This is a rad skate cartoon I drew ‘back in the day’. I was moving around a lot in 1990. I had just left the candy coated bubble that is art school and was transitioning back into the default world. A friend from the local punk scene recently moved to Charleston, SC and married his girlfriend. Turns out her dad is loaded and wants to help his new son-in-law establish a legitimate income. Green Day had just been invented so being punk and having a band wasn’t a career option yet. Dude jumped at the opportunity and dad put up the cash to build a massive indoor skate park. They hired the world’s preeminent ramp builder, Tim Payne to design and build an enormous side by side double bowl in a giant metal building. I was living in Raleigh, NC at the time so I drove down to Charleston one night. My friend said he’d put me to work “doing something” which sounded more fun than working in a pizza shop, which was my current means of accruing wealth. They called it The Hangar at first because the original site they scouted was an abandoned airplane hangar. That first location didn’t work out due to zoning or something so they ended up in an industrial area and calling it The Hanger. I drew this cartoon before the name changing decision was made.
Old school skates at The Hanger:
That’s my friend, Rich with his gold Les Paul guitar.
