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Turning Point ramp
On 6/30/2002 Glen wrote in from (216.102.nnn.nnn)

I don't have any pictures but if you get the Skateboard Madness video, it has a bunch of footage of Kent and others skating it. I got to skate it when it lived at Marina Skatepark for a while. It was interesting but not anything I miss today. There was basically one line in it, the same one everyone in Skateboard Madness skates. Drop in, big carve fs or bs, kickturn, kickturn, repeat until dizzy.

 
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" '70's car "
On 6/28/2002 Mark wrote in from (199.46.nnn.nnn)

that car behind the Hangar Bowl looks like a 1967 Impala

just in case anyone cares

Mark Colden
1966 Impala owner

 
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Hanger Bowl
On 6/27/2002 Graham Sims wrote in from (66.20.nnn.nnn)

The Haloween event is usually just a big party out there. In years past Pros have showed up to tear the place up. I highly suggest you go, if you have been allowed to know where the bowl is :) I think Burnquist was here a few years back, not sure. Hank rules :)

 
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Turning Point Ramp
On 6/27/2002 radical T wrote in from (63.57.nnn.nnn)

Kent Senatore was a rider of the ramp. He lives in Hawaii and shapes surfboards (Jay Adams rides his shapes) and he has gotten back into sk8n again. He's riding bowls and all. Look for him to break out again with all of this 70's resurgence. Remember him from the BBC's original Dogtown documentary "Skateboard Kings"?

 
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Wally Hollyday in the house
On 6/27/2002 bob swartz wrote in from (68.50.nnn.nnn)

After 2 years of pushing and planning Da Man Wally is on site and broke ground yesterday here in Charles County Maryland.
It is going to be fun watching the progress...... 6 weeks and some settling time for the skate surface and all hell breaks loose around here. We just have to remeber to leave room for the kids. LOL

Bob

 
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Turning point!
On 6/27/2002 Chuck wrote in from (204.30.nnn.nnn)

I rode it back in the, what 70's? Made me dizzy for days going around the capsule end. It lived at Solid Surf in Fort Lauderdale for quite awhile, after its appearance at the Van, Surf, and Skateboard Expo at the West Palm Beach Auditorium. What a trip that ramp was...don't have any pictures but I might be able to dig through some old Skateboarders to find one if you are really desperate. Who rode that year? Who were the Turning Point "Punkture" riders? Was Hackett one of them?

Hmmm, getting even more bizarre, the year previous at the VS&S Expo, a bunch of pro's came to ride a "human pinball" half pipe. It was some kind of pale blue fiberglass thing, with built-in buttons that would light up and you'd run over them to score points. Thankfully, the pro riders ignored the "intended" use and just ripped the half pipe. Shogo Kubo, Piercy (!), gosh I can't remember who else was there. Maybe Folmer was riding for Sims East by then, or was it the next year? I can't even remember the timeframe, maybe '77 or so? Was it the same year I bought my Fox Pat Love model deck? I've forgotten more than I can remember...

 
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Buena Vista Square
On 6/27/2002 Ben wrote in from (4.41.nnn.nnn)

That sucks about Buena Vista. When I lived in San Jose with Grosso,Ross Goodman,& Tod Prince, we would often go over the hill to skate it. Also attended partys there with all the Santa Cruz, San Fran, & S.j. crews. It was good fun. Hope you succeed in Digging it out of the Grave.

 
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Buena Vista Pool
On 6/27/2002 Ryan M wrote in from (209.239.nnn.nnn)

RIP Buena Vista pool in Watsonville CA near santa cruz, some bros went to skate it this weekend and found it filled in...again. No biggie but this time somebody decided to bury what was described as a shipping container or mobile home in the bowl...anybody got a crane and a backhoe? While Buena has been a bust on and off, it needs to live on- Katen, Roskopp, Losi, Meek, Spidey, Cab once skated there

 
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turning point ramp
On 6/27/2002 66. wrote in from (66.190.nnn.nnn)

looking for pictures

 
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Crazy
On 6/26/2002 Ben wrote in from (4.41.nnn.nnn)

Yeh that's him Scabs. Thanks for the feedback. One late night I was stumbling around and he helped me find my bed. How do I post images here? I read the posting guidelines and looked into the two free servers to link the imges but still couldn't figure it out.

 
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Crazy Joe
On 6/26/2002 scabs wrote in from (66.21.nnn.nnn)

I wasn`t at the Skatopia Ben but maybe this pic will solve the mystery....
BTW...he is reportedly the oldest guy to gring the coping at a ripe old age of 42

 
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Crazy Joe
On 6/26/2002 Ben wrote in from (4.41.nnn.nnn)

Is that the same Crazy Joe that was at the Skatopia event? The guy there was kinda older with Long, wavy black/dark brown hair. I thought he was a skatopia local but he could've been there w/ the South Carolina crew. Also, what city is the hanger Bowl in? Charleston?

 
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Hanger Bowl
On 6/26/2002 Scabs wrote in from (66.21.nnn.nnn)

Crazy Joe gave me a tour of the underbelly of the bowl. Lot`s of odd parts laying around like old bikes and broken skateboards. On the opposite corner of the front office is the back office. Here`s the secret spot where , well, er, secrets are made? I was asked not to photogragh it but I was allowed to take a pic looking out the back door. With old trees growing around this 70`s car, it must`ve been there for over 20 years...


 
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Hanger Bowl
On 6/26/2002 Scabs wrote in from (66.21.nnn.nnn)

Here`s a pic as you enter through the front door into the "front office" which is basically some old couches on a dirt floor under the bowl...

"Front Office"


 
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Fibreflex World Longboard Skateboard Championships
On 6/26/2002 tasos/ILSA wrote in from (63.57.nnn.nnn)

The 2003 champioships will have a bowlriding event at the Hangar Bowl. Go to www.streetrecords.com for more info. Site is under construction, but incase you like to plan early.

Concrete Wave Magazine is doing a cover story on Hank and his crew in the next issue, "The Grind Syndicate: Lords of the Hangar Bowl". July 4th is their next big jam session, then Halloween, then the world championships in june. There are a few pictures on the street site, but more will be up from the session that was part of the Fibreflex World Championships that just finished. Mahalo

 
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Hanger Bowl
On 6/26/2002 Ben wrote in from (4.41.nnn.nnn)

Sweet pics of the Hanger Bowl! Makes me want to go there even more. I haven't been there yet but I was just out at skatopia for one of their annual rages where I hung with some people from the hanger bowl: Shannon & Otis & a guy called weed. Not Mike Weed from the 70's adds for Weed wheels- "My Weed's Legal." They encouraged me to come out saying that the bowl is "better than ever"- better than it was when it was still in the hanger. They also mentioned some event to happen there on Halloween but I forgot exactly what it was gonna be- a contest, a party?

 
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Hanger Bowl
On 6/25/2002 Scabs wrote in from (66.21.nnn.nnn)

You had to drive out in the woods, walk through 2' of grass, and in some guys backtard is this....
(notice the pile of beer cans to the right of the door)

 
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Hanger Bowl
On 6/25/2002 Scabs wrote in from (66.21.nnn.nnn)

What an epic bowl this is. Pool coping across the back, real tile on the right hip, sharp lip on left hip, and half pipe key hole with full inner bowl. Many places to tear it up (infinate lines to take).

Hanger Bowl South Carolina


 
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Calgary Millenium Skatepark
On 6/25/2002 Craig from Kingston wrote in from (137.94.nnn.nnn)

Is this place longboard friendly? Would a geezer who's never been in a skatepark before, but can pump his 44" Fibreflex along flat surfaces, feel out of place there?

 
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Skateparks worth the trip

On 6/24/2002 Dan Hughes wrote in from (162.78.nnn.nnn)

I'm planning a skate trip for later this summer. I'll have to stay on the west coast. I'm wondering what parks you guys think are "worth the trip". I'm coming down from Washington State. So far I'm planning on hitting Brookings, Port Orford and the other sick Oregon Parks.

By the way. If you've not heard of the Ballard Bowl. It's worth the trip to Seattle, WA, it is so smooth and fast. Lot's of fun.
Ballard Bowl pictures.

 
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SD Pools?
On 6/23/2002 SLA wrote in from (63.203.nnn.nnn)

Hit Clairemont. It rips!

 
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TVS Forest Lord
On 6/23/2002 Al wrote in from (67.82.nnn.nnn)

...anybody who has a TVS Forest Lord - is the WB 18" at the axle or at the inner truck holes - on their site they say that the 39" Meyer has a 24" WB - but that is to the axle - just wondering........Al

 
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Los Altos skate park in ABQ, NM
On 6/23/2002 K-LEE wrote in from (68.35.nnn.nnn)

I don't think anyone out there will care as much as I do, but the Los Altos skate park in ABQ is now open 24 hours. Just like how you have to get your runs in before school lets out in the spring and fall so that you don't get swamped with kiddies, you now have to get your runs in before 2am when the bars close and the drunk skaters come to be belligerent in the park. It is a lot of fun though, and the 80 degrees at 2am sure beats the 105 degrees during the day.

 
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my park boards
On 6/21/2002 mark chandler wrote in from (192.18.nnn.nnn)

Here's my setups for the local (Boulder County, CO) parks:

http://dimensional.com/~cyclist/quiver_tops.jpg
http://dimensional.com/~cyclist/quiver_bottoms.jpg

 
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Pools
On 6/20/2002 SLM wrote in from (68.8.nnn.nnn)

Hey all,
I'm lookin to get turned onto some pools in the san diego area. any info on non skatepark pools would greatly be appreciated. thanks in advance! SLM

 
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