Red Curbs Zine - July 21, 2010

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For the last two summers we had a pool to skate at an abandoned apartment complex in Mountain View. It was shitty and square with an un-skate-able shallow end and no carve-able corners. But what the pool lacked in skate-ability it made up for with complete availability. There was no way we were gonna get busted, and it was right in our hood. We showed up with beers and BBQs. We stood around in the bottom talking about tricks and ideas. We invited people who hated it and never came back. It was our pool, and it got bulldozed the other day.

The first summer we skated the pool we had set a goal. One of us was going to do a trick on the coping before the rain came. Here it is in the photo on the right. KC rode up fakie and did a tail stall. It was so killer. This is a photo of the first one he ever pulled. He's got it on lock now.

This is Brett hitting one of the side walls and doing a carve over the pool light.

The pool collected a lot of rain water last winter. KC and Demetri dropped the pump into the pool to drain it for this summer. Nice work dudes. Draining done, KC skates the "closed" pool. Demetri took both of these photos.

Here's more photos of the pool. Move your cursor over a thumbnail to see the big picture.

July 21, 2010

SKATE FEATURE:
Pool R.I.P.

by Jesse Van Vleck

Jesse. 1987.

KC gets a wheel over.