CENTREVILLE, Va. — Behind the million-dollar homes off Bull Run Post Office Road, the quiet woods hide what was once a counterculture rallying point that drew skateboarders, punk rockers and young people searching for acceptance to a remote area of western Fairfax County: a country club with the best halfpipe on the East Coast.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, the skateboard ramp, incongruously built on the grounds of what was then Cedar Crest Country Club, was an underground mecca with an energy that still reverberates for three filmmakers with local roots who remember what it was like to skate along its steely sides.
Now, a documentary film details the ramp’s story and its place in counterculture history. “Blood and Steel: Cedar Crest Country Club,” premieres Sunday evening at The State Theatre, in Falls Church.
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