Seeing this made me wish I could afford to take the rest of the week off and fly back to be a part of this. Josh Ellis has a bunch of photos up on Wiskate.com that are going to give you a warm fuzzy. So it’s the Shot of the Week here on Skate and Annoy, but all the action is in Wisconsin. Beer City has another installment too.
SOTW 8-2-10: Digging out the Turf
8-5-2010 by Kilwag modified 8-4-10 - 8 comments
Categories: Back In The Day, Skate, Skate Harassment
Tags: Midwest, Milwaukee, The Turf, Wisconsin
Categories: Back In The Day, Skate, Skate Harassment
Tags: Midwest, Milwaukee, The Turf, Wisconsin
8-5-2010 by Kilwag modified 8-4-10 - 8 comments
Categories: Back In The Day, Skate, Skate Harassment
Tags: Midwest, Milwaukee, The Turf, Wisconsin
8 comments
Betsy
Update on The Turf. The City of Milwaukee filled it in, again, citing “safety” concerns.
Story:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/100081804.html
Facebook page to “Save The Turf”:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-The-Turf/108414375881238?ref=ts&v=wall#!/pages/Save-The-Turf/108414375881238
ssk
That is so cool. Lets flood their email address.
kevin
so hardcore i hope you get to the bottom of things fast
conahan
Really cool. Is there still coping?
luke
there is a real chance we might save the turf.
please contact the wisco DOT, as they are currently in charge…
here is the phone #: (608) 266-1114
here is the email: Frank.Busalacchi@dot.wi.gov
take 5 minutes and shoot them a friendly email, note the historical significance as well as the potential tourism dollars.
we need your help!
RH
I hope they use whisks/brushes instead of shovels when they get down to the fossils.
kaos
very awesome that thats being done but maybe it’s just me but i’d feel alot more comfortable having abit more work done before they blew it out it on the news. good luck.
Mac
I thought about that too, but there’s 50 dudes there digging, so it’s pretty solidly in the blown-out category already. That’s going to be one hell of a session in that little bowl…
It seems like the news story could work in their favor and buy them some time before the DOT shuts the excavation down. Maybe enough to get the clover out too. They should have public sentiment working for them. Could the Turf be declared a historical landmark and end up dug out under a re-positioned overpass? I guess stranger things have happened…