Tuesday, June 23, 2009
SKATE BOARDING & THE NEW SKATEBOARD PARK
Claremont has a new skateboard park and a lot can be said about this. As I am not a skateboarder myself, I can only speak from one who has seen the growth of this activity since its inception in Claremont many years ago. This activity is misunderstood by the majority of adults, not only in Claremont, but in other towns. Most of the opponents of open and free boarding are persons who have forgotten the lessons of childhood, who are afraid of risk-taking in nearly all forms, and who think that the roads and streets only belong to cars. Of course, the roads and streets and highways are becoming less accessible to people in contrast to the days when many of us enjoyed much more personal freedom with out government restrictions. To see this, just look at the old movies of the 20's,3o'40's, and 50's to see what I mean. Later in other comments and blogs, I will give more details for those who wonder what the fuss is all about.
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The first skateboard store was set up in Claremont in what is now the GODDARD EMPORIUM(which at one time housed the ENTIRE store of FISHMAN'Sa five and dimer.It was forced out with a lot of other entrepreneurs of various things by out-of-town landlords who up the rent exorbitantly, a topic that will be considered in another posting sometime, as out of town landlords have made a very negative impact for the most part, on the town of Claremont, as they have done in other parts of the country. Some of these ABSENTEE LANDLORDS are merely land-grabbers, land monopolists, and speculators, who allow property to degenerate or assist them in tax-write-offs.
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