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While the Louisiana skate scene extends well beyond New Orleans city’s limits, there are a few places we highly recommend you check out when you are there.
They re no longer in print.
While these and many other publications have shifted to digital only in recent years, there s a print magazine bucking the trends and still going strong:
Thrashermagazine. Created by skateboarders for skateboarders, Thrasher celebrates its 40th anniversary this month.
Founded in 1981 by Eric Swenson and Fausto Vitello, the San Francisco based publication has been busting out new issues every month for decades.
Thrasher captures the gnarly antics of skaters as they shred pools, bomb hills and hurl themselves down rails and staircases. Back then there weren t that many videos, so that was our source of skateboarding, Mike Carroll, a professional skateboarder, said.