Time for more input on the Happy Valley skatepark in Clackamas County, Oregon. We must have missed a meeting or two, because from the looks of the tiny renderings, they appear to have chosen a designer already… Street plaza city, Newline? The meeting is Wednesday, April 29, 2009, from 5-7 p.m. at Sunnyside Elementary school on 13401 SE 132nd Avenue in Clackamas, OR. No word on whether the infamous Happy Valley back biter (seen above, lower right) will be allowed in the park. This is as good an excuse as any to post some more photos form the Happy Valley pool you love to hate.
Yeah, it’s pretty much just pictures of Mark, because Rich was behind his camera and that was the extent of our entourage. After you are done here, there are some more shots of this pool over here and here
Mark trying to carve over the stairs and under the ladder.
Air across the light on the deep face.
The dog that bit me in the back while I was standing in the corner of the shallow end.
Deep face wall.
He’s grinding, you know?
Hey, it’s me! I can’t remember if Rich or Mark picked up my camera, but thanks to whoever it was. Cheater corner carve.
18 comments
ian matot
i’m pretty stoked for the new park. the design they choose is on the newline website now. it’s not all street,(thank god,) there appears to be a decent bowl in the corner. check it out. the shop i work for is bout a 10 minute skate from where the park is gonna be so i couldn’t be much happier.
bobcat
Carl i don’t know what your fucking problem is about that 1.2 million dollar foam filled shithole, but since you dont even live here I am not taking anything you say to heart.
mo
I wish I would have skipped the meetings too. We were told our voice would matter but it was just a big waste of time, except for the joy of being laughed at and talked down to by the designers. The voice of the majority from the meetings is not represented in the final design, or the previous alternative designs. Newline didn’t come with any designs that even remotely compared to the diversity of the facility they are supposed to be replacing. But Carl’s right on two points. They did provide exactly what the client (Seattle Center, not Seattle skaters) hired them for. The Center wanted a pretty landscaped area that doesn’t look like a skatepark. And not everyone was shut out. Only those who disagreed with the all-plaza design (most of the skaters at the meeting) were shut out.
Carl
BTW this was so important to Bobcat that he skipped the meetings.
Carl
Dude.. not everyone was shut out of the process. Lots of local dudes who are still doing it hard were involved. I know more about what’s going on there than I do about PDX, because I was born there, genius.
I don’t think I need to go on. Blame Seattle skaters, the Seattle Center, and me. Newline was only doing what they were hired for.
bobcat
no, carl i’m not.
democracy is when the government listens to the people.
that is not the case here in seattle.
remember, you live 165 miles south of seattle so how are you so wise about this?
Carl
I think you’re confusing fascism with democracy..
bobcat
no, carl i’m the voice of reason and one person that’s not ever going to stand up to this bullshit ass-kissing fascist regime. Seattles skateboarding scene died in 2007.
Rich
Nice shots Randy. That one of MC going over the stairs below the coping is great.
aaron
I hope to someday be The Onion of skatepark opposition.
Carl
Bobcat is the Fox News of skatepark opposition.
bobcat
Newline didn’t listen to the seattle skateboarders and taxpayers and they wont listen to you.
Buck Rogers
how do you loose when you don’t have to build.
You fly some guy down form another country that is actually aware of the entire skate(industry)world “outside” of just Oregon, and have him actually listen to the kids “inside” of the town to deliver a concept of a park that is not biased, its not influenced by any other dudes or trends. Then gets the park built by an American company(California skate parks) that has a crew that wont bitch, about building something that they don’t personally agree with, and they do a good job. Just thank that some Old ass dude named Wally is not behind those drawings…otherwise you would have the same fucking bowls that are all slightly altered with the same 6 foot shallow end with Vert. Not that vert is bad, but when you make the mini section with vert you are sucking balls.
Spectrum must be bitter that they fell behind on seing the potential GOLD MINE that newline has now seen by simply “drawing” a cool skate park and throwing down the apparent correct approach.
Concrete Warfare
Lame!
Carl
This is great news.
curtis
with all respect to Grindline, Oregonians, should not let any skatepark builders into their state that arn’t from Oregon!
warehouse
You all will regret letting newline into the state.
Word from Spectrum guys…they’ll take a loss to get a job. I bet the kids are stoked on another street park.
alex
hey so are they ever ganna build this skate park?