(The Godfather of Skating gets down)
Last Night: Barack Obama Presidential Inauguration Skaters' Ball
FunkyTown Roller Rink (also known as the gym at International Studies Academy in Potrero Hill)
January 20, 2009
Better than: Watching CNN on loop.
As the brainchild behind the Midnight Rollers Friday Night Skate and the Golden Gate Park gatherings every Sunday, David Miles, Jr. has been synonymous with rollerskating in San Francisco for 30 years. He's rarely without wheels on his fe
Leading the skate skate revolution...
San Francisco's GodFather of Skating, David Miles, Jr., has been one of the main supporters of Sunday Streets, the city's new series of events in which avenues are closed off to traffic to give bikers, skaters, and strollers free reign of the roadway.
At the last event in the Mission, Miles' Golden Gate Park Sunday skate possee moved their act to Valencia Street to perform "Thriller," "Electric Slide,