Skateboard shop moves out of old Hooper’s building

By Jessie Schiewe | September 22, 2011 |
Sam Worth, the owner of Hooper Vintage Skateboards and Chocolates, said that after a few months it was too difficult to pay the rent for the 21,000 square foot building that formerly housed a chocolate shop.

In early 2011,Worth signed a lease to rent the long-vacant Hooper’s Chocolate Shop on Telegraph Avenue in North Oakland. It had everything he was looking for: a great location, tons of space, and a unique interior. But despite his best efforts, the store was plagued with financial difficulties.

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Tired of delays, Bordertown’s skaters ride again

By Dara Kerr | December 23, 2010 |

Behind a 12-foot-high chain-link fence topped with barbed wire on a dead-end street underneath one of Oakland’s major freeways there is a concrete skate park called Bordertown. This West Oakland spot is the site of a long-standing controversy between the City of Oakland, Caltrans and the skateboarders that illegally built this park here six and a half years ago.

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