![]() Stan: So, I always tried to keep the dialogue going as I understood that if you want public places to skate you need the city council, because obviously you’re not gonna find a commercial partner to build stuff in public facilities. When they were re-developing the Marnixstraat they were “ well, let’s re-develop the small park, and maybe that’s a good place for a skatepark”, and I was like “ Fuck yeah, it is.” So we made some designs.Ĭonfusion: Ok, now let’s talk about Zeeburg: when and how everything started? They destroyed another spot in the Jordaan, and then I started really making a fuss and I went to the local city council office, I was still an angry young man, and the guy across the table was “ well, you got a point”, and the dialogue started. ![]() So I got some obstacles together, grabbed some stuff from the street like a wallie pole or a self-made manual pad from a table, and we called it the Amsterdam Junkie Jam, because there were still some heroin junkies in Amsterdam back then and there we made a big sign saying “ we need an indoor skatepark” and we got signatures and got the local newspaper to come. So 3rd floor skatepark closed, they removed the Museumplain ramps, so I was like fuck, skateboarding is dying we gotta do something about it, and ah, the first thing I did was organize a demo at the main shopping street when you come out of the station, right in the weekend in between the contest in London, Radlands, and the contest in Germany, because every year all the pros woud come to Amsterdam in between – to smoke of course. They were ramps built for indoors, so after a couple of years they were just beyond fixing, you know. So at the time the main spot in Amsterdam was the Museumplein where they had a good miniramp and a good vert ramp and the city removed it – a little side note is that those ramps used to be part of the Powell Peralta warehouse and they were sold to the municipality for a Guilder.
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