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With the spread of the coronavirus and the Bay Area’s shelter-in-place order, shopping centers, coffee shops, and movie theaters are turning into ghost towns. The lack of cars on the roads and fewer civilians on the sidewalks has led to a surprising development: skaters have been given the run of the town.

San Francisco has long been considered a skating hub thanks to its warm climate, steep hills and the headquarters of the legendary skate magazine Thrasher. The sport has always been iconoclastic in nature, but skateboarders are doing their best to respect city ordinances while still hitting the streets   …  More

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