This Old Ledge: Los Angeles Mall
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- For most, the LA Mall is an uninviting Downtown fortress, but skaters have been flocking there since the '80s. Walk the grounds with Ted Barrow as he traces the bricks' history from early Guy to modern Greco.
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Easily the best running segment on Thrasher.
Very true but I miss the “My War.” Those were dope too.
I back this 💯
Agreed
The DIYs with Kanfoush are my personal fave
I couldn't agree more! It's beautifully done and chock full of our history and a testament to what we as skateboarders see through our eyes when looking at a cityscape as opposed to what the average person does and how it then sparks this amazing creativity from the great minds and physical skills of certain Thrashers! I love this series, but than again, I might be considered Gramps to the young Thrashers of today. 😆
Ted knows about History, Architecture and Art, and this is why this series are pure gold
Skateboarding needs to protect Ted Barrow
He sure does, the perfect choice to narrate this series. And it stokes the old home fires in me to get outside with my deck, despite having wife , kids and career and the simple fact that I sure don't need to roll an ankle ! 😂
This old ledge needs to be heavily funded. These stories are the best.
Fire Gary, Fund T.O.L!
This series is literally the best thing Thrasher is doing rn
This and Kanfoush showing how to do 'crete. Two guys who know their stuff. Admittedly, never seen anyone with this level of architectural knowledge tell us the how/why. A buzz whenever I see he's done another one. 👌🏼
100%
Send Ted on a tour of... everywhere, please. This series is far and away the best move Thrasher has made in years.
Imagine him doing Stalin Square in Prague
This is the best skateboard video series ever. There could not be a better host.
Breathing life into "neglected forgotten spaces" by skateboarding really spins it into a positive, beautiful work and narration ☮
Brb just going to watch glass carousel again. Greco getting his much deserved flowers in this one
I could watch this show all day. More please.
Keep this series coming
As an old school skater who doesn't skate anymore, I eat up this series so much and it takes me back to the days of seeking these spots out when I was younger. Please keep doing this series, I am all about it!
The most interesting exposé into skateboarding and architecture ever created. Can't wait for the next episode! Honorable mention from this spot: Natas Kaupas.
Please never stop making these
I LOVE this intersection of skateboarding history and philosophy and architecture. This is a fantastic series.
This is what you get when you get the love of architecture and history from a skateboarder and I love it. It's skateboarding, it's skateboarding adjacent, it's awesome
My favorite Thrasher segment!! The History about the architecture and the architect's who designed them. Is what makes it so dope.
I'll never stop tuning into this series. Brilliant on every level.
Love, love, love this series. Every episode has been spectacular, & some have been a trip down memory lane. I got to skate here back in 2000 after flying over from NC, on a Monday afternoon. Randomly came across it exploring the city with my homie. 18 year old kids amazed by the entirety of the complex, and remembering we saw it in skate videos. That day was amazing, wide-eyed skate tourists soaking it all in. Only left this spot cuz of a screaming homeless lady not liking what we were doing there during her nap. Otherwise, we were the only people skating there midday. The government building basically let us wonder around, floor to floor looking for a restroom to use 😄
I love the passion he has for all of this. Looking forward to more.
I walk by this spot weekly to my office and always wondered what it was looking at the structures. thanks for the education.
This video is actually poetry, from the music to the dialogue to the skating that happened there! Should be in a museum as an art exhibit 😍
all these spots look tough!
Ethan Loy's My War as ender. Perfect ❤
Ethan Loys trick is still so wild to me!
The harsh brick design reminds me of my favorite malls growing up in Denver, which were all built in the late 60s and early 70s. They all have that same feel. I absolutely love LA Mall/Fletcher Bowron Square as a space and marvel at its skate history (especially early World/bLind ads and videos) and sad ghost town state. Lovedolls Superstar (1986) has a great scene filmed there too.
"Skateboarding really shows you a way to recycle these neglected and forgotten spaces in the middle of cities."
WELL SAID ❤
This series is the best thing on TH-cam.
I get so stoked every time a new one of these pops up. Please keep ‘em coming.
Would love to see some famous spots outside of California/NYC as well!
Love this series, brilliant concept. I hope one day to see some coverage of my hometown of Atlanta 🙂 Coan Park Big 4, Avondale, Bellsouth, MLK, Black Blocks, Freedom Park...to name a few. Very fun city to skate
Every time I see these videos pop up I click on it so fast and get so excited to learn more about these spots
This series is PURE ART! Thank you guys.
This series is fantastic. I grew up seeing those spots on magazines since late 80´s. Thanks for those.
Nice to see creative people doing interesting things in my neighborhood! Think I saw y’all filming this when I walked by on my way from the market. Have a nice day ❤
Love this show. Shout to Ted!🙌
"You were building in an era where you expected to be bombed" Barrow you are such an eloquent beast
This series is incredible. Love the thoughtfully worded appreciation of the architecture, history, and skating.
All these episodes are amazing, the focus on architecture, history, and the tricks selection, any off them are abroad? This is great, thank you.
Such a fantastic series. Take your time with it, you're doing it right, and the research makes this so awesome.
It’s really cool to learn about this spot because this little section is in skater XL in the LA map 👍🏼#dope
Best series on thrasher PLEASE keep these coming!!!
It's referred to as "unskateable" in the video, but in a city other than L.A. it would be the best spot ever.
For real. In my home town our no-transition, 45 degree angle brick banks were like hitting a wall, literally. So many scenes would have killed for just one of those planters not to mention all the other stuff around there. It's kind of the style of every one of these videos though that every single spot he talks about has to be the most harsh and brutal ever.
Man those planter quarter pipes look so much easier to skate than when you actually are there. Big respect to all this footage; Ted nailed it about short nose and tail needed
Keep these coming, Thrasher. Best series. ⭐️
Came for the skating, stayed for the incredibly insightful lesson in architecture.
I absolutely LOVE this type of brutal architecture. His narration is perfect 👌🏼
Keep ‘em comin Ted/Thrasher
Last week it was “tabla rasa”, this week it’s polyglot! Love IT!
my fave series since built to shred. Thank you!!!!
As a British person every time I watch one of these episodes I'm always amazed at how many spots are in one area
UC San Diego would be such a cool episode, I love Ted’s urban planning knowledge
This was so absolutely amazing and entertaining to watch.
Great series
We see you Natas. Mason Silva's 180 grind to flip out was kerazy. And he was going super fast.
Ted is a poet. More episodes of this series please
We love Ted in this house
That ender! (Also, the best series in skateboarding)
Quality journalism. Doesn’t get much better.
Shanahan's bluntslide to fakie tre out off the brick quarter was just insane!
Ted Barrow is the fucking man. Blessed to have him under Thrasher employ. Got a feedback sticker on my guitar; hell yeah.
Such a good series. Another banger episode.
Love this!! What a cool combo of skate/architectural history.
Wow everyone across the board loves this. Great job
I'll buy Thrasher forever as long as yall keep shipping Ted around the globe to talk spots
Love the mix of shredding and architecture.
Never stop doing these!
Another banger episode of "This Old Ledge".
Nailing it!! Love these
Absolutely fantastic series !! Please keep it coming !!
We love you Ted ❤
Dude, please keep these coming!
This spot looks unbelievably awesome
this series is so cool. Thank you guys for the history
I love these series!
Best skate series on the internet!
Great episode. I remember the Sk8TV segment with Guy, Rudy, and Gabriel, that was the year I started skating. I thought that place looked so fun. I love Jim’s films, Glass Carousel is so good. Jeremy Klein does a sick bs 360 on one of those quarters too-amazing.
Love this series
I think the retail component (LA Mall) was secondary to its function as a public plaza. There are no obvious storefronts on the Los Angeles Street side of Fletcher Bowron Square--the designers wanted cars and stores hidden. Also, I know you can't mention Transworld, but I always think of Kareem Campbell's August 1992 cover when I see a Millard Sheets mural.
Such a classic cover that’s burned in my memory, he’s wearing the Vans Chukkas and I believe he’s doing a front nose, right?
This series and the narration are poetry.
"This Old Ledge" could sweep the Emmys
So good! I love Ted’s prose
These are all so good. Keep them coming please!
I really enjoy this series! More!
Backside kick flip on the brick quarter is gnarly!!!!
god level skate spot narration. skate poetry.
Very well written. More content!
That Nick Garcia nosebonk nose manual grind is still so unreally insane to me
Love this series!
Love this series. Thank you Ted!
This is a great series great job thrasher 💯
Respect ! Thanks for some skate history
Lovely episodes!
I had jury duty. You get an hour and a half for lunch. So I hit it every day for a month.
Rode the bus from Pasadena. Sat in the jury box with my skate. Judge loved me. So punk rock.
Love what you’re doing. Keep it up homie!
My area of skateboarding is the 70s and 80s. I am unattracted to pretty much everything after 1989. BUT, this information is still important for my education of skateboarding.
This is fantastic!
So many things done and to be done there. Rad. Happy new year Thrasher
I was not able to have fun on these when I rode by it, but man, they are intensely steep. That last clip was dope
“This isn’t an out ledge, it’s more of a punishment!” 😂
After seeing Dressen ride this place in the in the Santa cruze video, we went on a mission to find it. We found it & and it was gnarly. back then, they chased us out in the 80s.
Cruz**
@t3dro yup
Santa Cruz Speed Wheels "Risk It"
Hey man, that was beautiful
I really wish kids could see how nice LA used to be. It was heaven on earth and we knew it.