Famous skateboard man Tony Hawk took a break from landing 900s and lending his name to highly addictive video games to visit St. Louis back in September, resulting in a delightful bit of footage of the Hawkman skating one of our local parks while flying a St. Louis flag.
The Peter Mathews Memorial Skate Garden in the Bevo Mill neighborhood was the site of the scene, where local skaters had labored for months on a set of upgrades for which Hawk himself had been instrumental. The park, which was first built in 2014, was granted $25,000 in funds in 2017 by the Tony Hawk Foundation, in cooperation with car manufacturer Mini, in order to improve and expand.
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Construction took place throughout the late summer, and on September 12 Hawk stopped by for the improved park's grand opening.…