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

J johntiki Member MD Joined: Mar 31, 2002 Posts: 1528	J johntiki Posted posted on Fri, Sep 10, 2004 5:35 PM Discussion of ramps got me to thinking of all the 1/2 pipes I rode back in the day. I rode all the backyard wooden ramps at the time but I have special memories of Mount Trashmore in VA Beach, the 1/2 pipe in Ocean City MD and Hell Ramp right next to the Chesapeake Bay in Middle River. It was a giant steel 1/2 pipe that was scary as hell -I even remember Bucky Lasek skating there before he became a superstar and moved to California. They had the coolest logo - Hell Ramp - Steel Workers Union Local 666. Chongolio - Mellow Cat was in this film I found on video in the mid-80's - "Skateboard Madness" It was a strange movie - Mellow Cat was a skateboard photographer who needed to get some good shots or else he'd be fired - he gets hooked up with Stacy Peralta and a bunch of other guys and they travel all over the place skating some unreal extinct concrete skateparks! There was also some weird ass rollerskating/roller disco video thrown in - a Surf Punks video - narration by Phil Hartman and some pretty cool claymation segments but what always stood out for me was this sequence from the "Turning Point Ramp." A large inverted clear plexiglass tube where skaters could defy gravity and even do what appeared to be complete loops - unreal! Anyway...who the hell was Mellow Cat?

Discussion of ramps got me to thinking of all the 1/2 pipes I rode back in the day. I rode all the backyard wooden ramps at the time but I have special memories of Mount Trashmore in VA Beach, the 1/2 pipe in Ocean City MD and Hell Ramp right next to the Chesapeake Bay in Middle River. It was a giant steel 1/2 pipe that was scary as hell -I even remember Bucky Lasek skating there before he became a superstar and moved to California. They had the coolest logo - Hell Ramp - Steel Workers Union Local 666.

Chongolio - Mellow Cat was in this film I found on video in the mid-80's - "Skateboard Madness" It was a strange movie - Mellow Cat was a skateboard photographer who needed to get some good shots or else he'd be fired - he gets hooked up with Stacy Peralta and a bunch of other guys and they travel all over the place skating some unreal extinct concrete skateparks! There was also some weird ass rollerskating/roller disco video thrown in - a Surf Punks video - narration by Phil Hartman and some pretty cool claymation segments but what always stood out for me was this sequence from the "Turning Point Ramp." A large inverted clear plexiglass tube where skaters could defy gravity and even do what appeared to be complete loops - unreal!

Anyway...who the hell was Mellow Cat?

Post #113674 by johntiki on Fri, Sep 10, 2004 5:35 PM