@@chrismorgan5081 Do you remember when they actually closed this park? I grew up about a mile down Clark Ave by LB City College, but can't remember when the skate park was actually removed(81-83?) 😢
Ray Bones riding a Quiksilver with WHITE BONES and that Gelfand Ollie photo nice video I met Alan Gelfand at his mechanics shop in Hollywood Florida in 2009 nice guy and loves racing cars 👍
Skating is so hard- started just before this video was shot...77ish. I skated my butt off for 25 years and was trash...stopped trying after ACL completely popped. I have style pushing but never came close to being legit. Surfing same and I'm still trying; one day I look good and the next day like a beginner. I loved the sports from day one but am trash.
Cool video, good times. I was in high school when this was filmed and lived near by in Cerritos. Brought back memories one of my favorite boards, a Sims Pure Juice. Back then if we weren’t surfing, we were skating.
Rad vid! Thanks for doing it!!! For history’s sake there were two keyhole pools back to back and another super deep keyhole pool. They all had blue tile and coping. Months before the park closed they finished a clamshell shaped pool with a very narrow roll in. That pool also had matching tile and coping. In my opinion the clamshell pool was the best thing there. In your opening shot that is the clamshell and also in a bunch of the still photos. You can tell by the super narrow channel. I skated there when it was a new park and more when the clamshell was there. I never got to skate Bellmar’s but his pool was a copy of the Lakewood clamshell. Great footage!
Do you remember when they actually closed this park? I grew up about a mile down Clark Ave by LB City College, but can't remember when the skate park was actually removed(81-83?) 😢
This is so awesome you know the history of this contest . Or learned it from someone. I still skate with Steve every now and then. Took em on a lil pool tour in Santa Rosa. Shitty pools but he was stoked .
This footage probably isn't separated by that many years, but it's amazing how much the boards change throughout. Seemed like they got wider by the year back in those days. Great vid - thanks!
Steve Alba was the only one shredding the deepest end of the halfpipe... Facts..! I was there with my broken hand newly signed to G&S skateboards I would have place in the top 3 no doubt.
@@RealSkateStories Joe Gatlin Skateboarding 's first African American Pro Skater ! with a agent Also I was one the first to sign with Independent Trucks (Fausto Vitello) cheers from Lido Isle, Newport Beach, CA. 🌊🤙🏿
I still have my black and blue original metal flake fly away helmet..... First thing I noticed in this video for 1979 was how skinny the boards were they were blowing up by then I was riding the first issue of the Jim Muir Tri-Plane at 14 years old.... No one liked my concave because nobody on the East Coast had concave at that time I got the deck in 78 for Christmas....😮
Maaaaan vert progressed a lot in 5 years or so since then to mid eighties when the bones brigade made their mark with others like Hosoi, Grosso and the like... I didn't really start till the early ninties when street started kicking in more... Cool times!
Lakewood, California, it's right next to Long Beach. You can see the Lakewood Post Office and a multistory professional building right across the street in some of the shots. I grew up about a mile down the street(Clark Ave) from this park. Good Days!👍
I was there during the Lakewood filming. All of us Santa Cruz Competition Team skaters were. I was like 12.
😂
I'm 52, been skatin for 47 years....and STILL SHREDDIN every mfkn day!
Keep it 🆙🆙🆙
@@RealSkateStories 🙏...til I die homie!
57 and I still longboard. Skate for fun,bow to none! (Lone Losers) 🤘🤠🤘
@@keithhampton9700 nice homie! 🙏
How many stairs have you kickflipped?
My home park back in the day. I was at the contest that day.
It's walls looked massive
Great music too, great footage, thx for uploading.
Great to Salba and Malba going so far back, and getting the recognition for that and killing it at that time.
Skated all the those fine parks had to quit at 50 cost me a hip replacement but I'd do it all again!
Lakewood looks scary, and i am familiar with vert
Same here still have my membership cards from this park and many more. Both hips replaced and one knee. 52 years old now no more skating for me.
@@chrismorgan5081 Do you remember when they actually closed this park? I grew up about a mile down Clark Ave by LB City College, but can't remember when the skate park was actually removed(81-83?) 😢
You are an awesome historian. Thank you for making these videos.
Ray Bones riding a Quiksilver with WHITE BONES and that Gelfand Ollie photo nice video I met Alan Gelfand at his mechanics shop in Hollywood Florida in 2009 nice guy and loves racing cars 👍
Frankie Blood - Beautiful style
Can we go back to these golden days?
You can never go home again.
Most skating I've seen of Steve Olsen hell yea
This is what gets me hyped to skate.
It is the new guys crushing it, it is the legends pushing it.
Wow sick love the music and editing. God's work.
Skating is so hard- started just before this video was shot...77ish. I skated my butt off for 25 years and was trash...stopped trying after ACL completely popped. I have style pushing but never came close to being legit. Surfing same and I'm still trying; one day I look good and the next day like a beginner. I loved the sports from day one but am trash.
It’s not what you look like, when you’re doin´ what you’re doin´.
It’s what you’re doin´ when you’re doin´ what you look like you’re doin´!
for me style is super important@@joelp9486
@@joelp9486bullshit. Style is everything.
@@Mo11y666 Express Yourself.
I can relate. I just hit 22yrs and counting. I’m still horribly inconsistent and altogether talentless. Still trying though. Love hurts man.
Great music!
Cool video, good times. I was in high school when this was filmed and lived near by in Cerritos. Brought back memories one of my favorite boards, a Sims Pure Juice. Back then if we weren’t surfing, we were skating.
Epic piece of history! Thank you! Btw Alva’s 5-0 grind was legit!
Rad vid! Thanks for doing it!!! For history’s sake there were two keyhole pools back to back and another super deep keyhole pool. They all had blue tile and coping. Months before the park closed they finished a clamshell shaped pool with a very narrow roll in. That pool also had matching tile and coping. In my opinion the clamshell pool was the best thing there. In your opening shot that is the clamshell and also in a bunch of the still photos. You can tell by the super narrow channel. I skated there when it was a new park and more when the clamshell was there. I never got to skate Bellmar’s but his pool was a copy of the Lakewood clamshell. Great footage!
Do you remember when they actually closed this park? I grew up about a mile down Clark Ave by LB City College, but can't remember when the skate park was actually removed(81-83?) 😢
Thanks for keeping us informed.
Oh gnarley handrails like that ! Wish they showed that stuff more.
You videos are always so rad, I've been a fan since Risk it came out. Keep doin what you do bro, we need you.
Thank you!
This is so rad!
Sick content! More of this please
Thank you. Ok!
G'job
Best Skatepark Ever 😎
This is so awesome you know the history of this contest . Or learned it from someone. I still skate with Steve every now and then. Took em on a lil pool tour in Santa Rosa. Shitty pools but he was stoked .
Good stuff, Nicely down..Thanks...
Golden age in California.
Shot of Jay Adams at 4:19 on an Alva Skate?
This footage probably isn't separated by that many years, but it's amazing how much the boards change throughout. Seemed like they got wider by the year back in those days. Great vid - thanks!
Steve Alba was the only one shredding the deepest end of the halfpipe... Facts..! I was there with my broken hand newly signed to G&S skateboards I would have place in the top 3 no doubt.
You rode for G&S? rad. What's your name?
@@RealSkateStories
Joe Gatlin
Skateboarding 's first African American Pro Skater ! with a agent Also I was one the first to sign with Independent Trucks (Fausto Vitello) cheers from Lido Isle, Newport Beach, CA. 🌊🤙🏿
@@JBG949 My respect!!
@@RealSkateStories Likewise I've been a subscriber for a good minute. Awesome channel. 🤙🏿
Merci Beaucoup Maaan☆♤♧!! That was Dopeee as F*%K Dudeee ! !! 👊🎱♠️🧨🔥
THANKS FOR POST⚡🙏
The best skatepark
I remember the monster bowl being really gnarly!!
Almost everyone did tuck knee airs back then . Love those rizor pads. I still use them for pool riding or bowls
Sick sick.
I've been skating since I was a kid in 1980 I took about 18 years off and I just got a new board the other day I'm excited
Hell yeah!
I still have my black and blue original metal flake fly away helmet..... First thing I noticed in this video for 1979 was how skinny the boards were they were blowing up by then I was riding the first issue of the Jim Muir Tri-Plane at 14 years old.... No one liked my concave because nobody on the East Coast had concave at that time I got the deck in 78 for Christmas....😮
When I was a kid in the 70s I would have dreams about the snake runs I didn't even know they existed to be honest
Great vid as always! Please tell us what is the band and the song's name. Thanks!
Truth and Janie "No Rest For The Wicked"
@@RealSurfStories thank you very much my friend. Greetings from Rio de Janeiro!
Good song.
Nice
Tony, the Steve Olson footage in the beginning is in a surf movie. Can you remember the name of the movie?
I ask myself how hard the wheels where at this time 🤔
Probably 80a-85a
how many old school skater's remember pipeline skate park
Pretty sure no one forgot.
Maaaaan vert progressed a lot in 5 years or so since then to mid eighties when the bones brigade made their mark with others like Hosoi, Grosso and the like... I didn't really start till the early ninties when street started kicking in more...
Cool times!
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
What is the song you’ve tracked here? Gotta admit I haven’t heard that one… has a UFOish feel but I don’t think that’s the band.
Truth and Janie "No Rest For The Wicked" 1976
Truth and Janie "No Rest For The Wicked"
Dope
This is Lakewood? I was born (84) and raised there and have been skating forever and NEVER knew about this
Lakewood in which state?
Lakewood, California, it's right next to Long Beach. You can see the Lakewood Post Office and a multistory professional building right across the street in some of the shots. I grew up about a mile down the street(Clark Ave) from this park. Good Days!👍
Bobby Valdez!!!
2:06 HOWARD HOOD
👋👋👋
Stacy
Judging from the helmets and pads, they weren’t as fond of concussions and broken bones back then😅
4:08 This must be an AI video this Cab pro model wasn’t released till 1980 brah 😑
its a 1980 photo 🤓
@@RealSurfStories so you put a 1980 photo in a video labeled 1979? That’s clickbait brah
@@juansaladzar The contest was 1979. The photos are from the lifespan of the park's history braddah.
@@RealSurfStories
Ahhh…lifespan brah 🌈
🫡
Grew up in LB.pools,and parks all day long with most of these very men.
my dad told me about thisplace
Your What ?
Would not change it for the woukd
Skateboarder magazine turned into Action Now,it wasn't as good in my opinion. The latter
Wish I grew up skating in those days instead of the 90s