{"id":20378,"date":"2010-12-17T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T17:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20378"},"modified":"2010-12-17T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T17:05:16","slug":"under-a-bridge-the-kingshighway-skate-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20378","title":{"rendered":"Under A Bridge: The Kingshighway Skate Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/4d06a1f23ae83.preview-300.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/4d06a1f23ae83.preview-300.jpg','popup','width=300,height=196,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/4d06a1f23ae83.preview-300-tm.jpg\" height=\"130\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"4D06A1F23Ae83.Preview-300\" \/><\/a>St. Louis, Missouri has it&#8217;s own DIY skateboard park at the corner of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?gl=us&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=38.61402,-90.267348&amp;spn=0.011317,0.016201&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">Kingshighway and Bischoff<\/a><\/strong>. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/suburban-journals\/metro\/news\/article_e2d9fada-a95e-5014-91ce-4a2f38ed89cf.html\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Today<\/a><\/strong> gets all the details.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The skatepark started out guerrilla-style in 2009 when a friend of DelCortivo&#8217;s, Kyle Crandall, was scouting urban skate locations. Crandall found the bridge and started pouring concrete under the south end of the bridge, attempting to build a bowl.  . . Word leaked fast in the tight-knit skate community, and soon enough dozens of skateboarders were helping convert the seamy underside of a bridge into something practical. Jones said the scene under the bridge before work got started was borderline post-apocalyptic. . . Burning mattresses, drug users, squatters and extensive trash and graffiti were all part of the environment. . . Most of that left with the arrival of the skatepark, although keeping the area graffiti-free requires constant vigilance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Urban renewal thanks to skateboarding. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/suburban-journals\/metro\/news\/article_e2d9fada-a95e-5014-91ce-4a2f38ed89cf.html\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Today<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis, Missouri has it&#8217;s own DIY skateboard park at the corner of Kingshighway and Bischoff. St. Louis Today gets all the details. The skatepark started out guerrilla-style in 2009 when a friend of DelCortivo&#8217;s, Kyle Crandall, was scouting urban skate locations. Crandall found the bridge and started pouring concrete under the south end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20379,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378\/revisions\/20379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}