John F. Kennedy Plaza single-handedly made Philly a skateboarding town. It’s better known as Love Park, after the Robert Indiana sculpture that was installed there in 1976, and is much better known among skateboarders than the civilian public. The park was laid out in the 1960s, part of an effort to revitalize Philadelphia as its industrial base declined, a place for the new Organization Man to take lunch al fresco. Within a couple of decades, it would become a magnet for the city’s growing homeless population, thinning out the lunch crowd while creating room for a new species to emerge: the puffily shod, baggily pantsed street skater of the 1990s.