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Okay, you can use the bowl

K.D. Waltner was rolling some old-school custom quad rollerskates with wide trucks and sliding rails at Pier Park. He said he’d been out of it for ten years, but it seemed to come back pretty quickly. Must be like riding a bike. I think K.D. Waltner is German he’s working for one of the local […]

070921 TIGARD

Land of the Lost

Top to bottom:bug’s eye view of the street section, back of the T.Rex, across the bowls to the big hubba, Gro-Magnon man and the big spinning top volcano, Burke finishing the dino. Tigard progress 9-21-07 Click here for a better look at the panorama. Steve Gump has more photos from Saturday here.

Donald-addition

Donald additions

I have better detail photos in my camera but I wanted to share this. Click here to see it bigger. The verdict: it’s not great work, in fact some of it totally sucks. But it is kind of fun. The park has lost some dignity. The town hired a non-skatepark contractor to put in wheelchair […]

Trifecta coverage on Banquet

Trifecta, Trifecta, Trifecta.

Are you sick of Oregon Trifecta coverage? You’d think we would be. After I made a flippant comment (Who, me?) about the conglomerated Extreme™! sports nature of the Banquet web site, I heard back from the site’s content manager Cody Whitman: We started banquet as a resource for filmmakers and photographers (we sell downloads of […]

Bomb the Beehive

Alterna-Dew in Salt Lake City

Looking for something to do in the Salt Lake City Utah area this weekend that doesn’t involve the Dew Tour? Check out the informal invitational Bomb the Beehive contest and BBQ on Friday September 21st at the South Jordan Skatepark, about 20 mins south of downtown Salt Lake. The Dew has prelims on Thursday and […]

Marginal Way BYOG BBQ

Marginal Way BYOG BBQ, Sept 23rd

The Marginal Way project is having thier annual BBQ and fundraiser this weekend, but their generator gave up the ghost, so be a local hero and contact them if you have a temporay generator hookup for the event. If you can’t bring a generator, bring your board and support the scene. Oh yeah it’s that […]

Lake Delton Wisconsin

Wisconsin needs shredders

..for their cheese! Haw, har! But seriously folks, Dreamland just broke ground on a small skatepark in Lake Delton, Wisconsin. Secretary for the village of Lake Delton, Kimberlee Czuprynko is trying to organize a demo for opening day in Spring of 2008, but she’s been met by silence from everyone she’s contacted. Midwest companies, this […]

Thrasher Land

Thrasher Land

A comment in yesterday’s post about the Skate-Ball ramps got me thinking about an eBay auction I saw a few years back. The parts for a complete fiberglass skatepark were listed with a $30,000 opening bid, and as I recall, nobody bid the minimum. I saved the images because I thought they were interesting. These […]

Tigard Rex

Tigard skatepark

This Tigard Times article on the skatepark from July had some background on the park. Also check out some of the old info including a plan drawing at the Tigard City website skatepark page. A story has been circulating about how the changes to the original design came about. The Tigard City government folks have […]