a skate art t-shirt company. Is it
true that he is paying residuals to a number
of notable participating skate artists and that
a full-scale exhibition and commemorative
video are also in the works?
What high-flying, fast-talking pro/manu
Swede allegedly snaked Jim Thiebaud by
blatantly stealing his prospective graphics?
Can it really be true that Marc Hostetter,
prominent Vista area back country local and
suspected Thunder rider is employed by the
Board stew at the San Francisco Fal
Tracker team and promotions department?
Is this yet another example of Bryan
Ridgeway's progressive thinking?
Were not Ridge, Chip Morton and
Tom Groholski recently spotted in
ON BOARD
side an Atlantic City casino doing in-depth
market research among 40-year-old
non-skaters?
Did Stufmaged Skot Werner start a rumor
that Jay Boy Adams was acting in the NYC
soap opera Ryan's Hope under the assumed
name Jason Adams? Werner, who was last
seen at the Milky Way club's new mini-
halfpipe, remains unavailable for comment.
Did San Francisco street dweller, Pierre,
spend three weeks carefully disecting Joe
Lopes' backyard ramp into two foot sections?
Was his only tool a two foot long crowbar?
Is Henry Hester serious when he states
categorically, "I'm a bachelor again--just 40
pounds away from the meat market."?
Hester, who is probably best known for
reviving the Fibre-Flex, is reportedly full on
into a new training program.
Have Mark and Cheryl Jorgensen of the
Summertree Lane launch ramp become the
originators of a new craze? Rumor has it that
Mr. and Mrs. Jorgenson have initiated
legal launch ramp release forms
which require parental premission,
etc. Is this the wave of the future or
is it reminiscent of the legal/skate-
park craze of the '70s?
DIGESTING ARCHITECTURE
TRACKER
A couple of Midwesterners gone west.
ing the trend towards team training exhibited
by Park Vans, Team Tracker, Mr. Mike McGill
and Homeboy Hawk, is it possible that major
manus are building skate facilities? Brad D,
head of the Vision empire, is supposedly
building a complex ramp structure deep in
the heart of Orange. Meanwhile, the Powell-
Peralta types who have been known to build
ramps in their factory recently had a party!
session under a 4-acre roof that many invites
referred to as the future corporate H.Q.
Amazingly enough, earlier in the day the
company held a public demonstration for the
city of Santa Barbara. Present at the "Create
A Skate Zone" demo were thousands,
including many top pros and ams who repre-
sent other manus.
And from our "Architectural
Genius" file: Consider the outstand-
ing work of Fredrick Scott. Mr. Scott.
learning from the "problems" of
some Visalia, CA, building owners,
has come up with some genius plans
to prevent skaters from riding on buildings,
including the use of rough textured plaster
and etched concrete surfaces. Apparently
Fred the Architect is unaware of soft wheels.
Elsewhere in V-town, merchants are report
edly adding lips, fences and textured drive-
ways in their effort to stem the rolling tribe.
Talking war of the training facilities: Follow-
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HERMA
SKUSE
ME!!
GOSH DARN
THEM CRAZY
Can it be true that the Park Plaza Hotel,
reported to be the site of the recent Powell-
Peralta Public Domain video premiere,
became so outraged over a certain unnamed
skater's private birthday party (held pre-
viously at the hotel), that hotel officials at-
tempted to back out of their commitment with
the P/P boys? Is it really possible that Peralta
was observed wearing a suit and tie costume
while he attempted to convince skeptical
SKATEBOARDERS
BAM!
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DON'T THEY KNOW
THE STUPID THINGS
ARE DANGEROUS!!
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