From: cablader@ix.netcom.com (D Miles)
Subject: [sfskaters] Changes coming for S.F. Friday Night Skate
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 09:58:15 -0700

Hi skaters,

We will all remember Friday the 13th '96.  Alex Bennett puts in his 
gooddentures in to rag on the air about the FNS.  The National Guard is 
called out to greet us on Union Street and then there's the San 
Francisco Port Commission.  (There was a great jam session with the 
street musicians at Union Square)

My e-mail is on the fritz, but I will have the info on the state of the 
skate by the end of today.  In the mean time we must put out the word 
on the relocation of the new gathering location and start of the skate.

It seems we have a problem with the San Francisco Port Commission.  I 
say it "seems" because no one from the Port will say exactly what the 
complaints are.  T

Last Friday night (9-13-96) the security officers that patrol the Ferry 
Building came over to the parking lot where the skaters gather for the 
night skate.  They came to inform the skaters of the "laws" they have 
been forced to enforce.  WE ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO GATHER IN THE 
PARKING LOT ACROSS FROM THE FERRY BUILDING.  They said that skating is 
not allowed on Port property and that we are trespassing on their 
property. They wanted us to all move right then, but I convinced them 
that would throw these 600 people into chaos.

This Friday we will meet at the parking lot near the intersection of  
Bryant and the Embarcadero.  This is south of the Ferry Building just 
past the Bay Bridge.  Ic is across the street from Pier 32, site of the 
Jeremia O'Brien Liberty Ship.  This has always served as an alternative 
meeting point for the FNS.    

I don't know how long we will be able to park here.  This could be a 
permanent spot, but who knows.  We will continue to skate every Friday 
as long as it doesn't rain.  

More to come. 

While I was writing this, I got a call from the Port asking us to pay 
to use the Ferry Building lot.  "You can become a tennant, you guys 
have money", he is saying to me on the phone right now.

More to come...