From the Internet is Occasional Awesome files comes an excellent story about history, persistence, skateboarding, and a dream deferred.
Dan Rodo is an internet sleuth/content creator/artist who's built an Instagram following of over 360,000 with creative and interesting videos focused on finding the stories behind photographs from events past.
Tony Hawk is, well, Tony Hawk.
The latter has been trying to find the identity of a skateboarder featured in a 1965 Life Magazine photo shoot for a long time.
In April, Hawk posted a picture of the mystery skater on Facebook, asking once again if anyone could help him identify the man in the image. Rodo's followers alerted him to the request, and then Hawk reached out to Rodo via DM asking if he'd be interested in helping find the laconically dapper gentlemen casually shredding old-school in Central Park.
To which Rodo, a passionate skater himself said (once he'd picked his jaw up off the table), "heck yeah", or some variant.
Which launched one of the cooler Instagram series I've seen in a while. Rodo's first episode is embedded below. His eighth just dropped last week. I commend to you the entire arc, both because of its fascinating subject matter and Rodo's meticulously detailed process.
This is the kind of shit the internet was made for. This, and rapping Muppets.
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