Talk:Love Park

Skate Rats

Wasn't this a level in a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game? --Liface 00:49, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

• The level was called Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was based around LOVE Park. It was from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 to be exact also. MBob 03:30, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Love-In

Again, things are missing here. For example, Robert Indiana's sculpture was thought up after the first Love-In in what was then JFK Park [or plaza] for the First International Pretzel & Hoagie Day in the early 1970's.

I know because our band, The BBC [the original The BBC] played that day and it was announced not as a Be-In, but as a Love-In.

Thereafter, it became, by word of mouth and by popular calling "Love Plaza." The sculpture finalized it.

You won't like the truth, but here it is: Love Plaza Love-In

The BBC: 8th Street Music printed up the guitar picks for us, in pink, with BBC on them. The videos are probably archived in all three networks in Philadelphia. The newspapers did a rather big story, from what I'm told, and we were a hit with the audience.

The sculpture was for that day when Philadelphia Pretzels & Hoagies established Love in the City of Brotherly Love once again.

And, all during that show, long before there were such things as skateboarders [per se], people were rollerskating, boxcart racing, and skateboarding right in front of us all day long as we played. For the story of how skateboarding came about, you'd have to see the article on how a milk crate cart became the first skateboard, 30 years before there were official skateboarders!

And I know that because I was skateboarding long before the official skateboarders.

Check The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the ABC, NBC, and CBS networks archives; you'll find it's all true.

Check your history and your sources. --—Preceding unsigned comment added by CyberSongs (talk • contribs) 17:05, 27 September 2006)

Skateboarding opponent to Street

On October 28, 2002, it was Edmund Bacon who was skateboarding in the park. The article mentions an incident where STreet's electoral opponent performed this demonstration. I cannot find any mention of that fact in the new archives. I believe this is a confusion of facts. I believe the writer was thinking of the October 2002 incident with the 92 year old former city plannner. Note, Sam Katz, during his campaign, did make several mentions that he would 'Free Love Park' if he was elected. But I am not aware of any incident where he actually skateboarded in the park. And if he did...Ed was the first.

Here's a timeline: Love Park Timeline, And some pictures: Edmund Bacon Skateboards

--Coplan 17:58, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

bacon

it should be mentioned in here that the strongest supporter of not changing love park was edmund bacon himself. he said it all over the place. he even went to at least one of the protests. i know because i was there...and because he was quoted in basically every newspaper article about the situation. he didn't care how his park was used, he was just glad that someone was enjoying it, skateboarding or not. 71.225.72.40 (talk) 21:30, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Please provide a reliable source. - Mdsummermsw (talk) 14:12, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I can't seem to find the original Inquirer article I read when the event actually occured, but here's a decent secondary reference: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2016/02/14/love-park-ed-bacon-skateboarding-video/ and it links to some good stuff like: http://www.libertycitypress.com/people-article/442-a-place-of-their-own.html I visited the talk page because I was surprised/disappointed that Bacon's opposition to the anti-skating stuff isn't mentioned. Especially his famous (to Philadelphians anyway) protest skate at the park in his 90s just prior to the renovations.Metaquanta (talk) 09:22, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Legislature or legislation?

The section Skateboarding and Politics says

Others, like Iain Borden, claim that “legislature directed at skateboarding is perhaps then not so much concerned with a crime as finding ever new ways for the conventionalized operations of the society to be legitimized.”

"Legislature" there must be an error for "legislation": that's the only way it makes sense. --Thnidu (talk) 08:57, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Changed to "legislation". --Thnidu (talk) 01:32, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Skateboarding in LOVE Park section removed

I have removed the 'Skateboarding in LOVE Park' because it was almost entirely copied from the ushistory.org website. I have nothing against having a Skateboarding section in the article, just use your own words and cite your sources. - Samuel Wiki (talk) 23:48, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

^ Who cares? If it's relevant, leave it in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:42:701:7CD0:85D3:15E2:3F0A:73CF (talk) 10:06, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

article title?

shouldn't the article properly be titled "John F. Kennedy Plaza" with a redirect?

Gjxj (talk) 14:37, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

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