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West Los Angeles Courthouse

1. History - This section will describe the history of the West Los Angeles Courthouse and describe how it's relationship to skateboarders and skateboarding has changed throughout this time. It will be divided into two sections: A. Pre-2012 and B. Post-2012 and Nike SB. These two sections signify the two majors periods in this important symbolic and aesthetic shrine to skateboarding - the pre 2012 era in which skating here was illicit, and the spot was at it's most popular, and the post 2012 era in which Nike Skateboarding (Nike SB) purchased the property after the courthouse closed down and made it into a skatepark for all to freely enjoy, also signifying a change in acceptance of skateboarding in the United States. I plan on using Newly Skate Legal: Legendary West LA Courthouse https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/west-la-courthouse Pangilinan, John as my main source here, as it highlights a lot of the history that is important to cover, and to include photos of the courthouse before and after the Nike SB takeover.

2. Culture - This section will describe what makes this site so important to street skateboarding culture and urban culture as a whole, and establish it as one of the critical sites that allowed skateboarding culture to develop and flourish throughout the 90s and early 2000s, thanks in part to video footage of skaters trying to outdo eachother on the challenging and unintentionally ideal skateboarding obstacles throughout the last few decades. The section will also describe how the site's current status as a skate-legal park makes it more approachable to a newer generation that is more accepting and interested in skateboarding than generations past. I plan on using Recreation and Restrictions: Community Skateboard Parks in the United States Owens, Patsky Eubanks (Journal of Urban Geography, Volume 22, 2001 Issue 8) and Beloved West L.A. Courthouse Skate Plaza In Jeopardy https://smmirror.com/2018/10/beloved-west-l-a-courthouseskate-plaza-in-jeopardy/ to describe the sites culture impact, and will include photos of pro skaters pursued by police, as well as amateur skaters nowadays allowed to freely use the spot to help illustrate the cultural shift this landmark represents.

3. Aesthetics - This sections will highlight the aesthetic qualities of this spot that make it visually striking on it's own terms: the seemingly unintentionally beauty of the edges and lines of this site that both serve aesthetic and functional goals. The spaceship-like area where most of the most difficult and most famous tricks took place. the many different colors the banks and the edges of this site have taken on over the years, from white, to red, to blue, the more vibrant colors representing the liberation of this skate spot. This section will be full of different pictures of the many different beautiful features of this site, and the many different colors they have taken on across it's history, the photos and their dates relative to the history serving as my primary source.