Thrasher Magazine

A cast-and-crew premiere of that new Channel Street doc had San Pedro partyin’ hard. Congrats, concrete crusaders!

Ah, the marquee at the famous Warner Grand…

Hey, that’s better! SPSA pres Andy Harris, filmmaker April Jones and skatepark advocate Miki Vuckovich welcome you!

Just because you’re the president doesn’t mean you don’t get stuck on ticket-booth duty

Lining up early

Channel merch

It’s like the Cruz Dot shirt of San Pedro, really

Damn! They had a dog on the crew?

Cute couple alert ––Sally and Robbie Russo

He’s alive! Welcome back, Riley!

Rob Crawford gets ‘em juiced

Now THAT is a tote bag

Rachel, Sammy and Josh, ready for the big show

Bring your boyfriend! This movie’s for everyone

Some sort of Union thing?

Old glory waves over the good folks of San Pedro

Channel Street baddies …

Everywhere!

Chuck and Rita … check!

A confluence of brims

Elvis, Yamo, Andy and Jeff. Some of these dudes are even in this movie, we hear

Gummied up and ready

Rita and Mike, locals

Looks like we hit the golden hour!

Inside: raffle table floweth over. Thanks, Mowgli

Brisk biz in support of the park

Power chat with Vans honcho Pete Dericks. They ponied up big time for the park

Lorenzo gets stuck with raffle duty

Worm and Elvis

Los, Lawrence, Jake and a homie ready for excitement!

That’s right, kid! This movie is gonna knock your socks off!

Tino’s definitely seen Chin

Thank you for your service, sir

Noah’s crew is ready

Are these guys gonna hurt us?

Nah! Brandon, Nick, Lorenzo, Jesse, Jimmy and Evi are on our side

Rick Dog finally set up that Girl board

Cesar, Ryan and Clementine

Clayton Graul and a very groovy buddy. Clayton’s in the movie, too

It's gonna be a laugh riot!

Karen and the boys, at least two thumbs up

The Sandovals made it! Better believe it!

Safety first … always

A great father-son night out

For sure

We all reveled in Rob’s relative social discomfort

It’s gonna be fun, don’t worry

Show the boards! Nice!

Filmmaker April Jones, pre-show ritual on the side stage

(Falsetto scream here)

Raffle time!

A wheelbarrow full

Everyone was a winner

“Eh! Start this thing!”

But first … some special guests

Community leader John Bagakis of Big Nick’s Pizza introduces the folks that helped guide this project from outlaw lumps to point of civic pride

Former councilman (now LA Mayor candidate) Joe Buscaino tells the tale with County Supervisor Janice Hahn and councilman Tim McOsker

A major award for Mr Harris! Well earned

Am I the only one who could imagine Andy in local politics some day?

Rousing speech from our bearded leader

Nice work, Andy. And all the SPSA crew

NOW … on with the show.

Very epic. Can’t wait for everyone to see it

Excellent work by April

How sweet it is!

For life!

Congrats, everybody! Now it’s time to grab your board and go to Channel Street to see what all the fuss is about