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NOW HEAR THIS: 99% Invisible does LOVE Park
The Jan. 23 episode of the always-great design-oriented 99% Invisible concerned LOVE Park's long, strange history as a skateboarding Mecca/no-man's-land
NOW HEAR THIS: 99% Invisible does LOVE Park
I'm a little behind in my podcast listening, so I only just now realized that the Jan. 23 episode of the always-great design-oriented 99% Invisible concerned LOVE Park's long, strange history as a skateboarding Mecca/no-man's-land. City Paper was there back in 2002, when 92-year-old city planner/Kevin Bacon's dad Ed Bacon put on a helmet and defied Mayor Street's skating ban. In fact, that's then news-editor Howard Altman and then-designer Brian Hogan holding the elder Bacon steady during his brief cube-gleaming. Here's what Altman wrote at the time.
"Don’t drop him,” I think to myself as I hold up the old man who is in the process of becoming the world’s most ancient skate rat. "Just don’t drop him. The last thing I want is The Bacon Brothers after me.”
It is a brisk Monday morning in late October. A smattering of skateboarders, a world-famous architect, a couple of television crews, the merely curious, a cop and the homeless have gathered around the LOVE sculpture in LOVE Park. They are here to see Edmund Bacon, the former city planner who envisioned this space, stage a four-wheeled rage against the machine.
"Cutting this park off from skateboarders is a serious mistake on the part of Mayor John Street," says Bacon as he steps gingerly onto a borrowed board. "And by this act of civil disobedience, I am showing my displeasure with the mayor's actions."
Read the rest of the story here.
Check out the full 99% Invisible story here. Then subscribe, because it really is one of the best podcasts out there.
Howard Altman's covering the news down in Tampa these days, and he's on Twitter.
You've been so totally scooped! (LOL)
http://sweet.afternoon-love.com/post/41294717912/99-invisible-episode-71-in-and-out-of-love— afternoon-love
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