I thought I would take a second to share some of the characters of the park with you. The first one is of this crazy kid we have in our day camp this week. Every Wednesday we take a field trip to a small local free park, eat at
CiCi's or Jason's Deli, then skate Strawberry Park for our street spot. It just so happens that we noticed that the "wild one" resembled the kid on the poster behind him. It is kind of hard to tell since the kid is a little bit small, but if you have ever seen this kid snaking you and barking at you at the
skatepark then you will get a kick out of this poster. I don't think we have any plans of letting him forget about this either, we all had a big laugh over lunch. The next image is of the man who started it all for
Southside Skatepark back in the late 50's early 60's when he started buying up all the land available for sale in South Houston. I know he looks a little sketchy right here, with his swollen shut eye, but I can assure you he knows what he is doing, most of the time. According to him, he says he was weed eating one of his building when something hit him in the eye. He said that,"It hurt like a son-of-a-bitch, but I kept going to finish off what I had to do." Turns out that when he and his wife when out of town it flared up, sending him to the ER in Louisiana. Upon closer inspection it is really red and irritated but luckily it seems as though he is going to make a full recovery. He should be at home resting but instead we are running around messing with his buildings all over South Houston. The final one below is of a friend of the park who just came in to skate after getting a haircut and style, and I do mean style. Just look at this ridiculous hair, this is just not normal, at least not for most skateboarders. We usually hate
hairspray, gets all in your eyes when you skate as you sweat. Looks horrible and something that reminds you of a real jock mentality. Lucky enough for me, he just pushed it up to mess with us, I think, but maybe not, let's hope so. Just thought I would give you some examples of the type of characters we have to deal with on a daily basis at the park.
I thought I would take a second to share some of the characters of the park with you. The first one is of this crazy kid we have in our day camp this week. Every Wednesday we take a field trip to a small local free park, eat at CiCi's or Jason's Deli, then skate Strawberry Park for our street spot. It just so happens that we noticed that the "wild one" resembled the kid on the poster behind him. It is kind of hard to tell since the kid is a little bit small, but if you have ever seen this kid snaking you and barking at you at the skatepark then you will get a kick out of this poster. I don't think we have any plans of letting him forget about this either, we all had a big laugh over lunch. The next image is of the man who started it all for Southside Skatepark back in the late 50's early 60's when he started buying up all the land available for sale in South Houston. I know he looks a little sketchy right here, with his swollen shut eye, but I can assure you he knows what he is doing, most of the time. According to him, he says he was weed eating one of his building when something hit him in the eye. He said that,"It hurt like a son-of-a-bitch, but I kept going to finish off what I had to do." Turns out that when he and his wife when out of town it flared up, sending him to the ER in Louisiana. Upon closer inspection it is really red and irritated but luckily it seems as though he is going to make a full recovery. He should be at home resting but instead we are running around messing with his buildings all over South Houston. The final one below is of a friend of the park who just came in to skate after getting a haircut and style, and I do mean style. Just look at this ridiculous hair, this is just not normal, at least not for most skateboarders. We usually hate hairspray, gets all in your eyes when you skate as you sweat. Looks horrible and something that reminds you of a real jock mentality. Lucky enough for me, he just pushed it up to mess with us, I think, but maybe not, let's hope so. Just thought I would give you some examples of the type of characters we have to deal with on a daily basis at the park.
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