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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: SSBS1080CBBSNP on November 19, 2019, 12:55:37 AM
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Post any pics, vids, or stories of spots iconic or not that where destroyed, reappropriated, or maybe just not skated anymore for one reason or another.
One story that sticks out in my mind is traveling really late at night through bumfuck stretches of N.C. to get to this handrail a lot of us had been jonesing to skate. I’m pretty sure it was in Winston-Salem, and will be immediately recognizable to anyone who watched early 00’s videos. Anyways, after driving give or take 3 hours we finally get there from the city we were from last. Super fucking late 2:30/3a.m., but we made it and the city was dead. Parked on the street right under the overpass up there the rail is located. Then, as giddy as a gaggle of goggling school girls we ran up that overpass with boards, lights and cameras in hand only to find that it’s gone. The handrail just wasn’t fucking there. We were all pretty pissed and disorientated for a moment, but then quickly realized we in a new city that was completely dead and then preceded to skate its entirety without hassle until the sun came up. Still a good time.
This is was the rail: (http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15739585811573958578.gif)
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Good idea for a thread.
I would of loved to of gotten the chance to skate a perfect square looking rail like that.
Never went there but the first spot that comes to mind is the med choice gap. Was such a staple of the early 2000's vids- Menikmati, Baker 2g etc and then just disappeared. Anyone know what happened? Demolished?
http://youtu.be/23IdE5CJ0hw
4.56
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(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5MZKVKpvruY/hqdefault.jpg)
Used to be pretty popular to do tricks over these rails. Don't know what happened
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(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-19-2019/8GPEV3.gif)
This ledge used to be so popular... What happened here?
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Iconic Local Denver spot it was a blue bank to bank, anyone who has skated the Denver area knows what I’m talking about. It was next to a Spanish auto shop.
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Carlsbad
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Post any pics, vids, or stories of spots iconic or not that where destroyed, reappropriated, or maybe just not skated anymore for one reason or another.
One story that sticks out in my mind is traveling really late at night through bumfuck stretches of N.C. to get to this handrail a lot of us had been jonesing to skate. I’m pretty sure it was in Winston-Salome, and will be immediately recognizable to anyone who watched early 00’s videos. Anyways, after driving give or take 3 hours we finally get there from the city we were from last. Super fucking late 2:30/3a.m., but we made it and the city was dead. Parked on the street right under the overpass up there the rail is located. Then, as giddy as a gaggle of goggling school girls we ran up that overpass with boards, lights and cameras in hand only to find that it’s gone. The handrail just wasn’t fucking there. We were all pretty pissed and disorientated for a moment, but then quickly realized we in a new city that was completely dead and then preceded to skate its entirety without hassle until the sun came up. Still a good time.
This is was the rail: (http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15739585811573958578.gif)
i thought that rail was at one of the colleges there?
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I was living in Philly in 2012/2013. One day a girl from my hometown was coming to Philly for a show and wanted to meet up, so I told her I would meet her at Love. It's a Saturday and I show up a hour and a half before her so I could skate some and just hang out. Over by the Love sign there was a table set up and a whole bunch of people gathering around. After like 45 minutes it gets to crowded so I sit down on the ledge and start rolling up while I await this girls arrival. A local bum sits down next to me and introduces himself as "Peanut", around this same time I realized the sign they just put at the table says "Philadelphia Transgender March". Peanut is chatting me up telling he how he stays in the park and how he can get me any drug I would need ever, followed by "Damn there's a LOT of FINE ASS women out here today!"... I look at him and ask if he read the sign at the table. He glances over. "What the jawn say?" I tell him and he shoots up to his feet. "I gotta get the fuck outta here before I do something I regret..." We said our goodbyes and I sent him off with the roach of the joint I was smoking. I always wondered what happened to him.
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The three-stair curb at Sants. Went to Barcelona in 2009, really looked forward to skate it only to find it had been demolished only a few weeks/months before... still bummed on that one.
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The three-stair curb at Sants. Went to Barcelona in 2009, really looked forward to skate it only to find it had been demolished only a few weeks/months before... still bummed on that one.
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3y5BvnsmhE4/hqdefault.jpg)
You mean this one?
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I heard china banks is being demolished next year, can anyone confirm?
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Is there any spots at cemetery’s ?
Would that be considered a dead spot ?
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The Barcelona Stage Drop (I think that's what it was called). I'm pretty sure it was demolished, but I always thought it looked fun.
Edit: This thing:
(https://www.thrashermagazine.com/images/image/Features/2018/Arto_SOTY/SARRI_5_750px.gif)
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The Barcelona Stage Drop (I think that's what it was called). I'm pretty sure it was demolished, but I always thought it looked fun.
Edit: This thing:
(https://www.thrashermagazine.com/images/image/Features/2018/Arto_SOTY/SARRI_5_750px.gif)
this is probably wrong .. but as kids we thought this spot was the origin of the term euro gap
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(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-19-2019/8GPEV3.gif)
This ledge used to be so popular... What happened here?
people still skate it
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The Barcelona Stage Drop (I think that's what it was called). I'm pretty sure it was demolished, but I always thought it looked fun.
Edit: This thing:
(https://www.thrashermagazine.com/images/image/Features/2018/Arto_SOTY/SARRI_5_750px.gif)
in europe, at least in my area, everybody called "euro gaps" always a "london gap"
on topic: this miniramp shaped thing in barcelona comes to my mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bo6Ckw2pqM
2:40 in here
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The Barcelona Stage Drop (I think that's what it was called). I'm pretty sure it was demolished, but I always thought it looked fun.
Edit: This thing:
(https://www.thrashermagazine.com/images/image/Features/2018/Arto_SOTY/SARRI_5_750px.gif)
look up rodney clarke, not sure what the exact spot is but have it on good authority he was the "first?"
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Post any pics, vids, or stories of spots iconic or not that where destroyed, reappropriated, or maybe just not skated anymore for one reason or another.
One story that sticks out in my mind is traveling really late at night through bumfuck stretches of N.C. to get to this handrail a lot of us had been jonesing to skate. I’m pretty sure it was in Winston-Salem, and will be immediately recognizable to anyone who watched early 00’s videos. Anyways, after driving give or take 3 hours we finally get there from the city we were from last. Super fucking late 2:30/3a.m., but we made it and the city was dead. Parked on the street right under the overpass up there the rail is located. Then, as giddy as a gaggle of goggling school girls we ran up that overpass with boards, lights and cameras in hand only to find that it’s gone. The handrail just wasn’t fucking there. We were all pretty pissed and disorientated for a moment, but then quickly realized we in a new city that was completely dead and then preceded to skate its entirety without hassle until the sun came up. Still a good time.
This is was the rail: (http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15739585811573958578.gif)
i thought that rail was at one of the colleges there?
It could’ve been a college. Definitely on a bridge overpass though. The only footage I can find of it specifically online is this clip:
https://youtu.be/u8BXIZB0Fqo
I remember there being like restaurants and shit on the side where the rail should have been, but on the other side there was big buildings that may have been apart of a college. There was also a double or triple set with similar rails still there on that side. I fucked around on the first rail a bit immediately jumping off after landing, but always wonder anyone messed with that side on a serious level.
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Is there any spots at cemetery’s ?
Would that be considered a dead spot ?
In Copenhagen there is Assistens Kirkegården (The Assistants Cemetery). There is this sculpture with a surrounding platform/granite surface, that has been skated quite a lot. I loved the spot when I first saw it in videos, but I got quite offended when I heard it was at a cemetery, even though I'm not religious, I do believe that you should respect where bodies rest. Not for the dead, but the ones left behind.
Living in Copenhagen for a couple of month some years back, I experienced that this place is just as much a public park, as it's a cemetery. People have picnics there, drink, some sunbathe topless and people bring dates. It's quite quirky, but I've got to say that the place has got a vibe to it, and you don't really think of it as a cemetery. Relatives do complain though, which is understandable.
The ground holds some famous, historical, Danish personas. Niels Bohr (physicist), Søren Kierkegaard (philosopher) and H.C. Andernsen (writer) are the ones who might be known beyond the Danish border. Besides that, there's is lot's of people who have streets and buildings named after them around the country, and lots of private people.
It's difficult for me really to put in to words what I think of the use of The Assistants Cemetery, but I can't say that I don't think the spot is cool.
It has mostly been skated as the flat gap you can see left of the sculpture.
(https://www.sla.dk/files/1914/1639/9612/xsmall_megaron_2_udbygget.jpg)
More photos:
https://www.sla.dk/dk/projects/etfelt/
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Is there any spots at cemetery’s ?
Would that be considered a dead spot ?
The deadest of spots. Heard longboarders catch a bad wrap cruising the mourning dead’s pathed walk ways sometimes. Kevin Baekkel should do a cemetery tour. If churches got spots ya know there’s gotta be cemeteries with them out there too.
^thats’s a crazy looking graveyard plaza that’d be very hard to not want to skate. it’s probably always a bad idea to skate somebody’s grave and of course don’t be trickin in front of people mourning. Other than that skate with the dead. Go at night. Get spooky.
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Truely Dead spots
Spectrum rails
MSG
Civic Center Rail
Bill Graham auditorium Hubba
I did take a kicker and a flat bar on tour and every venue that was paved, kids would come look where I set up to skate together.
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Bridge Rail!
Also RIP this spot the next town over:
(https://i.imgur.com/lEU30Np.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNC0aDyR-6w
6:33
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my favorite curb growing up got a papa johns built on top of it.
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Other NC mugs might also remember this dream of a spot:
(https://i.imgur.com/HRxPky3.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3f3BQLpnwU
1:14
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^damn! Always thought that was a concrete park from the yeah right clip. Spot looks so sick.
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(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-19-2019/8GPEV3.gif)
This ledge used to be so popular... What happened here?
people still skate it
I saw a clip on this within the last week, so it’s deff still there
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(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-19-2019/8GPEV3.gif)
This ledge used to be so popular... What happened here?
people still skate it
I saw a clip on this within the last week, so it’s deff still there
https://youtu.be/2QnfteDe3XE?t=601
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(http://media.phillyvoice.com/media/images/012015_LovePark_Carroll.fad0e764.fill-735x490.jpg)
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the seventh fret on the g string of my p-bass >:(
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That rail was in downtown Winston Salem. Indeed on an overpass pedestrian bridge. It was great.
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Is there any spots at cemetery’s ?
Would that be considered a dead spot ?
Living in Copenhagen for a couple of month some years back, I experienced that this place is just as much a public park, as it's a cemetery. People have picnics there, drink, some sunbathe topless and people bring dates. It's quite quirky, but I've got to say that the place has got a vibe to it, and you don't really think of it as a cemetery. Relatives do complain though, which is understandable.
The ground holds some famous, historical, Danish personas. Niels Bohr (physicist), Søren Kierkegaard (philosopher) and H.C. Andernsen (writer) are the ones who might be known beyond the Danish border. Besides that, there's is lot's of people who have streets and buildings named after them around the country, and lots of private people.
It's difficult for me really to put in to words what I think of the use of The Assistants Cemetery, but I can't say that I don't think the spot is cool.
It has mostly been skated as the flat gap you can see left of the sculpture.
(https://www.sla.dk/files/1914/1639/9612/xsmall_megaron_2_udbygget.jpg)
More photos:
https://www.sla.dk/dk/projects/etfelt/
I think cemeteries might be one of the only things I would not skate on principle. We have a huge one here literally called, The National Cemetery." So big and marble everything for days. I run through it sometimes and think about how good it would be to skate, but I would not want to leave mark on someone's memorial site.
Where I grew up our main spot was a monument to some war (A minor one) in a park. Every now and then we'd get a pissed off veteran yelling at us about being disrespectful. Didn't really feel bad about that one.
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This ledge used to be so popular... What happened here?
people still skate it
I saw a clip on this within the last week, so it’s deff still there
https://youtu.be/2QnfteDe3XE?t=601
It's because it's in Canada.
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the seventh fret on the g string of my p-bass >:(
Gotta get that baby set up.
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(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-19-2019/8GPEV3.gif)
This ledge used to be so popular... What happened here?
people still skate it
I saw a clip on this within the last week, so it’s deff still there
https://youtu.be/2QnfteDe3XE?t=601
It's because it's in Canada.
I believe the spot has been called "New Spot" for decades
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Iconic Local Denver spot it was a blue bank to bank, anyone who has skated the Denver area knows what I’m talking about. It was next to a Spanish auto shop.
That spot was resurrected a couple years ago by the crisis dudes. It was covered in rough concrete for a good 5 to 10 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_p0t5VVd0I
at the beginning of the video.
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Bank to Curb was one of my favorite spots of all time. that was the first one that came to mind for me that I had actually gotten tricks on. lots of people did way better stuff than i did LOL
5:15 , but you can see it on the thumbnail for the clip. There is all grass now where the runway is. I might try to hit it on snowskate somehow heh
https://youtu.be/5rsEmMgdfNU
RIP
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The thumb nail for gx roll up is gone, Matt Finley(?) back lipped into the security guard.
http://youtu.be/FxDVObzf5y0
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(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5MZKVKpvruY/hqdefault.jpg)
Used to be pretty popular to do tricks over these rails. Don't know what happened
i went there a couple of years back and there were poles out in on the landing to make it unskateable. it was somewhere by san bernardino (gross)
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https://www.instagram.com/p/B4bC4xlFrOg/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/B4bC4xlFrOg/)
Not entirely sure how to make the post available on this format, but Ben Degros skates it in this post.
Apparently in BC.
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(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-19-2019/8GPEV3.gif)
This ledge used to be so popular... What happened here?
people still skate it
I saw a clip on this within the last week, so it’s deff still there
https://youtu.be/2QnfteDe3XE?t=601
It's because it's in Canada.
I believe the spot has been called "New Spot" for decades
Nope. This spot is called Brighouse (Richmond, BC). New Spot is the famous walkway between two towers in downtown Vancouver that was hit tons in the early 90's. Tony Ferguson had lots of lines, as did everyone on girl pretty much. The two sets of stairs at the end still get hit all the time by Spencer Hamilton.
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This ledge used to be so popular... What happened here?
people still skate it
I saw a clip on this within the last week, so it’s deff still there
https://youtu.be/2QnfteDe3XE?t=601
It's because it's in Canada.
I believe the spot has been called "New Spot" for decades
Nope. This spot is called Brighouse (Richmond, BC). New Spot is the famous walkway between two towers in downtown Vancouver that was hit tons in the early 90's. Tony Ferguson had lots of lines, as did everyone on girl pretty much. The two sets of stairs at the end still get hit all the time by Spencer Hamilton.
oh so this isnt evne in vancouver... makes sense. it looks way less urban.
is it this spot ???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_mpMZaIBeo
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Some recent ones in NY
max palmer diy couple weeks ago
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EI9YYlfXUAcOhOi?format=jpg&name=large)
Wall rail in battery park, 2016 (https://quartersnacks.com/2016/04/r-i-p-bpc-wall-rail/)
(https://quartersnacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/battery-park-rip.jpg)
Other fountain at flushing, last month (https://quartersnacks.com/2019/10/comings-goings-skate-spot-edition/#more-45869)
(https://quartersnacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_0296.jpg)
Rector street bench, last month (https://quartersnacks.com/2019/10/r-i-p-rector-street-bench-a-summer-trip-to-new-york-clip-staple/)
(https://quartersnacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/rip-rector-main.jpg)
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I moved out of philly 20 years ago now, but is the bank to bank gap at annenburg still there? Penn campus.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bIrLZBH87g yes this is it... 56 seconds i remmember now. its got such a stupid name its hard to remmeber lol like i will always remember "Burnt Cat" lol
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I moved out of philly 20 years ago now, but is the bank to bank gap at annenburg still there? Penn campus.
any clips?
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Hell yeah bridge rail! That was my first boardslide
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I moved out of philly 20 years ago now, but is the bank to bank gap at annenburg still there? Penn campus.
any clips?
at :49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MtU6RAB0Fs
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^damn! Always thought that was a concrete park from the yeah right clip. Spot looks so sick.
The spot/quarter pipe in MJ's Yeah Right part was at the old Belconnen skatepark (I think) which was demolished.
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Bank to Curb was one of my favorite spots of all time. that was the first one that came to mind for me that I had actually gotten tricks on. lots of people did way better stuff than i did LOL
5:15 , but you can see it on the thumbnail for the clip. There is all grass now where the runway is. I might try to hit it on snowskate somehow heh
https://youtu.be/5rsEmMgdfNU
RIP
https://vimeo.com/362919500 (https://vimeo.com/362919500)
Skydome banks are a classic. I had a cool experience filming a trick there (^ 34:06) many years ago. I just landed my trick, and as I rolled away a van that was driving by started honking and the occupants gave me some shouted props out of the windows. About a minute later, as I was sitting down and reviewing the footage, Kris Markovich rolled up to me (it was the blind team in the van) and gave me a really nice compliment about my trick. I think he filmed a line with a bluntslide off the end the same day. I was hyped. I actually did the trick in just a couple tries cause it's a go-to for me, but still felt rad.
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https://youtu.be/8xB6r_pVA9k
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I moved out of philly 20 years ago now, but is the bank to bank gap at annenburg still there? Penn campus.
any clips?
at :49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MtU6RAB0Fs
i think that got torn down when they remodeled that but i could be wrong
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Burger Banks in Costa Mesa. Luckily I was able to skate it before it was demolished.
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https://www.complex.com/sports/2013/08/iconic-skate-spots-that-no-longer-exist/
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^damn! Always thought that was a concrete park from the yeah right clip. Spot looks so sick.
The spot/quarter pipe in MJ's Yeah Right part was at the old Belconnen skatepark (I think) which was demolished.
Definitely not a skatepark, you can see the mall entrance better in Louie/Jerry's clips at 4:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN65yOy-8Qk
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Some recent ones in NY
max palmer diy couple weeks ago
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EI9YYlfXUAcOhOi?format=jpg&name=large)
Wall rail in battery park, 2016 (https://quartersnacks.com/2016/04/r-i-p-bpc-wall-rail/)
(https://quartersnacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/battery-park-rip.jpg)
Other fountain at flushing, last month (https://quartersnacks.com/2019/10/comings-goings-skate-spot-edition/#more-45869)
(https://quartersnacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_0296.jpg)
Rector street bench, last month (https://quartersnacks.com/2019/10/r-i-p-rector-street-bench-a-summer-trip-to-new-york-clip-staple/)
(https://quartersnacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/rip-rector-main.jpg)
(https://i.ibb.co/C8VDJ4q/CDE42244-9-FD6-4-B5-D-8-EEF-C311841-C6971.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZXc7Hv3)
City killed this in the past year too. Tyshawn and Suciu had the last clips in big parts. I filmed a dumb clip on it a couple days before they hacked chunks out of all the ledges. Looks way worse now than when it was just a buttery ledge smh.
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I was living in Philly in 2012/2013. One day a girl from my hometown was coming to Philly for a show and wanted to meet up, so I told her I would meet her at Love. It's a Saturday and I show up a hour and a half before her so I could skate some and just hang out. Over by the Love sign there was a table set up and a whole bunch of people gathering around. After like 45 minutes it gets to crowded so I sit down on the ledge and start rolling up while I await this girls arrival. A local bum sits down next to me and introduces himself as "Peanut", around this same time I realized the sign they just put at the table says "Philadelphia Transgender March". Peanut is chatting me up telling he how he stays in the park and how he can get me any drug I would need ever, followed by "Damn there's a LOT of FINE ASS women out here today!"... I look at him and ask if he read the sign at the table. He glances over. "What the jawn say?" I tell him and he shoots up to his feet. "I gotta get the fuck outta here before I do something I regret..." We said our goodbyes and I sent him off with the roach of the joint I was smoking. I always wondered what happened to him.
This is a real stretch but was peanut maybe mid 40s or 50s, tallish, skinnier, black, and looked similar to bubbles in the wire?
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Other NC mugs might also remember this dream of a spot:
(https://i.imgur.com/HRxPky3.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3f3BQLpnwU
1:14
Oh man. Any excuse to watch that part. First two clips are dead spots also. Though Vault, (the yellow bank) could be resurrected if relocated from where it stands now.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BnKCzOjgtPz/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
It's a shame that the whole area is fenced of now. Google maps still has it listed as "Brooklyn Banks Skatepark"
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(https://i.ibb.co/C8VDJ4q/CDE42244-9-FD6-4-B5-D-8-EEF-C311841-C6971.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZXc7Hv3)
City killed this in the past year too. Tyshawn and Suciu had the last clips in big parts. I filmed a dumb clip on it a couple days before they hacked chunks out of all the ledges. Looks way worse now than when it was just a buttery ledge smh.
I wrote about the community board meetings that led to this knobbing in a class next semester, I'll look for a link to the meeting PDFs sometime soon. Nearby residents had been trying for years to get it done, and also one of the motivations among community board members for the new Riverside Park they just started on on was to get people to stop skating here and at columbus circle
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Ramona
1:39
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ror1T2KHk6M
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Iconic Local Denver spot it was a blue bank to bank, anyone who has skated the Denver area knows what I’m talking about. It was next to a Spanish auto shop.
place near blast-o-mat? I'm not from Denver but I remember skating a spot near the venue that was sort of like that I think?
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I think cemeteries might be one of the only things I would not skate on principle. We have a huge one here literally called, The National Cemetery." So big and marble everything for days. I run through it sometimes and think about how good it would be to skate, but I would not want to leave mark on someone's memorial site.
Where I grew up our main spot was a monument to some war (A minor one) in a park. Every now and then we'd get a pissed off veteran yelling at us about being disrespectful. Didn't really feel bad about that one.
I’d feel like an asshole skating somebody’s death/sacrifice monument. However, any non-descript handrails, ledges, curbs and benches within a sacred vicinity are fair game in the Lord’s eye I believe. I myself and others I know have in fact skated historical churches surrounded by historical graveyards; and I tell ya... I do not think a single one of us has been haunted to this day. I think it’s possible to respectively shred with the dead.
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(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4OE2LlxxWrc/S7VvY9-o6VI/AAAAAAAAH7c/8DYnTNKHrvQ/s1600/neilsadlandschrome.jpg)
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(https://s2.dmcdn.net/v/ARTb71RmURFZxDMPK/x1080)
https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/hubba+hideout
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/979bd0147dd4cfadbc6fcfd1220fa54b/tumblr_nbimls0omD1qifgfuo1_500.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdjX4PA0k0U
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I already love this thread!
The next spot im thinking of is this weird halfpipe looking thing... I dont know if it is in brazil or Barca, but I used to see many clips of it back in the days:
(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-20-2019/5F2ZZ7.gif)
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Along with the destruction of Love came the swift decimation of the apocalyptic looking William Penn High. The school was clearly fucked and was hard to believe to be operational, but damn did it contain some gems. Most notably the 3 Block portion.
Here’s The Current 2019 SOTY runner up holding it down in Mosaic:
(http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15742319381574231920.gif)
Followed by Kalis in The DC Video:
(http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15742325961574232585.gif)
There were other spots there too. A flat rail roller bladders apparently dominated. I know I’ve seen it skated in videos but am fogging. There was a giant (18,19,20?) stair ledge I can’t remember who did what down it when. Anybody know what I’m blanking on? I think there may have even been another longer higher flat rail there too. That place transported you somewhere else when crawling through the fence. Pretty sure it’s all been transformed into a soccer field for Temple now.
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(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-19-2019/8GPEV3.gif)
This ledge used to be so popular... What happened here?
I tried skating this in richmond, i use to still see people showing up to sesh it
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^damn! Always thought that was a concrete park from the yeah right clip. Spot looks so sick.
The spot/quarter pipe in MJ's Yeah Right part was at the old Belconnen skatepark (I think) which was demolished.
Definitely not a skatepark, you can see the mall entrance better in Louie/Jerry's clips at 4:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN65yOy-8Qk
That entire video part holds up so well; Jerry styling on every trick, Louie with his unorthodox approach to every spot, both of them having an absolute blast all set to the sounds of New Order.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEZsU404eNk
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Along with the destruction of Love came the swift decimation of the apocalyptic looking William Penn High. The school was clearly fucked and was hard to believe to be operational, but damn did it contain some gems. Most notably the 3 Block portion.
Here’s The Current 2019 SOTY runner up holding it down in Mosaic:
(http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15742319381574231920.gif)
Followed by Kalis in The DC Video:
(http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15742325961574232585.gif)
There were other spots there too. A flat rail roller bladders apparently dominated. I know I’ve seen it skated in videos but am fogging. There was a giant (18,19,20?) stair ledge I can’t remember who did what down it when. Anybody know what I’m blanking on? I think there may have even been another longer higher flat rail there too. That place transported you somewhere else when crawling through the fence. Pretty sure it’s all been transformed into a soccer field for Temple now.
Eli Reed switch lipslide
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1418/4948/products/TSM_073_600x.jpg?v=1507672193)
2:43
http://youtu.be/ne8GUU8Jge4?t=163 (http://youtu.be/ne8GUU8Jge4?t=163)
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Iconic Local Denver spot it was a blue bank to bank, anyone who has skated the Denver area knows what I’m talking about. It was next to a Spanish auto shop.
place near blast-o-mat? I'm not from Denver but I remember skating a spot near the venue that was sort of like that I think?
Holy shit! Yeah that’s the place....
They tore it out after 2009. I use to stay at panther country with Wiley for a bit.
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Along with the destruction of Love came the swift decimation of the apocalyptic looking William Penn High. The school was clearly fucked and was hard to believe to be operational, but damn did it contain some gems. Most notably the 3 Block portion.
Here’s The Current 2019 SOTY runner up holding it down in Mosaic:
(http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15742319381574231920.gif)
Followed by Kalis in The DC Video:
(http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15742325961574232585.gif)
There were other spots there too. A flat rail roller bladders apparently dominated. I know I’ve seen it skated in videos but am fogging. There was a giant (18,19,20?) stair ledge I can’t remember who did what down it when. Anybody know what I’m blanking on? I think there may have even been another longer higher flat rail there too. That place transported you somewhere else when crawling through the fence. Pretty sure it’s all been transformed into a soccer field for Temple now.
Eli Reed switch lipslide
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1418/4948/products/TSM_073_600x.jpg?v=1507672193)
2:43
http://youtu.be/ne8GUU8Jge4?t=163 (http://youtu.be/ne8GUU8Jge4?t=163)
I always wanted to try that huge rail/hubba thing because it wasn’t super high and the grass made it less intimidating although I’d probably get broke off.
I scoped it out while working a job next door but never skated it or the 3 block.
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Along with the destruction of Love came the swift decimation of the apocalyptic looking William Penn High. The school was clearly fucked and was hard to believe to be operational, but damn did it contain some gems. Most notably the 3 Block portion.
Here’s The Current 2019 SOTY runner up holding it down in Mosaic:
(http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15742319381574231920.gif)
Followed by Kalis in The DC Video:
(http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15742325961574232585.gif)
There were other spots there too. A flat rail roller bladders apparently dominated. I know I’ve seen it skated in videos but am fogging. There was a giant (18,19,20?) stair ledge I can’t remember who did what down it when. Anybody know what I’m blanking on? I think there may have even been another longer higher flat rail there too. That place transported you somewhere else when crawling through the fence. Pretty sure it’s all been transformed into a soccer field for Temple now.
Eli Reed switch lipslide
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1418/4948/products/TSM_073_600x.jpg?v=1507672193)
2:43
http://youtu.be/ne8GUU8Jge4?t=163 (http://youtu.be/ne8GUU8Jge4?t=163)
Yo, thank you! I’ve been buggin trying to track down what went down at the school. I remember seeing it in videos and mags a lot coming up but the who, when and where has become hazy. That Eli switch lip cover is a beauty.
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Venice pits
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Brooklyn banks
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The rail that Myles switch back 180nosegrinds at 2:49 is at the building you thought was a college beside bridge rail.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zVBSjJHBPk
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I miss the Durham Courthouse so much
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I already love this thread!
The next spot im thinking of is this weird halfpipe looking thing... I dont know if it is in brazil or Barca, but I used to see many clips of it back in the days:
(https://i.makeagif.com/media/11-20-2019/5F2ZZ7.gif)
It was in Barcelona and if I remember correctly it was removed due to a renovation of the area.
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havent seen anything at Le Dome in ages, is that spot still kicking?
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Brooklyn banks
What actually happened to these?
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What actually happened to these?
pretty sure that has been under reno for TiME dude. probalby gonna be osmething completley different going in there. i have no idea though never been there just going by what i read years ago.
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What actually happened to these?
pretty sure that has been under reno for TiME dude. probalby gonna be osmething completley different going in there. i have no idea though never been there just going by what i read years ago.
The original small banks with the bump over wall and 9 stair were slightly demolished and fenced off but the space still exists. Been unskateable for over a decade.
The bigger banks were turned into a “skatepark” with wood ramps and stuff but the city still fenced off the area for about a decade. Now it is still fenced off and has 24 hr security since people started cutting or hopping fence last few summers. I squeezed through the fence and skated it about 2 years ago and the bricks are so chunked up and soggy it’s almost unskateable but still fun.
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Yea like 2 years ago holes were cut into the fence at Brooklyn Banks and for like 6 months for some reason cops let us skate mostly unbothered and there was a short banks renaissance, which is where all the recent footy has come from. Been a no go again for some time. Can we try that again? Someone else test it I’m too old to get arrested.
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I miss the Durham Courthouse so much
Only skated it twice, but goddamn, that place ruled.
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havent seen anything at Le Dome in ages, is that spot still kicking?
yes
the ground is now brand new for the most part. Still a go to spot
Not that long ago, Fazliov did FS Blunt down the huge kinked hubba.
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I saw that the courthouse steps in Richmond have basically had the largest skate stoppers ever installed earlier this fall. You've probably seen them if you follow bustcrew or any of those guys on instagram. It's a shame because it was a really fun spot for pretty much anyone across all skill levels.
(https://i.imgur.com/KVJksLgl.jpg)
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DVC knobbed
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Along with the destruction of Love came the swift decimation of the apocalyptic looking William Penn High. The school was clearly fucked and was hard to believe to be operational, but damn did it contain some gems. Most notably the 3 Block portion.
Here’s The Current 2019 SOTY runner up holding it down in Mosaic:
(http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15742319381574231920.gif)
Followed by Kalis in The DC Video:
(http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15742325961574232585.gif)
There were other spots there too. A flat rail roller bladders apparently dominated. I know I’ve seen it skated in videos but am fogging. There was a giant (18,19,20?) stair ledge I can’t remember who did what down it when. Anybody know what I’m blanking on? I think there may have even been another longer higher flat rail there too. That place transported you somewhere else when crawling through the fence. Pretty sure it’s all been transformed into a soccer field for Temple now.
Eli Reed switch lipslide
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1418/4948/products/TSM_073_600x.jpg?v=1507672193)
2:43
http://youtu.be/ne8GUU8Jge4?t=163 (http://youtu.be/ne8GUU8Jge4?t=163)
Yo, thank you! I’ve been buggin trying to track down what went down at the school. I remember seeing it in videos and mags a lot coming up but the who, when and where has become hazy. That Eli switch lip cover is a beauty.
This spot was so fun, I drove by when they were ripping it down and was so sad. Chris Cole front boarded that long ass hubba. There was a bum that lived at the top of the stairs you would grind before tricking the 3 block. He was actually pretty chill.
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Bummed I never got to skate this even though I've lived in Portland my whole life and this is only a 90 minute flight away
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Along with the destruction of Love came the swift decimation of the apocalyptic looking William Penn High. The school was clearly fucked and was hard to believe to be operational, but damn did it contain some gems. Most notably the 3 Block portion.
Here’s The Current 2019 SOTY runner up holding it down in Mosaic:
(http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15742319381574231920.gif)
Followed by Kalis in The DC Video:
(http://gifsstore.com/public/upload/gifs/15742325961574232585.gif)
There were other spots there too. A flat rail roller bladders apparently dominated. I know I’ve seen it skated in videos but am fogging. There was a giant (18,19,20?) stair ledge I can’t remember who did what down it when. Anybody know what I’m blanking on? I think there may have even been another longer higher flat rail there too. That place transported you somewhere else when crawling through the fence. Pretty sure it’s all been transformed into a soccer field for Temple now.
Eli Reed switch lipslide
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1418/4948/products/TSM_073_600x.jpg?v=1507672193)
2:43
http://youtu.be/ne8GUU8Jge4?t=163 (http://youtu.be/ne8GUU8Jge4?t=163)
Yo, thank you! I’ve been buggin trying to track down what went down at the school. I remember seeing it in videos and mags a lot coming up but the who, when and where has become hazy. That Eli switch lip cover is a beauty.
The first time I went there, many years ago, I accidentally woke up a guy set up there while skating. Got to admit he startled the fuck outta me because I had no idea he was there and wasn’t sure how he was going to react. We locked eyes for a moment then he waved his hand, rolled over, and went back to sleep. I don’t know if it was the strong guy on the couch response he gave, but dude looked like Steven Wright from the glimpse I got of him. Never saw him again after that, but there was always a set up at the top. I don’t know if it’s the same guy you’re talking about but respect if he held that corner all those years. Really appreciated him not throwing shit at me.