49f8/1247180566-skatepark4.jpg After an interminably long and ridiculous city process, the Seattle Center skatepark is finally open.

The park’s official opening is this Saturday—there will be a ribbon cutting at noon and skating competitions between 1:00 and 3:00 p.m.—but you can skate there now. fe68/1247183057-skatepark11.jpg
Photos by Victor Ng

Jonah Spangenthal-Lee: Proving you wrong since 1983.

8 replies on “SeaSk8 Lives Again”

  1. Unless you ride a BMX bike. In that case, the city invites you to slide ledges and gap stairs on any city property. Consider them your own bike friendly skatepark.

  2. Got to see the park christened with it’s first broken collar bone today. It’s cool that this park is much more street oriented than the other skateparks in the city.

  3. Congratulations, skaters. Not that this, or anything, could ever erase the pain of centuries of oppression at the hands of a society that doesn’t — can’t — won’t — ever understand. Not truly understand, because to understand would be to pierce the veil of heartache that binds skaterdom together like a steel band of hurt and alienation. Peace, my brothers.

    Not that any skater can ever feel peace after what’s been done to you. Obviously. But you know what I mean.

  4. Oh, piss off, Elenchos. It’s just a golf course or tennis courts for young people. No harm, no foul. That’s what parks are for.

  5. Well, excuse me for remembering how hard it is for the skaters. Excuse me because I care. Maybe I care too much, that’s all.

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