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| Eggman-stepford13 |
 Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 1:48 am |
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This whole Carlsbad Skateboard park has got me thinking.I still have dreams about all those abandoned skateparks that were left in the mid/late 80's.I hopped the fence and skated at Reseda when only those 2 pools were open.Ah,those long runs.....Staring through the fence at Skatepark Paramount,wanting to hit that snake run one more time(now a industrial park/Cop station) I can still see the tombstone on the half pipe wall between the wall next to the church.I think it would be a shame to let Carlsbad get broken up.New parks are cool,don't get me wrong.This place has a soul though.I'm not religous at all,but this could be a "Mecca" for alot of people.Kona for the east,Carlsbad for the west.I'd pay $20 for a session there,no problem.If they smash it,maybe I'd build a replica,and steal features from all the parks I rode at,and build an old folks skatepark.25 years from now,we might need it.Still get a rush,even with a fake hip........  |
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| dangersticks |
| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 1:58 am |
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| Eggman-stepford13 |
| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 12:33 pm |
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Oh,your fucking kidding!!!!!!!!!!!
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| slob-air |
| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 2:27 pm |
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You want to ride a '70s style park, hop a plane to Vancouver -- Seylynn was built in '76 and it's awesome! These shots are taken in the fall/winter so it looks cruddy, but it's just beautiful in the summer.
Then you can hit Bonsor and Hastings for a newschool style
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| Eggman-stepford13 |
| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 2:35 pm |
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| LanceM |
| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 2:54 pm |
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| Sweet pics, I like the sunbursts and lense flairs, they give a period feel. Those parks look really fun. |
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| Gusto |
| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 2:56 pm |
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| that snake run looks liek a ton of fun. |
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| sk8hockey |
| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 3:44 pm |
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I skated both Hastings & Seylynn last time up for a Canucks game. Hastings was def. a NW style park that I'm more used to but Seylynn was just an awesome time & my wheels didn't even leave the ground.
Whiterock was the one I was disapointed with. Maybe eating complete shite didn't help much, lol. |
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| K-Beam |
| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:21 pm |
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@Eggman,
I'm with you man.
I'd love to find an old abandoned park with some mellow runs.
Going vert at Glendale just aint in the cards for my old ass.  |
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| altomic |
| Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 6:41 pm |
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in the melbourne suburb of waverley there used to be a 10 foot keyhole that I skated a few times in the early 90's. I went back there 2003 and it was gone.
I asked these passing high school kids what happened to it and they looked at me like I was nuts. "what skatebowl???, there ain't never been a skatebowl here!"
hallam said that it had been filled in.
it was very cool and very scary to skate.
So I wonder how many parks in the US met this fate of just being covered over, and for future skate archaeologists to "re-discover"
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