Don Kahler, a.k.a. Crazy Don, a.k.a. Dirty Don. I met Don sometime during 1991, maybe that Summer. When I moved to Philadelphia for art school that Fall I ran into Mr. Kahler again at Love Park. We talked and before I knew it, Don was showing up at the dorms and soon we were spending a lot of time together skating together.
The real legend of Crazy Don started well before this time. He showed up at Love Park in Philadelphia with electric pruning shears and cleared away the years of overgrowth on the two ledges around the Love gap. This action created some of the best new lines on the upper plaza at Love and made clips like this possible.
I should also explain that Don liked to skate with inner tubes bolted to the top of his skateboard like makeshift snowboard bindings. This enabled him to do things that were otherwise impossible and in turn, he would take awful falls. Don didn’t seem to care what others thought of his style–he was just always having fun on the board.
Don later became G&E’s first pro rider and was actually the only person to ever have a GoodandEvil board with a name on them.