Sarasota has metal stick figure sculptures called Tube Dudes sprinkled all over town. I haven’t been to Payne Park in a handful of years. I don’t think this Tube Dude was there during my last visit. The baseball cap and basketball in hand are a bit of a head scratcher until you read the plaque dedicating it to “Coach Dan,” who must have been a basketball coach… who liked skateboarding?
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Ben
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20130208/ARTICLE/130209628
A bit on “Coach Dan”
He used to staff Paine park, super nice guy, was there for years. Sad loss commemorated by a weird sculpture.
I’m headed back to SRQ for my grandmother in laws birthday in July, planned to hit Paine, Oyster Creek and the new parks near Tampa. But, July….so nasty.
kevin
I was just there in december and it wasn’t there then. great park , and a insane real deal backyard pool with about 3 feet of vert a 1 foot of tranny in the shallow. loosen those trucks
Kilwag
Yeah that pool is about as replica as it gets in a skatepark situation.