The Snake Run veterans: Australia's oldest skatepark turns a gnarly 40 — theguardian.com

The last time Laurie Terlick found himself on a skateboard was 38 years ago. Back then he was a devil-may-care teenager living in the small city of Albany, Western Australia. Terlick and his mates would skate barefoot on home-made boards, wearing just-below-the-bum stubbies, T-shirts optional. They would come home to dinner tables sporting red raw knees and elbows – as the maxim goes, “if you don’t fall off you’re not trying hard enough”.

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