San Francisco “Skate Week” 2024: Friday Night Skate Around the City

Submitted by the Event Organizer

SKATE WEEK SAN FRANCISCO is a 6 day celebration of roller skating and inline skating in the greatest city in the world – San Francisco!!! This event celebrates 45 years since the birth of the Golden Gate Park Skate Patrol which was formed to keep roller skating from being banned in Golden Gate Park. We are inviting skaters from far and wide to come to San Francisco and experience our fun, exciting and unique skating culture that sets the trends that others around the world are following today. Indoors and outdoors, inline and quad. Disco, hip hop and even goth. One nation under a groove. That’s the San Francisco way. Some of the events will be held at the Church of 8 Wheels Roller Disco, some will be in Golden Gate Park. We even have a roller rink at the Golden Gate Bridge. We will showcase our skills at 6th Ave. Skatin’ Place and on the new JFK Promenade. We even want to encourage you to gain the knowledge and experience to do the same where you live!!! Here’s what’s going on at Skate Week San Francisco

The San Francisco Friday Night Skate

In 1989 the Loma Prieta Earthquake shut down the Embarcadero Freeway that flowed along the San Francisco waterfront. Skaters from the Skate Patrol began skating on it at night.  By the time it was torn down we had an entire route through the City. The Friday Night Skate was born.

Skaters will meet at 1 Embarcadero at the Ferry Building at 9PM.  They will skate a 12 mile loop through the City rolling through all the hot spots. Pier 39, Fisherman’s Wharf, The Marina, The Place of Fine Arts, the Broadway Tunnel, Union Square, the Concrete Canyons and back to the Ferry Building.  There are plenty of stops along the way. This ain’t no roller disco, but it is a funky good time!!!

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