#28. DISSING HOLLEY
A skateboarder grinds on the base of the second statue in the park.
The first statue was Garibaldi. The second was Holley. “Who?” you are right to ask.
Mustachioed Alexander Lyman Holley’s head and shoulders stand 9 feet high atop his white limestone pedestal. He’s bronze, but literally he’s the man of steel. The father of modern steel manufacturing in the U.S. No one knows him today. But the engineers of America knew. They commissioned his bust in 1889.
And today skateboarders chip away at his base with their grinds.
Bet they wouldn’t diss Tony Hawk like that.
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