Pay the Troll: WSVT 20th Birthday Bash Photos

4/19/2019

It all started 20 years ago with an empty space under a bridge, a stolen flatbar, bags of ‘crete, hard work and a lot of beer. Washington St skatepark just hit the two-decade mark. Who would have ever thought it would last this long? It’s one of the best skateparks in San Diego—hands down! To celebrate, the park got lit up and one of the heaviest sessions ever took place. Here’s to another 20 years! –Rhino

Tom Seq Tom Schaar—up, up and out to the back ledge, then back in

1 750px James “Sperm” Broderick and Brandon Perelson holding down the raffle table out front

2 750px These dudes poured some blood, sweat, beers and concrete into the park—Sperm, Dykma and Mikey Ratt

3 750px Marcel Martinez enjoying the calm before the storm

4 750px WSVT local Lux Crews knows you gotta show up early to get some runs

5 750px Joe Pino celebrates with a rock and roll on the 20th B-Day graff

6 750px Second time skating here, Pedro Quintas front feebles like local

7 750px Pretty much raised at the bridge, Judo watches the session go down

8 750px Toby Koala coming in hot with an Indy 540 in the AM

9 750px Marcel, stylish eggplant

10 750px WSVT locs

11 750px Years ago you wouldn’t think to bring your kids down here. Times have changed a little—Damon Mills with his daughter

12 750px Lefty and Hewitt

13 750px Tim Aguilar, backside boneless

14 750px Back country lurking

15 750px Omar has done some damage down here over the years, fastplant to fakie

16 750px Mazapan, lofty frontside air

17 750px Cruise Mosberg, Indy fastpant off the pillar

Liam Seq The first time Liam Pace skated WSVT he was ten and he knocked his teeth out. This was his second time here. Heavy hip-to-hip transfer, no teeth were lost

19 750px The grill was fired up all day with $5 burgers

20 750px Chris Russell shotguns his thirst away

21 750px The Muscle with a huge boneless one

22 750px Alley-oop eggplant on the big wall. Russell was killing it

23 750px Marcel didn’t stop skating all day—lien to tailslide fist try in the cradle

24 750px Patrick Ryan, Clay Kreiner and Tom Schaar

25 750px Pineapple, Pino and Mike Neff

26 750px No stranger to skating under bridges—Neil Heddings, front rock

27 750px The session’s about to get turned up to 11

28 750px Front row seats for the cradle show

29 750px The Muscle, locked-in switch crooked grind

30 750px The crowd was fired up!

31 750px Marcel shuts it down with a NDB frontside invert on the cradle. WTF? Happy B-Day, WSVT!