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UMASS Amherst Fine Arts Center Reflection Pools
« on: October 04, 2006, 09:08:53 AM »
did anyone on here ever get to skate them? i pretty much grew up skating there then they tore them up and put in parking lots...still skate fine arts everyday but i was just wondering if anyone else had...i like hearing about them, brings back memories
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Re: UMASS Amherst Fine Arts Center Reflection Pools
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2006, 09:51:24 AM »
damn none of you skated them? sucks...it was like a skate mecca almost
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Re: UMASS Amherst Fine Arts Center Reflection Pools
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2006, 12:20:15 PM »
What town?
I hit up a hotel pool 2 days ago, the transition was pretty good in the deep end, but there was no tranny in the shallow end at all. The place was open, and I only hit it for like 4 minutes.
Get out there and skate some pools, now is when they are draining them for the winter,
At least in the midwest
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Re: UMASS Amherst Fine Arts Center Reflection Pools
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2006, 12:23:46 PM »
Quote from: theloniousmonk on October 04, 2006, 12:20:15 PM
What town?
UMASS Amherst is in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Re: UMASS Amherst Fine Arts Center Reflection Pools
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2006, 04:08:02 PM »
They were good times when I hit them, back in '93. They're gone now? Bummer.
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Re: UMASS Amherst Fine Arts Center Reflection Pools
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2006, 07:46:35 PM »
damn, '93...i bet they were so fun back then. and yeah around 2001 they started doing construction and ripped them up, put in a parking lot and left the surrounding ledges...then tore that up and put in grass...then tore that up and now its a shit parking again my friends and i still skate there everday day but it sucks. i miss those things
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Re: UMASS Amherst Fine Arts Center Reflection Pools
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2006, 10:03:00 PM »
I skated them all the time around 1990-93. Jim Gagne and Corey Shaw (Maybe locals remember him) owned the place. Also, there was like an 8 stair that you could do tricks down that was smooth as shit. Last time I went there was maybe 5 years ago and they redid it so now it's like this gnarly tiling. Some heads have still killed the fine arts center rails though: Charlie Wilkins, Jim Gagne, Adam Clark, Anthony Shetler, PJ Ladd, Nate something or other.

Actually, Gagne had a sponsor me tape floating around in 91 that was mostly UMASS and that shit was so much gnarlier than alot of legit videos at the time. He cave maned this heinous triple kinked rail. Just a shot in the dark but has anyone seen that video?
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