Today’s ride was a plan with pals Dave and Rob with two goals in mind: visit the site of the first skate park in Canada (maybe North America?) and also to find the hidden statue a few blocks away I had been tipped off by an Instagram follower.
Both were exceptionally anti-climatic.
I was meeting said friends at noon, but decided to take the long way there since I was ready to roll at 10:30. I ended up having to push much harder than I planned to because of brutal headwinds; we had heavy westerly winds all day. I stopped at the shipyards for this photo:
Below is where the skate park was. It was built in the ’70s, when skating was surf-inspired, so it didn’t resemble a modern skate park, instead being a concrete stream of sorts, with sloped sides that could be surfed from top to bottom. This video is what inspired our visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4lrt99GsMI
Alas, there isn’t much to see currently, no visible indication.
A few blocks away was the ‘Marble Lady’ I had read about. https://www.northshoreheritage.org/blog/2023/10/16/the-mystery-of-the-marble-lady
I cannot overemphasize how much smaller it was than what this story led me to believe:
Well, at least it was a nice day for a ride, despite the gnarly wind. Got a huge sandwich too!
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