Vintage Chicago trucks

Chicago Blowout

I’m in the burbs of Chicago for about a week for my grandmother’s 90th birthday. I didn’t get a chance to get anything scheduled before I left, so the updates from yours truly are going to be infrequent and brief. If any of the other contributors want to stage a coup and step up the posts, now’s the time. What’s the picture relevance? Those are vintage Chicago Trucks, harder to find a decent picture of than I thought. Couldn’t score a close up. Left: Current eBay auction. Right: A Bahne setup with Chicago Trucks via Surfa Sam’s 2005 Australian eBay report.

I’m in Naperville, actually. Since I last visited there is supposedly a new concrete skatepark in addition to downtown’s prefab park. I’m going to check them both out, but let’s face it, I’m not going to hold my breath.

Discussion

3 thoughts on “Chicago Blowout

  1. You should venture just east to Whiting. They have an interesting little park with 2 gigantic concrete holes. One hole is big, deep, smooth and fast… the other is lumpy, poorly designed and was poured by complete amateurs. Take your gnar. A bit north and on the coast is Wilson Ave park. Definitely worth a session if ya have time. Don’t waste your time at the one near(just a block or so south from) the McCormack center. It really sucks.

  2. skaterdave on August 7, 2008 - Reply

    Whiting turned out pretty well considering almost everyone involved was butt ass wasted for most of the job…

  3. Prickly Pete on August 8, 2008 - Reply

    Hope you can do a post on what you find out there. I’m going out to Chicagoland (elgin) in September. My mother-in-law told me about a call for voulnteers to “assemble” the new Elgin park. I’m stoked already.

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