56 THRASHER MAGAZINE
NSA
HOU AMEN
STORY BY MYO
Itchy the Gimp joins
the other Dark Room
Rangers, who hurriedly
load equipment into the
back of a late model
French sedan. Raindrops
pelt their heads, drip
down their cheeks, run
off their noses and fall
into the gravet at their
scurrying feet.
Sliding behind the
wheel, Flat Top puffs on
cigarete like crazy
Hehy calls shotgun, so
Limpy Dee squeezes
himself into the back.
seat, wedging up against
a box containing twenty
thousand dollars worth
of high voltage, quasi-
thernacular, NASA sur
plus strobe equipment,
which was carefully
acquired a few nights
prior at considerable
risk. Now thoroughly
squished, Limp wonders
how long it will be till
he messes up. Privately,
he hopes Flat Top will
mess up first.
An Elton John/Kiki
Dee song floats
out of the
field radio. Itchy sings
along and wonders if
Limp is somehow relat-
ed to Kiki,
Heavy thunder clouds
hang low over all of
Northern California.
The foreboding and
wetness is dwarfed,
however, by the stormy
war clouds gathering in
the skies of the Middle
East. Flat steers the
sedan onto southbound
101, past Candlestick
Park, home of the
hottest football and
baseball teams in the
world. Near the airport,
they see the sign for San
Jose with an arow
pointing to where it is
supposed to be. Flat Top
flicks his smoke right by
Itchy's nose, out the
Passenger window, and
screams, "San Jose? I
KNOW THE WAY!"
Much skateboard his-
tory has taken place in
the legendary city of
San Jose. Like the early
settlers who first
forged the way
through unknown ter-
rain over one hundred
years ago, the early.
skaters of the San Jose
area paved the way for
today's pilots, with lots
of sweat and blood. The
region yielded its share
of skateparks - most
memorably Winchester,
Milpitas, and Campbell
where many of
today's veterans laid
down some of their very
first tracks.
San Jose Civic Auditor-
ium is the destination;
the function is a glori-
ous get together put on
by the NSA. Skate Town.
Mania it's called, a
booner session on a
massive mini-ramp built
in the shape of a giant
nine, or maybe a six
(see diagram next page).
The Civic, used for
basketball games and
occasionall rock 'n' roll
concerts, is ideal for this
sort of event. The horse-
shoe-shaped seating
arrangement provides.
an excellent vantage
point from almost any-
where in the house.
Limp and Flat unload
the hardware while
Itchy seeks the premium
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