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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:48:16 -0600
From: Matt R.
Subject: the deep fried southun'sk8 scene-SIDESHOW Sk8park

Dear sirz- If we build it you will come, eh? Well me and my friend jon figured out how to scam the bank into loaning us 7000 dollars to start up a small sk8shop/park in our lovely redneck-babylon of Tupelo MS, (90 miles south of Memphis TN on US 78 east), and we built the holy shit out of it. . .

\___/ We first opened up in an abandoned little shop downtown where the small little group of local sk8rs usually hung out- We scammed an occupancy permit, tax ID #s from the state and the "federal"scenes, and spent almost all of our cash on sk8 inventory that we sold using the old profit-margin thing to blow up our bank rolls even more. Then we heard about an old monster truck/forklift shop that was going out of buisness across town and we scammed on thier building. We spent every dollar we had on first months rent and plywood for a killer street course, etc. and lo and behold it's 6 months later and we're still getting the MAN his money every month and making just enough for me to run the shop and eat at taco bell every day. We have an 8.5' x 16' qp with a 10.5' vert extention, a 6.5' x 12' qp, a 5' x 8' bank, a 2.5' x 8' pyramid with a 1.5' high grind box going up, across and down it, an 8' x8' wall ride with 4 solid feet of vert, and a 4' x 12' mini-half with an 8' wide spine. It is the most fun I have ever had on my stuntwood since the first day I bombed a hill on my butt 10 years ago. Some exposure would be the greatest favor to us since Tupelo is kind of a small shit-town that no one would ever come to for any other reason (except maybe to see the birthplace of Elvis Presley-woowee!). Our adress is

    627 E. President st.
    Tupelo MS, 38801.
    Phone # (601) 841-0480.
Oh yeah, my name's Matt Robinson. Glad to meet you. The south is about to blow up hard with the ammount of pure raw talent that thrives in these tiny little two-parking-lot towns (Jamie Thomas-need I say More?) and I'm not even gonna cry about how "the south doesn't get the coverage it deserves" because I realize that we don't have that much going on down here yet, but if you guys were to roll through, we would most DEFINATLY show that ass some suthun' hospitality. (don't worry-all skaters here have totally escaped redneckdom somehow, so we aren't idiots or anything.)
Wellsir-I'm gonna peep the rest of yer spot now. Thanx 4 the time- Matt R.