Spot check: NE Portland
Jake Ferranti sent a few shots of a cool spot in NE Portland:
I was with a friend roaming the NE portland area when we came upon a couple fun banks. One alongside a yard, homeowner was cool as hell and she let us ride as long as we wanted. It needs edging tho but we made do.
Looks fun to me. I can’t believe I’ve never seen this. Yes I can. There are spots like this hidden all over. Don’t ask me, I haven’t been there… yet.
Randy, I hope you come w/some invert footage on this….
damn it! why did you have to blur out the street sign. now i actually have to go look for it…
dude seriously where is this
Chris, it’s prob no harm now, but it’s in a neighborhood around the Taco bell/Fred Meyer loading dock spot on stark & 122nd. I believe the cross st’s for this spot are maryland and 19th st, or 29th, it’s been awhile so I cant remember. Just be cool and ask the homeowner to session, they didn’t seem to care when I have and are generally nice ppl. Heads up-its sharper than it looks on the vert, it’s pretty absent on any tranny.
Those directions you gave in your reply are either written m out of not knowing your geography or they are fake and don’t exist because there is no ne stark st. There is a ne 122nd but it turns into se 122nd by the time you’ve turned on s and there is no Fred Meyer or Taco Bell on 122nd and stark. Plus Maryland ave ends 5 miles before it gets anywhere near 122nd and stark and there is no 19th or 29th st anywhere near that area. There’s a Fred Meyer off of Maryland ave in ne that has a 19th and 29th though and there is a a Fred Meyer on ne 122nd Halsey but there’s no 19th or 20th st anywhere near there…so either you wrote the streets down wrong or you’re purposely giving out fictitious cross streets so that no one will find the spot so you can keep it to yourself which is kind of weird. I mean for over a decade skateboarding was my livelihood, it paid my bills and kept a roof over my head and if I found a sick spot like that that the house owners were ok with me skating there I wouldn’t try to gate keep the spot so I could keep it all to myself. I would share it with others so they could skate there as well and I’d probably have others sharing spots I didn’t know about with me in return for letting them know where my spot was.
Dang dude. His reply was almost 15 years ago, the house may be torn down. He straight up said it had been a while and he couldn’t remember exactly.
There’s a difference in remembering and making up a fake address that dosent exist. Plus how he gets all cool guy about making it some sort of secret spot in the original blog is just childish to me, I don’t expect anyone to agree with my conclusion and I can understand being hush hush if the spot had weird vibes of imminent bust sooner or later then it makes sense to not tell anybody but it says right there that the people that owned the house were cool about it. I’m not saying the guy sucks or anything like that, I just don’t understand the reasoning and no it’s not about making sure no asshiles go to the spot and ruin it for everybody else either.. last. His response where he said he dosent really remember for sure what crossroads it was on was written only about a year later so I don’t buy that and of course it might be gone now after all these years. But maybe I’m wrong and the guy who found this spot and wrote the article really does have an understanding of geography on the same plain of existence as a 2nd grader with a D+ grade average