Exploring the golden age of skating in 90s Berlin:
Berlin has long been a destination for people in search of subcultural wildlife. Take, for example, the city’s skateboarding scene, which today is as vibrant as ever. Last year,dubbed the city “the new Barcelona”, i.e., the new European mecca for skate tourism.
On the other side of the wall, there was photographer Alex Foley, one of the West Berliners who remembers going on skate tours in the East and meeting GDR characters like Christian and Marco. In the late 80s in the West, skateboarding was more or less established. West German skater Titus, who today is credited with “bringing skating to Germany”, had already begun opening skate shops around the country and developing the industry.
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