This Old Ledge: Bay Blocks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Though “The Ribbon” was a doomed project for city government, the stretch of concrete blocks along the Embarcadero further cemented San Francisco’s mecca status in the 90’s and beyond.
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I hope you guys just keep Ted walking around the entire Bay for the next 5 years breaking down the history of every spot 🙏
today the bay tomorrow the world 🤙
yeah man, i guess thats his job now
Also other parts of cali and east coast spots with a local dude.
@@Skate3League Local dude + Ted since Ted's super knowledgeable about architecture & classic skating,
Yes please!
Having Ted narrate these is a great move. His ability to use his art history background to make artistic/architectural concepts accessible is great.
The best shit I've since Love Letters
Adding to how cool Barbara Stauffacher Solomon is is that she was happy to see people skate it! "'I love it that the skateboarders love it, and Stanley hates it that the skateboarders love it'" In describing why she loves that the skateboarders use the Ribbon she says, simply: "'It's part of the world.'"
Can't tell you how much I love this series but wish they were longer. The EMB episode alone could have been a feature-length documentary about what is arguably the Mecca of modern skateboarding. Maybe someone someday will make it, but I sure hope Ted will be involved to add his particular insight and knowledge.
EMB and love park probably the most important skate spots in history
@@MFSHECKS I feel Love park has got - pun intended - enough love already with long form pieces on Kalis and Stevie in recent years. But EMB needs its own full-length doc. The kids gotta know about James Kelch and all the craziness that went down there, both on and off the board
I think they have OnVideo for that
Top tier content
You mean top Pier content? 😂 @bluntsskateco
@@ryandib5POP Pier content
Haha! I’m Michael Strobert, I remember saying that at Lincoln. the best skate sessions in nyc before the iPhone. The thing I always loved about Ted was when we were younger is he always treated all of us like we were on the same level and took everyone seriously who took themselves seriously. We all wanted to sw bs tail as good as Ted.
Possibly one of the best series since the on video segments bqck in the early 2000s. Thank you Ted & thank you Thrasher
dude that's exactly what the hubba one reminded me of. On was the best
@@phatcap45 on video did probably some of the best spot profiles ever. They’re still my go to when I get nostalgic.
better than On Video
@@eletor you done lost yo damn mind
Love this series. Not only does it educate on skate history and architecture, but also points out the mindset and pitfalls of shitty urban planning and design - designing for self interest or vanity and not actually considering the needs of the community and how shared spaces can be used. How about you ask the community what their wants and needs are before jumping head first into a project. Welp, skaters will always find a way to take advantage of shitty urban design.
Less of urban design from an objective perspective and more from a political one. Wealthy individuals view homeless people as sketchy and dirty and don't want them in their public spaces, so using hostile architecture to deter them from using these spaces is seen as a good thing. So it's not shitty design at all, it was specifically designed to do this based on the perspectives of the politicians who gave direction on this, and supposedly the people who elected them. That being said, North American planning and urban design skews heavily towards a progressive/advocacy perspective, so the urban designers/landscape architects who were involved with this would probably disagree with its implementation in the first place
Ted and you guys are the man for this series. This is so important for skate history
This Thrasher series is only second to Atlantic Drift imo. Please keep these coming! Love hearing Ted's knowledge on the historical architecture and skating
well done. amazing to see the different generations and progression on the blocks.
jakes kf front tail was perfection
This is the best series Thrasher has done IMO. There is almost no limit to the amount of spots that could be highlighted in this series. I'll certainly be watching every one.
This old ledge is the best new series to come out of Thrasher's youtube. Ted Barrow is a gift to skatboarding. Long live ted barrow
This series is fantastic! Please keep them coming.
Hope Thrasher and Ted keep making these, I’m obsessed
Outstanding content. Skateboarders absolutely need more of this relevant historical/architectural knowledge of iconic spots. Keep up the positive work.
So happy i get to live in San Francisco while these are coming out
My favorite from Thrasher Mag ! Keep it going .
Grew up skating the pier and never knew this history, thank you thrasher
Wow I love these spot history lessons so much.
So good. Loving all of these episodes so far. Keep it going
Gotta keep doing these, they’re great
Love these. Keep it up! If you’ve never been there you wouldn’t know all those things were connected from seeing a clip or photo. Barbara seems like the coolest!
Big admiration for these history spot videos.
The amount of good shit and finery that went down at that spot is unbelievable. Never forgotten.
this series is chefs kiss
now this is the new fresh stuff thrasher needs to be dropping as well as parts, keeeeep at it Ted and Thrasher
History, culture, skate. Loved it!
Best skateboarding contents in ages…❤ thanks.
This series is so excellent. Thank you Ted and Thrasher. More please.
this series is better than anything else on thrasher
This series just keeps getting better.
I knew this was gonna be good, but its GREAT. Such a solid series. The host and team have really done their research and so well edited. Love it!!
This series just keeps getting better. Ted rules. Love the insight 🍻
shout out to barcelona and MACBA for understanding that skateboarding is an art in and of itself & allowing skaters to warp the structures with skating essentially creates an entire new piece of art. allowing skaters to skate MACBA is so fucking cool
I appreciate architecture & design. These videos are so informative & interesting
Please send Ted to every iconic skate spot in the world (starting with California and branching out), have him research the architectural history, and make this series go on indefinitely.
Best series ever
Keep them coming ❗️❗️
Please keep making these types of videos. This could turn into a global concept
Keep this series going we love Ted
this is some of the best content in skateboarding
Love this series
Best series...more more more!
I learn something new each week. Such an amazing series.
what a serie! I need
Props to homeboy for doing all this research. These are super interesting. Thank you so much🙌
The research and info behind these is so interesting.
Love this series and not just for the nostalgia of seeing old skate footage and photos from these legendary spots, but all the background information makes it very interesting. I've noticed a theme in the series: public works projects are when imagination gets pummeled by concrete blocks of reality. I'm not saying they shouldn't be done, but no one tests anything small scale first. They just dump a millions in and then argue whether it was worth it forever.
Perfect series
Great piece. Wasn't expecting to see the June 1997 issue of Thrasher, which I'm pretty sure was the first issue I ever bought.
more please! these are fun to watch
ahahah the last quote is amazing. Once again, awesome job y'all
Can this series just continue indefinitely please.
hoping this goes nationwide eventually, and then international?? would be so good
Man, if I designed a public place and people gave it even more life than originally intended, that’d be so amazing! People aren’t just sitting on it, they’re pushing forward their culture 🦾🦾🦾
Another banger, i love this series, and we all love TED!
Please continue these famous spots, no matter who little it unknowned, from around the country.... And have Ted or someone explaining the history with skate clips/footage! Awesome
Please make 10,000 episodes. Thank you
I get psyched when people are interested and happy that we are skating the marginal spaces that aren’t otherwise used or appreciated
Amazing series, Ted and Thrasher thank you.
seriously the best shit thrasher is doing rn.. more!!!!
I already love this series. But I must say, with the 7 pier being so damn close, I’m surprised there wasn’t an honorable mention. But that doesn’t matter. Awesome content here. Grateful for it 🤙💐
I'd be willing to bet that Pier 7 will have it's own episode.
@@richardtessari3627 True that. True that 🤙
@@richardtessari3627 you were totally right. And it didn’t take long! 🤙
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Best skateboarding series
Wow - Ted knocked it out of the park for this one. Great music choice as well.
These videos are fascinating, please keep them coming
Mike Carroll spitting that old FTC sticker... Remember that company or more those shirts that said "I ❤️ cop's"!!?? I loved those
More of these videos please
Seen it in person, its way bigger and longer than it looks, any tricks on it are gnarly. (Think the Carlos Ribeiro flip bck tail slide is missing)
Love this series! Keep 'em coming.
These are the only Ted Talks I want to see. Keep going!
keep these going!!!!
Hope to see an ATL black blocks episode one day
And another one....would of been good to have included Stevie William's switch crook, although I do appreciate there as a lot to choose from.
nice informative video to watch while playing over this bossa nova practice backing track
More please !
that was wonderful
So psyched Texas Ted and Brendan Bill are doing this. Keep ‘em coming!
awesome history of what i love
Moooorreee moooorrreeee mmmooooooooorrreeeee. So good.
Ted is the man! Loving these videos!
Best series hands down. Topic and host are a perfect match. Please keep doing these
Ted! I really like the Jeans Jacket u are wearing❤ looks dope!
This series rules.
Nice video!
This is like the PBS for Skateboarders
JJ’s kick front tail was more impressive than the current SOTY’s back noseblunt.
One of the few benches that say, “hey u can sit here” and then the very next second tell the now sitting person, “keep it moving! Let’s go!”
JJ kickflipping into a tailslide is already fucked as it is… but to do it on Bay Blocks… is FUCKED! S/o Barbara Soloman being a real one with that quote too. Kudos thrasher 🔥
These are so good. Also, what an ending 🤣
Love this series. Keep ‘em coming.
So good.
Theses are great!!!!
I would DEF watch a show called “SPOTS” where you guys walk around your hometown skating spots and break down the history of those spots.
finally something interesting and valuable! keep doing shit like this please
Thrasher x Architectural Digest. I love it!
can’t wait for 3rd and Army
NEED MOAR HISTORY
Best of the best skate content
Jake Johnson is once again king of the spot