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This used to be a hot spot for flat bar sessions in the 1990s. Obviously, time, bad parking jobs, and snow plows have ruined it. The telephone company has their offices located to the top and left of the photo. The parking lot is fairly big and the rails run the length of the space to keep it separated from the other businesses next door. We would skate the bars at the far end of the lot, away from the building more. This would be the end of the one by the utility pole and the stand alone one in the foreground. There was a decent amount of flat ground, but the rails were the main attraction. My friend Paul was happy when he learned how to 50-50 round bars, as was the trend in the mid 90s, and liked this spot. I don't get how to skateboard on round things so I stuck to boardslides and maybe a few noseslides. I don't think we got kicked out too often, probably because we always went at night when there was a smaller staff working. Around about 2000, the parking lot on the right was repaved so you could ollie over the bar and jump from one lot to the next. I'd always hit it up to do that when I was in my cruise around the city phase. This was a decent enough spot and one of the few places with any type of rail in the immediate area.
Across the street from the phone company was a law office with what we called the White Benches. These were a pair of post-modern looking white fiberglass benches located in the space between the two buildings the lawyers owned. The sidewalk they were on was kind of rough and you had to contend with landing in the grass around them if you didn't pop off right. Once you got a feel for the sidewalk, it was a fine spot for a ledge starved town. I think I preferred this overall to the phone company. The fiberglass took a lot of abuse over the years and the owners eventually got rid of the benches. That's why there's no photo. I figured I had to mention the two spots since they were so close to each other. What's funny is I don't ever recall skating both on the same night. I assume it must have happened, but I think it was a one or the other type of situation.
