Bette Davis’ eyes are quite strange tbh.
saw ‘All About Eve’ a little while ago, she’s sort of hypnotic
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Must be? That was the spot known as ‘Walking Man’ right? I fs flipped the stairs and 50-50d the flat bars. If that’s the place then Ches, John Winter, Baines and Tubb etc did loads of stuff there.
I broke my big toe there and it hurts more today than it did 30 years ago 
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Here you go…this John Winter clip is filmed there.
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Enjoyed that, looking forward to more
On reading more about the Vaillancourt Fountain, never knew this:
On Nov. 11, 1987, during an impromptu concert held at Justin Herman Plaza, Bono, of the rock group U2, much to the chagrin of then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein, tagged the fountain in support of Vaillancourt.
Source: https://www.sfmta.com/blog/panoramas-and-public-art-vaillancourt-fountain
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That was still there the first year I got to Sheffield it was really weird, gave you dystopian movie feelings…one of those Clockwork Orange type of places. It was gone by the time I left.
My fondest memories were of the Sheffield Hallam Uni ledges. That spot was so sick.
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When I read her name I couldn’t help but hear it in Jello Biafra’s voice, haha. She was the successful candidate in the mayoral election when Jello too ran for mayor of SF (iirc). I guess that he must have slagged her off enough times for it to stick in my memory like that.
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Part 2: Ted wanders round the corner from Embacadero and takes a look at Hubba Hideout and surrounding area.
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Part 3: Bay blocks.
Short article which mentions the designers / architects of the blocks’ reaction to skaters using the spot to be found here.
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I’d pay good money towards Ted continuing to do these, travelling the world.
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wry interpretation of pigs ear.
i thought of this:
“make a pig’s ear of it” - to handle ineptly
doubly wry considering the people involved in the design arent hyped on it at all anymore.
p.s. Creager footage with lit blocks was
lit!
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These are really good.
Big up all involved.
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I know it’s a BMX thing and it’s not concrete but wood, but if you were getting Action Bike / RAD at the time, or skating Meanwhile you’ll recognise these quarters. Either from the photos that were published, (I had some of them on my wall at points - they were bangers), or from when you passed by on the way to Meanwhile 2. You may have even skated them. I know I hit them up a couple of times. Came past in 88/89 and they’d gone. I haven’t really thought about them since. This won’t be of interest to the majority and maybe there’ll be zero takers but some of you guys might be into it.
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Feedback Ted dropping city management knowledge on Mostly
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Goes without saying but these (this old ledge) are all top notch
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Satanic panic around a spot in a Noguchi designed park.
More Noguchi x skateboarding here -
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very into architecture that mixes both skateboarding opportunity & satanism…
the Village Psychic newsletter has other good stuff in too, inc:
https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=b2ab10d8df14b324191c04400&id=75408cd9b4
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