Do You Remember El Paso’s First Skateboard Park
The year was 1977. Earth shoes, disco, bell bottom jeans, and Farah Fawcett hair was in. So was skateboarding, and skaters all over El Paso were thrilled when Earth Surf, the EP's first skatepark, opened up.
Before Earth Surf opened up on Dyer in the northeast part of town, skateboarders had to make do with sidewalks, homemade ramps, and whatever else they could find, to skate on...