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Skateboarding history, culture, and people
The Yet

The Yet

March 2026

Eight of us are here. One is skating. The other seven showed up to make it possible.

Terminal Velocity

Terminal Velocity

February 2026

The bricks were red, Italian-style, inspired by Siena's Piazza del Campo. By 1989, the Embarcadero Plaza had transformed into something the architects never intended. Five years later, it was dead. This is the pattern that kills skate spots—and what cities destroy when they install skate stoppers.

Burnside Never Asked for Permission

Burnside Never Asked for Permission

2026

On Halloween night, 1990, three skaters showed up under the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon with some bags of cement and an idea that was certainly illegal.