Love Park was a skate Mecca for so many skaters in the 90s, And I used to skate there all the time. I was in a crowd of people gathered tightly in a semicircle when Vinnie Ponti first ollied down the fountain gap. I ran from the cops there. I watched the locals as they told some random they would film him and while he was preparing for a trick they mashed him in the head with a skateboard and stole his stuff. I dunno why they left me alone. Maybe because I started hanging out there more often, and was so one of the younger kids going there. Then this kid named Bam Margera, who was about my age, started doing huge burly tricks and landed a half-cab down the fountain. Nowadays neither of us can skate, but he's definitely still better than me.
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