https://www.badbillys.com/tags/skateparks/Recent content in Skateparks on BadBillys.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenBadBillys.comWed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/skatepark-closures-street-skating-shift/Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.badbillys.com/post/skatepark-closures-street-skating-shift/ <h2 id="the-boom-was-built-on-a-bust">The Boom Was Built on a Bust</h2> <p>The popular image of 1980s skateboarding — vert ramps, backyard halfpipes, street skaters grinding curbs in the suburbs — looks like a culture that chose the margins on purpose. In a sense it did, but the choice was forced. The reason skating moved out of purpose-built commercial parks and into driveways, drainage ditches and parking lots was not primarily an aesthetic preference. It was an insurance crisis. The infrastructure of the first skatepark era collapsed at the turn of the 1980s, and the culture that defined the rest of the decade grew up in the rubble. Understanding that collapse is essential to understanding the world Bad Billy's and every other late-80s skate brand entered.</p>