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i was one of the kids who grew up in petrolia was learning how to skateboard when the ramp was built, and to hear this be talked about and to have been apart of this history and know the people who were all apart of making this happen, its just really cool and i never would have thought it would be something the rest of humboldt would be talking about 20+ years later…..