Donnie 'Don Ho' Crist
Sunday, May 20, 2007

Hopes and dreams realized and destroyed. The undeniable legendary Dead Cat.

Ho is the shit! This dude is rippin' harder today! This is what he sent me:

Hey Rob, here are the photos you wanted. I started skating in the summer of '75. I
knew a kid with a board with clay wheels. We used to go to the mall and skate. My
first day on a board I was being pulled by a bike, I wiped out and took out an
old lady in the process. She was pissed. Soon after that urethane wheels came
out. Open ball bearings, then came closed bearing wheels. By '77, I was skating the
infamous Dead Cat Pool. By '78 we got our first really good park. It was called
High Roller. We were skating the desert pipes, dead cat and High Roller. It was a
great time for skateboarding. In '78 I was recruited by Stacy Peralta, I started
skating for Powell Peralta as an Am. Stacy had Jim Cassimus shoot me at High
Roller in the snake run. That's where I got my full page shot in Skateboarder
Mag. I skated for Stacy for nearly a year. I also skated for Pepsi Cola for a
short time...Ho