I know this is a long shot, but Ron Allen had an essay about skating Oakland at night in one of the early issues of Slap. This was back when you could hit all the regular Oakland spots--Tech, Wells Fargo, the museum, Rockridge BART, etc.--and not see another skater. Anyone know if there's a scan of that somewhere?
Also, to the story about the cops fucking with him in Chicago, he talked about it at Skatercon with Bill Danforth, who was obviously in his cups that day. It's a lot funnier in this retelling at 19:20.