SOTW 5-26-08: Black Hole Ditch, Boston
May 27th, 2008 by Kilwag
This week’s Shot of the Week is a spot in the Boston area that was known as the Black Hole ditch back in 1986 when the photo was taken. If I recall correctly, the reason it had that name had something to do with the temperature of the asphalt ditch in the hot summer sun. Nothing fancy, just one of those nostalgia shots. This is on my Boston trip negatives, but for all my lack of geographic knowledge of the area and memory loss, this might have been in the outlying burbs. Check it out.
May 28th, 2008 at 4:20 am
This spot is in Roxbury, which is a part of Boston. It’s drainage ditch which was a popular spot to skate in the eighties. It was ripped out about 5 years ago and is now all grass. Alot of good memories there, we used to stop there to skate on the way to the “C” Bowl in Cambridge.
May 28th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
That looks like more fun to me right now than any skatepark in the NW.
Let’s hear it for boiling hot, shirts off ditch sess’s!
May 28th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I’ve been there. Let me say it again. What exactly do you mean when you use the word fun? That said, it would be cool to build one of the old banked-slalom skatepark features or a ditch simulation in one of our future parks.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
What would be fun about it is that it wouldn’t be a skatepark. It would be a place that no one would care about and most of the time no one would be there. It wouldn’t be perfect, it would probably suck and you would have to make it fun by being creative and goofy. There wouldnt be a million kids, bikes and douchebags there vibing you for wearing pads and not being “hardcore” enough.
That’s what I mean by fun.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Well if you put it that way.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:06 am
That sounds like 1976!!!
May 29th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Skateboarding will eat itself.