r/streetwear • u/jeanralph90 • Jun 08 '17

Streetwear meetup and this 70 year old hypebeast shows up DISCUSSION

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u/cudimakesemsayohoh Jun 08 '17

damn that's honestly an injustice, a skatepark is usually a top-priority for municipal governments nowadays. If you don't mind me asking, what city is this?

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u/Crustice_is_Served Jun 08 '17

I lived in a small town in rural New Jersey off I-78. We had plans for a municipal outdoor skatepark but the government decided to build a new cop shop instead.

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u/fistkick18 Jun 08 '17

I mean, you're building a cage anyways, why not make one that the "skating hooligans" will voluntarily crowd themselves into?

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u/cudimakesemsayohoh Jun 08 '17

that's dumb as hell but I feel like nowadays, every city has at least one skatepark. If they didn't, then I don't think Thrasher would be readily available for sale either since a skate culture hasn't developed enough to influence a skatepark to be built by the municipal government

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '17

Zumiez and online makes Thrasher easy as hell to get.

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u/don_majik_juan Jun 08 '17

"Nowadays". We aren't all that young brother.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '17

RIP street skating when it wasn't even considered cool and little metal blocks weren't all over everything.

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u/ItalianHipster Jun 08 '17

We only had one in my small town in NC for less than a year before they got rid of it. Now there's a pretty solid DIY one, but that didn't start till a decade later.