I remember my first day here with my dad 2001 on a hot summer day splashing in the fountain .. 12 years later I was grinding the ledges , hitting the 3 stairs , countless games of skate countless skaters I’ve met from other cities and countries even at this place. My favorite Philly parts Josh Khalis , Stevie Williams DGK.
I started skating Love park around 1986 when skating was still a mystery to most people...hung out at Spikes Skates a lot off of South St... man those were the daysv
All these iconic skate spots. Love Park, Carlsbad, El Toro, Leap of Faith, Hubba Hideout plus many more all gone. I just recently got back into skating & I’m finding out all these spots are gone. Its a shame
Read my other comment, come to Sweden! Malmoe city will resurrect the park in Malmoe, they bought all the actual stone and features of the park and will reconstruct it as it was originally!
It was a damn shame but getting to skate it during its final days felt amazing we even got pieces of the ground still that we broke to remember it by r.i.p love
This makes me so sad. I never had the chance to go to love but it still feels like a piece of my childhood is dying. It was always some mythological place.
Damn I remember old contest vids early 90s with Spencer fujimo, Jamie Thomas before was a household name,Bam Margera at 11 years old with the fakie kid ripper tricks, easter exposure with Ricky oyola Givin the wired for sound guided tour with like 30 takes Flippin out cuz it wasn't easy to talk in the mic and bust a flawless run obstacles to obstacles, fools like Quim Cardona comin through with power and style for days, Donny barley Killin the whole shit, respectfully stevie Williams and Josh kalis puttin all of Philadelphia not just love on the skate world's radar through vhs and cutouts tacked to the wall,all comers try a take there place in history by busting anything they could down the fountain gap, cameos,intros from the roots beat boxin to keep shit real,Anthony poppa and Brian wenning dedicated to being the next generation through technical artwork on a deck, then doing just that and seemingly with the eaz setting new standards in versatility and consistency, and finally every pro worth there sand bringin there own flavor to LOVE getting mad love from the city of brotherly love. I'm killa Cali from birth n back to earth, but got Hella memories through time from a place I ain't never been. skateboarding does that. R.I.P. LOVE PARK, HUBBA HIDEOUT,WALLENBERG and many more legendary spots. if u got one in your town get down before it's torn down! my bad for the endless comment. Keep Rollin kids it's your world!
This is wht LOVE PARK could have been. A FCKING LEGAL SKATE PLAZA ( PARK) 26,000,000.00 is renovations to put grass n bladed benches ( so u cant skate) Foh, someone walked away with fat pockets because 26, million didnt go into renovations. Thts for dam sure
The park will open up again next spring but will feature major changes for skateboarders like flattened out stairs replaced with grass, flatlands, trees and flower beds the renovation will cost 19.6 million dollars. But mainly the big changes are more grass and things like that little next to no concrete. All of the granite and concrete will be donated to local Philadelphia skateparks across the city. There are many articles online.
😂🤣 yo thats how i felt about colorado skaters when i 1st moved to colorado .....i grew up in houston, tx where the winter is mild.... So Colorado had me freezing freezing...but thats where a actually learned the big difference of adaptation between states that have cold winters and states that have mild winters...see when u grow up in a place with mild winters and when you come across the random super cold days we feel like we gone freeze to death and wonder how can people in northern states deal with that type of cold every single day ..and see thats thing i learned staying in colorado since colorado is consistently cold everyday through the winter my body was actually able to adapt to it to where my body started feeling a little warmer than it did back home on those random cold days ....but see when its a place with a mild winter you can't adapt to the cold ...because the temperatures keep switching up from warm to hot to cold back to warm and then cold again ...the human body can't adapt to cold like that.... but when its a consistently cold temperature everyday ur body can actuallt adapt to it...... so the longer i lived on colorado i was able skate in those crazy cold conditions and feel fine
They are actually making love park in sweden malmö and they stated that ”every cm is gonna be the exact as in philly” they even bought the ground stones, trashcans, ledges etc.
I hate to break it to you, but the park seems to only be a replica of a small part of Love Park. The wording is a bit deceiving if you ask me "...det vi ser bakom oss är en replika av originalmaterial från Love Park gjort på centimetern, exakt enligt originalritningarna från Philadelphia" seems to suggest the park will be rebuilt exactly the same, when in actuality it's only a small part of a sidewalk from the park they're building behind the church near Triangeln.
RIP Love Park... I always wanted to skate there, but I guess I’ll never get the chance to. Oh well, at least there are nice videos of people skateboarding there.
yo i thought they been torn love down and turned it into a grass park, or did they turn it back into a fountain? I saw pics of it w/ grass so I know i aint tweakin. Also they should turn love into a safe spot skate spot like they did to the LA court house!
isn't love park coming back in september 2017? isn't this just like a reconstruction or renovation or something like that? please let me know, i want to skate love park more than anything else.
Exactly build your own skate park from your own funds, the renovation of this park is now family and pet friendly ( includes alligators)before it was dangerous and had a bunch of skateboards flying around the place and only skateboarders occupied the park no other demographic. Plus a load of skateboard losers would try to sue the city when they hurt thierselves doing tricks on city property. It's way better now the skateboard cults have been removed and families can enjoy a central high use area. Those skateboarder bums bought a fire barrel in winter they are just antisocial cults
Sorry that you lost love park skating... But now they are building it again.. Sweden malmo bought the stones , lamps and trashcan Know they started building it up in a exact copy in malmo 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
If I ever get stupidly rich I will buy some empty land somewhere and rebuild this park there exactly how it used to be, and it'll be skateboarding only, maybe BMX but definitely no scooters... Alright scooters ok, but no rollerblades... Ok, fine, EVERYONE will be welcomed. It is called "love park" after all.
Hard to think of something I WOULDN'T give up to skate love park on the last day...well I guess I wouldn't give skating up...but thats bout' it though.
IT WILL BE RESURECTED! Malmoe city in Sweden bought the actual park, all the stone and slabs etc, from Philadelphia and will reconstruct love park in Malmoe. This is not a replica it is the actual park with all the skate wheel rubber ,skater blood, sweat and tears left intact as it was.
Heh I visited Philadelphia, but there were multiple places where I saw these signs of people who got murdered and asking for clues. Never seen that shit in my own country.
+flo1100 Believe it or not, a helmet can throw your balance of a lot. A lot of these guys are pros and when they fall they know how to prevent themselves from banging their head.
I grew up just hoping I could one day fly out to philly and skate it but nvm...😭😭😭 rip.
Same. I wanted to get there so badly😭
+Mshake1314 me too :(
JonahSskating I
its coming back soon
If I make it in skateboarding I'm gonna make a better one
I remember my first day here with my dad 2001 on a hot summer day splashing in the fountain .. 12 years later I was grinding the ledges , hitting the 3 stairs , countless games of skate countless skaters I’ve met from other cities and countries even at this place. My favorite Philly parts Josh Khalis , Stevie Williams DGK.
That when Stevie does that huge shuv revert on flat?
I started skating Love park around 1986 when skating was still a mystery to most people...hung out at Spikes Skates a lot off of South St... man those were the daysv
The few times I did skate it. It's everything that skateboarding is. So natural, majestic, and thriving with new tricks and ways to skate the place.
RIP LOVE, So glad I got to skate it a few times in 2005.
i was lowkey about to cry watching this
+tj carroll
not lowkey anymore you just posted about it on the internet
That's sad..
Oh je te retrouve toi
D'ou ?
+Dédé LABINOUZE Je sais plus je t'ai vu ya 10 min
+Dédé LABINOUZE C'était un extrait de ma vie inintéressante
J'imagine x)
That heelflip was clean, but I'm kinda surprised you didn't use the Late Shuv clip.
+thezbreer454 this was all filmed from this past friday to monday
Just checked his instagram. He did it 14 weeks ago sooo yea.
+PotatoPlop late shuv is whack anyways
+DaIeDenton Lets see you do one down love park gap then you can talk shit you fucking gronk
All these iconic skate spots. Love Park, Carlsbad, El Toro, Leap of Faith, Hubba Hideout plus many more all gone. I just recently got back into skating & I’m finding out all these spots are gone. Its a shame
It is a shame, but saying that it only cements the legendary tricks thrown down, even more legendary.
kid at the end with the heelflip's name is Tyler Nelson!!! check him out!!
Even though its a year ago they tore it down... i feel kinda sad that i will never ever get to skate my dream skate spot in my life....
Read my other comment, come to Sweden! Malmoe city will resurrect the park in Malmoe, they bought all the actual stone and features of the park and will reconstruct it as it was originally!
0:10 Jesus skates too :'D
lol
hahah
yeah that's Philly Jesus bud lmao
Buddy Christ
skategod approves the spot
Never thought a love park R.I.P video could make me feel all warm and fuzzy
rip love park. Glad I got to finally visit it over the summer on a busy day with no issues. had a blast and the local skate scene was awesome.
I’m at love park as I’m typing this and it looks so different
It was a damn shame but getting to skate it during its final days felt amazing we even got pieces of the ground still that we broke to remember it by r.i.p love
RIP. My childhood right here growin up in Philly
This makes me so sad. I never had the chance to go to love but it still feels like a piece of my childhood is dying. It was always some mythological place.
Imagine all the tricks that would have been done in now’s day and age!! Such a shame I could see Foy and Joslin leaving there mark on love park
Damn I remember old contest vids early 90s with Spencer fujimo, Jamie Thomas before was a household name,Bam Margera at 11 years old with the fakie kid ripper tricks, easter exposure with Ricky oyola Givin the wired for sound guided tour with like 30 takes Flippin out cuz it wasn't easy to talk in the mic and bust a flawless run obstacles to obstacles, fools like Quim Cardona comin through with power and style for days, Donny barley Killin the whole shit, respectfully stevie Williams and Josh kalis puttin all of Philadelphia not just love on the skate world's radar through vhs and cutouts tacked to the wall,all comers try a take there place in history by busting anything they could down the fountain gap, cameos,intros from the roots beat boxin to keep shit real,Anthony poppa and Brian wenning dedicated to being the next generation through technical artwork on a deck, then doing just that and seemingly with the eaz setting new standards in versatility and consistency, and finally every pro worth there sand bringin there own flavor to LOVE getting mad love from the city of brotherly love. I'm killa Cali from birth n back to earth, but got Hella memories through time from a place I ain't never been. skateboarding does that. R.I.P. LOVE PARK, HUBBA HIDEOUT,WALLENBERG and many more legendary spots. if u got one in your town get down before it's torn down! my bad for the endless comment. Keep Rollin kids it's your world!
My boy Tyler Nelson with the HEELFLIP
damn can't skate there ever now. fucked over my dreams along with hubba and carlsbad
gone but never forgotten
Damn that's a dope heelflip
My boy Tyler Nelson with the heelflip down the gap!!
the person that did the heelflip at the end was tyler nelson
i moved to philly a year after they tore it down, i wish i wouldve come here sooner
Thrasher should have held a bust or bail here!!
I've always wanted to go to loves Park but I guess I can't anymore
This is wht LOVE PARK could have been.
A FCKING LEGAL SKATE PLAZA ( PARK)
26,000,000.00 is renovations to put grass n bladed benches ( so u cant skate)
Foh, someone walked away with fat pockets because 26, million didnt go into renovations. Thts for dam sure
Love has been dead since Philly banned skateboarding after capitalizing on the x-games, but it's still sad to see a landmark spot get torn down.
The park will open up again next spring but will feature major changes for skateboarders like flattened out stairs replaced with grass, flatlands, trees and flower beds the renovation will cost 19.6 million dollars. But mainly the big changes are more grass and things like that little next to no concrete. All of the granite and concrete will be donated to local Philadelphia skateparks across the city. There are many articles online.
I renember when i play the ps2 Tony Hawk and that place was in the game :( tha's so sad
Sad to see such a legendary skate spot got bulldozed
Rip 😩😭
28 dislikes mostly from philly cops or people against skatin
RIP love park 😢
RIP love park
Philly skaters are crazy, freezing temps and outside skating Gnarly
😂🤣 yo thats how i felt about colorado skaters when i 1st moved to colorado .....i grew up in houston, tx where the winter is mild.... So Colorado had me freezing freezing...but thats where a actually learned the big difference of adaptation between states that have cold winters and states that have mild winters...see when u grow up in a place with mild winters and when you come across the random super cold days we feel like we gone freeze to death and wonder how can people in northern states deal with that type of cold every single day ..and see thats thing i learned staying in colorado since colorado is consistently cold everyday through the winter my body was actually able to adapt to it to where my body started feeling a little warmer than it did back home on those random cold days ....but see when its a place with a mild winter you can't adapt to the cold ...because the temperatures keep switching up from warm to hot to cold back to warm and then cold again ...the human body can't adapt to cold like that.... but when its a consistently cold temperature everyday ur body can actuallt adapt to it...... so the longer i lived on colorado i was able skate in those crazy cold conditions and feel fine
Rip Love park! Shame to see it go, I've always wanted to fly there and skate there ever sence TH proskater 2. But I never could.. Oh well I guess:(
Shoutout to the guy in the "get gnarly" sweatshirt. Baltimore represent
Good heelflip
NinjaLifestyle ❤️
I remember going there as a kid and popping now the stairs
mannn i never got to skate love, at least muni's still here tho
They are actually making love park in sweden malmö and they stated that ”every cm is gonna be the exact as in philly” they even bought the ground stones, trashcans, ledges etc.
I hate to break it to you, but the park seems to only be a replica of a small part of Love Park.
The wording is a bit deceiving if you ask me "...det vi ser bakom oss är en replika av originalmaterial från Love Park gjort på centimetern, exakt enligt originalritningarna från Philadelphia" seems to suggest the park will be rebuilt exactly the same, when in actuality it's only a small part of a sidewalk from the park they're building behind the church near Triangeln.
R.I.P LOVE PARK
RIP Love Park... I always wanted to skate there, but I guess I’ll never get the chance to. Oh well, at least there are nice videos of people skateboarding there.
how can anyone like this? dislike it! bring love back!
It was nice the mayor let them skate it one last time
damn i wanted to skate there :( R.I.P. Love Park
yo i thought they been torn love down and turned it into a grass park, or did they turn it back into a fountain? I saw pics of it w/ grass so I know i aint tweakin. Also they should turn love into a safe spot skate spot like they did to the LA court house!
R.I.P
RIP you will be missed
So no more skating here? Why not? I’m going to Philly and just found out I can’t skate it 😢😢😢
It was torn down 6 years ago... they did use the same ledges at the Rizzo Rink park in Philly though
R.I.P Love Park :(
R.I.P Love Park.
No more love park, no more Carlsbad gap, and no more El Toro. I think that big ledge in San Francisco is gone too.
Josh kalis & kerry getz comes to mind
RIP
# R.I.P Love Park
isn't love park coming back in september 2017? isn't this just like a reconstruction or renovation or something like that? please let me know, i want to skate love park more than anything else.
It'll be a completely different layout at that point in time.
its gonna be grass :(
damn :'( dream spot crushed
🙁Always wanted to visit Love Park...
rip in pepperoni
R.I.P baby🙏👆
This is sad but what do they plan to put in place of it?
+m1ke2001 You can stand updated here planphilly.com/lovepark
Come on
Damn :(
Must have watched the Subzero video 94 on vhs 1000xs, would have love 2 c n person n its heyday! rip
James Radski Ricky Oyola killed it... smooth speed skater with a nasty attitude haha
:(
Man I wish this was still a spot
whats there now? cant find shite
One love thanks to mayor for the proper farewell!!
hi
there are no progress photos at all
song?
why its dead???
R.I.P love park
We need a Love Park replica built somewhere.
Exactly build your own skate park from your own funds, the renovation of this park is now family and pet friendly ( includes alligators)before it was dangerous and had a bunch of skateboards flying around the place and only skateboarders occupied the park no other demographic. Plus a load of skateboard losers would try to sue the city when they hurt thierselves doing tricks on city property. It's way better now the skateboard cults have been removed and families can enjoy a central high use area. Those skateboarder bums bought a fire barrel in winter they are just antisocial cults
@@again5162 Nice try on being edgy. I give you a 2/10.
Sorry that you lost love park skating...
But now they are building it again..
Sweden malmo bought the stones , lamps and trashcan
Know they started building it up in a exact copy in malmo 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
R.I.P. LOVE PARK....
Tnelzzdawg 😎
Tony Hawk pro skater 2
Tony Hawk Proving Ground
If I ever get stupidly rich I will buy some empty land somewhere and rebuild this park there exactly how it used to be, and it'll be skateboarding only, maybe BMX but definitely no scooters... Alright scooters ok, but no rollerblades... Ok, fine, EVERYONE will be welcomed. It is called "love park" after all.
They took Carlsbad Gap and now Love Park. Hopefully no more famous skate spots will be destroyed
Macba is on the view for shit down. : (
What a shame such a historic skate spot!
Well there is FDR and Paines still in Philly.
And 9th and popular
T Nelz a legend
Hard to think of something I WOULDN'T give up to skate love park on the last day...well I guess I wouldn't give skating up...but thats bout' it though.
IT WILL BE RESURECTED! Malmoe city in Sweden bought the actual park, all the stone and slabs etc, from Philadelphia and will reconstruct love park in Malmoe. This is not a replica it is the actual park with all the skate wheel rubber ,skater blood, sweat and tears left intact as it was.
This is on true skate
love park is coming back some time
1:13 snowboarding
That's fucked up. Someone rebuild it as a skate plaza please!
Hi
he kills it
Why is LOVE park getting destroyed?
Wow I never knew so much people wanted to come to Philly before, it’s a great city but I’m telling y’all it’s very dangerous here too
Heh I visited Philadelphia, but there were multiple places where I saw these signs of people who got murdered and asking for clues. Never seen that shit in my own country.
Place is a landmark...they should have made it into an official skatepark before tearing it down...
Best place I ever skated
that was a very cool video honoring the closing park...
but i still don't get why they all don't wear a helmet, but to each their own :)
+flo1100 Why don't you skate with a helmet?
+flo1100 Believe it or not, a helmet can throw your balance of a lot. A lot of these guys are pros and when they fall they know how to prevent themselves from banging their head.
+flo1100 I like your koala pic :)
its hot and gay
RIP LOVE PARK
0:38 - Chad Bartie ? :)