wow, what a strange coincidence, Mark - My mom's been cleaning out
their house because my sister & her family have to move in temporarily
for the summer, so she dropped off some boxes of my old stuff to go through.
I found an old wallet from "back in the day" & inside was my ID from the
TURF, #10389, expires July 31,1992. (I'm a total numbskull when it comes
to posting photos, etc, hell, it took a sailor from Slovenia to set me up with
a yahoo email account, so sorry no pic). It's funny, when I looked at myself,
I thought, who the hell is this punk kid? Here's how hungry I was to skate
such a rad place though: I had a friend get out of the Navy who was going to
drive out to Chicago from MD & visit a shipmate of his, so i tagged along, hoping
to get up to Milwaukee somehow. They didn't skate, they drank, so I ended up
hungover & bummed that I was so close, & yet so far - when we drove back to
MD, I told another mutual friend how rad Chicago was, so he decided he wanted
to check it out too. I asked my boss for some more time off (he hated me anyway),
& the 2 of us drove back out there - It was the summer that Jeffrey Dahmer got
caught, all over the news, & we kind of were weirded out some- somehow, I
convinced my buddy (who also didn't skate) that we should check out Milwaukee,
& "oh yeah, there's this really awesome skatepark that has alot of chicks hanging
around... maybe you can hook up with one while all the guys are skating"
I don't know why, but he bought it, we found the TURF, & I was so blown away
by it, that the 1st thing I did when we went home is call up ANOTHER friend,
who DID skate, & convince him that he had to skate this killer place. So, I
ended up quitting my job (temporarily, I came back later & begged for it back)
stocking groceries, & both of us road tripped back out there to skate it again.
Funny thing is, I could probably tell that story to all kind of different people,
& the only ones who'd understand is some skateboarders - everyone else would
shake their heads wondering why go through all that trouble, did ya make any
money, did you see the sears tower, or eat some wisconsin cheese? I did drink
some Milwaukee's Best, but hell, I did that all the time anyway, it was one of
the few beers I could afford!

Anyway, someone posted some old footage of sam hitz tearing that place up on
Concrete Disciples not long ago, which made me question why in the hell it was
ever torn down, such a sick park!! My coper kept falling off when I went there,
& I was real paranoid that I'd get thrown out, because I'd heard they were strict
about enforcing that.

Here is a cool site,might see a few names you recognize???

http://www.noidnoskate.com/