After going to the meeting and listening to all the kids wishing they could have a skate park in there neighborhood, it brought back memories of all the decades I’ve waited for a good skate park in Santa Cruz. Ironically the meeting was the evening of the same day as the Grand Opening for the Santa Cruz Skate Park. Our local kids need a place to skate. As a young teen skater we use to have to drive to Modesto and Sacramento to skate. That was a 2 1/2 hour – 3-hour one-way trip. In the mid 70’s we would drive to San Jose and skate 3 parks a night. San Jose had a park on Winchester Blvd. Bascom Avenue, Sunnyvale Saratoga, Milpitas, Newark, and Alameda. The only thing we had was Soquel Skate Park, which had bad transitions and poor concrete (sorry Ed). It sucked to put it lightly. Derby wasn’t any better. For a short while we had the Frederick Street Park but some kids got hurt and the city cut it in half and took the speed and fun out of the place.
I hope to motivate and inspire skaters in this community to keep the pressure on and to keep going to these meetings. You are the future of our community. I’d like this blog to be a spot where we can keep the local skate community posted on what is going on.
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