- I started skateboarding in 1989.
It wasn't like a popular thing in rural Wisconsin.
The police, they would chase you out, and give you a ticket,
tell you how terrible everything that you're doing is.
But there were no skateparks.
And the city, I think, was ready to let us know
that we needed one, as well,
so we would leave the movie theater parking lot,
and take it somewhere else.
When I was a sophomore in high school,
a friend of mine,
he was going to have everybody sign a petition,
and then we're going to march down to City Hall,
and we're going to let them know that we're getting a skatepark.
And I'm not kidding you, those chairs were filled.
and the skatepark was built in the summer of 2001.
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