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FACTOID: Park Slope starts skateboarding craze in 1893

inpixels
inpixels
edited November -1 in Park Slope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skateboarding

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  • drano
    drano
    Park Slope's proud skateboarding history: 100+ years and not a trick landed yet.
  • hamilton
    hamilton
    Most of the boarders I've seen could qualify for the Special Olympics
  • inpixels
    inpixels

    Subject: Taking for granted "Modern" Roads

    I will quote an article from the Brooklyn Eagle on July 18, 1897 that seems to still hold true today....

    “The great amount of asphalt and vitrified brick pavement that is replacing the noisy and miserably laid cobblestones, and even granite block, is not appreciated by Brooklyn people…”

    “…roads the smoothest in the country and as noiseless as can be provided for by the very latest scientific pavement…”

    Reading the article from the viewpoint of a reader of 100+ years ago, it would have been very exciting.....
  • hamilton
    hamilton

    Subject: Re: Taking for granted "Modern" Roads

    [quote="inpixels"]I will quote an article from the Brooklyn Eagle on July 18, 1897 that seems to still hold true today....

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    Try to update you reading it' 2008 :P
  • rainbowpromises
    rainbowpromises
    Sk8 or die Hamilton!
  • hamilton
    hamilton

    Subject: Do or Die

    rainbowpromises wrote: Sk8 or die Hamilton!
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    Not much of an alternative,but let me think about and I'll advise you tomorrow.

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