Skateboarding...the good ol' days! - Beyond Tiki

J johntiki Member MD Joined: Mar 31, 2002 Posts: 1528	J johntiki Posted posted on Thu, Sep 9, 2004 8:48 PM Turbogod - the Edgewood bowl was one of my favorite spots! I also had a friend break a wrist there, and another broke his ankle - the conditions at the place were scary! The snake run was covered in cracks large enough to catch a wheel, the one frontside snake run was so steep and fractured I avoided it at all costs. Remember how the main bowl was 1/2 full with stagnant nasty rain water - I saw many a rider take a spill into the slime! I was even there when someone had the bright idea to dredge the bottom out and recovered a nearly new Sims Kevin Staab that someone must have lost and decided not to go in after! It was a sad day when those bastards that owned the adjoining junkyard decided they'd had enough of the kids having fun at the abandoned skatepark and bulldozed the place. I have a friend who still keeps a giant chunk of the bowl in the corner of his garage... The Bones Brigade tours were the coolest - I was working for a skateboard shop (Reach for the Beach) that sponsored the event at Security Square Mall in 87(?)! I even got a chance to ride their portable mini-ramp - alongside Tony Hawk, Tommy Guerrero and Lance Mountain...well actually they were done skating and were packing up to leave but it was my brush with greatness! Who could forget this timeless ad? JohnTiki Aloha from the enchanted Pi Yi Grotto in exotic Bel Air Maryland! [ Edited by: johntiki on 2004-09-09 20:53 ]

Turbogod - the Edgewood bowl was one of my favorite spots! I also had a friend break a wrist there, and another broke his ankle - the conditions at the place were scary! The snake run was covered in cracks large enough to catch a wheel, the one frontside snake run was so steep and fractured I avoided it at all costs. Remember how the main bowl was 1/2 full with stagnant nasty rain water - I saw many a rider take a spill into the slime! I was even there when someone had the bright idea to dredge the bottom out and recovered a nearly new Sims Kevin Staab that someone must have lost and decided not to go in after! It was a sad day when those bastards that owned the adjoining junkyard decided they'd had enough of the kids having fun at the abandoned skatepark and bulldozed the place. I have a friend who still keeps a giant chunk of the bowl in the corner of his garage...

The Bones Brigade tours were the coolest - I was working for a skateboard shop (Reach for the Beach) that sponsored the event at Security Square Mall in 87(?)! I even got a chance to ride their portable mini-ramp - alongside Tony Hawk, Tommy Guerrero and Lance Mountain...well actually they were done skating and were packing up to leave but it was my brush with greatness!

Who could forget this timeless ad?

JohnTiki

Aloha from the enchanted Pi Yi Grotto in exotic Bel Air Maryland!

[ Edited by: johntiki on 2004-09-09 20:53 ]

Post #113464 by johntiki on Thu, Sep 9, 2004 8:48 PM