Insane. My dads house at the time is around the corner. My father built this ramp. You and him worked at the same park in Toronto and skated together and are still friends to this day. I'm his son and I still skate to this day it's my life.. thank you guys for setting the DNA in my blood for this.
WOW!!!! Great video. Thank you very much for sharing this... skated early - mid eighties in Toronto/ Scarborough, and missed the few parks our city saw. BROOM AND STONE.. thats going back... time flies!! God Bless.
amazing footage.we used to get my buddys older brother to drive to that park from the boonies of pickering.what remeber most was being so tired after few hours of trying to get our moneys worth. the skate park was so much easier to get to but for us countryboys it was quite the scary trip. our personal ramp was 2 sheets of plywood vertically put together...tons of vertical but one slip up down on the concret drive you went.
This crappy little park was located in Scarborough, Ontario, corner of Midland and Lawrence. It took almost four months to make, and half a million dollars, about twenty five years ago it became a parking lot.
I skated here for year even after it was closed down. Hung out at Westwood & Markham most of the time. I too remember the Conway Gibson & Shaw. Later in the years we use to bus it up to Newmarket. I still have my board. I actually now know the guy who's parents owned the Broom & Stone who lease the property. Brings back some memories.
@@markholman2407 I have an electric long board but I upgraded to an EUC , electric unicycle and I love that beast, I go trail riding and it is so fun… but I always wear full safety gear, falling after your 50’s is potentially very hazardous!
Just had this vid sent to me by my bro. I used to skate on the park team with Paul Gibson and others. We were riding our 10 speeds there after hours before any BMX'ers thought about it. Crazy times 4 sure.
Crappy? Not! The Superbowl skatepark is still one of the best parks I've ever skated. The big snakerun and halfpipe would still be fun today. I loved that place. Do you have any more footage from there? How about Blair Conway, the Yap brothers, Paul Gibson, Dave Campbell, Paul Howe?
skfywss Dave Campbell was a friend of mine. I skated at this park 40 years ago. This brings back awesome memories of the Super Bowl skatepark. Thanks for posting.
OMG the original Hogtown boys, Blair was my idol and yeah I skated with Paul Howe a lot, and once in awhile with Dave Campbell, and the Yap Brothers. Paul was around the Superbowl a lot.
I used to Skate there we come all the way from Rexdale then westwood Skateboard park was built right by my house. And at 12 yrs old I got a to be on The westwood park team and was given pro Athlete status so I could work there and teach lessons coolest job I ever had Blair and Paul from Canadian Sims team made friends with us and took us to a few secret spots a Pool A set of Full pipes and a few cool bank spots around the southern Ontario area great times
amazing video. i wish more home videos like this would resurface. awesome history. I've actually seen pictures of that park before. whre was it located around??
moulded my youth there. skated it from day one til the final days. remember the death bowl(?) at the North West corner of the park. must have been 12 feet deep and poorly designed with plastic coping. started with a Cal 240 and worked my way up to a wee Willie Winkel with ACS trucks and red krypts. bought it at Rudy's skateboard shop on Eglinton West. also a place at Yonge and Finch and the Dupont skateshop spent most of my time at Markham skatepark. got back into skateboarding a couple of years ago at 49 years of age. live around the corner from Vanderhoof skatepark in Leaside
I have an 8mm film sitting at home in Vancouver that I shot as a high school project which shows the Markham skate park with the best skaters of the time. Some of the people mentioned below may be in it. I should get it transferred at some point.
Yes I skated there, weird coping and funny tight pool with useless unskateable snake runs. However I have heard that the park still exists under the flooring of that building. If you could remove the floor it is still there!! Check it out!!!
Listen the transitions in the half -pipe were so bad and the snake run needed real vertical, the rest of the park was a joke...but yes it would be fun to skate today.;-) Ahh yes, Blair Conway and the Hogtown boys of T.O. lore. Actually by the time I was working there, those boys had moved on to Westwood, or Markham. Yes, the Yap brothers, Gibson, Dave Shaw, and maybe Paul Gibson might show up once every few months but not enough skate-able vertical, none really. I wish I had more footage.
Nice your park had real vertical, way smoother transitions and gnarly coping, used to knock my feet of my board going over it. I remember, nick name, Gorilla man, riding there, he had a wide stance and my friends called him that, he was also a bigger man, more muscular.
Yes, that's right and if you were brave enough you could chance the death dogs and burgers I personally might have 'pseudo-nuked' in a high powered convection oven. Yes and as I have already said, apparently the Skateboard City still exists under some thin flooring and carpet. I actually only live about ten blocks from that ole skate park.. Darrien lake was the first skate park I skated in, I think, 78?
I got an electric skateboard 3 years ago, got bored. I bought an EUC and ride in the banks at skateparks but no more bowls or half pipes. Love trail riding on my EUC though.
Crappy??? Thanks to Darryl Griff (Rubber Man) for getting this park built at all...even if it didn't satisfy everyone's dream. I was scouting and skating Drain Banks, any ramp looking asphalt surface, under bridges, and even Darien Lake and Fun Country with Blair and Dave and Paul and all the other awesome goofballs of the day...What an F'n era, wouldn't trade it for anything.
T. A. was king and I was skating at a demo with a lame Canadian skate team when we brought him to skate with us. He RIPPED, we looked like little kids..... Funnier was skating with Ty Page, Ty who?? who was a kickflip master and loved to power drop off things like vans... he also had a TY slide signature full on move.... ahhh the beginnings of street skating...
Insane. My dads house at the time is around the corner. My father built this ramp. You and him worked at the same park in Toronto and skated together and are still friends to this day. I'm his son and I still skate to this day it's my life.. thank you guys for setting the DNA in my blood for this.
WOW!!!! Great video. Thank you very much for sharing this... skated early - mid eighties in Toronto/ Scarborough, and missed the few parks our city saw. BROOM AND STONE.. thats going back... time flies!! God Bless.
amazing footage.we used to get my buddys older brother to drive to that park from the boonies of pickering.what remeber most was being so tired after few hours of trying to get our moneys worth.
the skate park was so much easier to get to but for us countryboys it was quite the scary trip.
our personal ramp was 2 sheets of plywood vertically put together...tons of vertical but one slip up down on the concret drive you went.
Hey man...I remember this well..well more when the roof was on it..still skating after all these years.. I also had a ramp similar to that one. peace!
This crappy little park was located in Scarborough, Ontario, corner of Midland and Lawrence. It took almost four months to make, and half a million dollars, about twenty five years ago it became a parking lot.
it was on the northwest corner of Midland and Lawrence beside the old Broom and Stone curling rinks.
I skated here for year even after it was closed down. Hung out at Westwood & Markham most of the time. I too remember the Conway Gibson & Shaw. Later in the years we use to bus it up to Newmarket. I still have my board. I actually now know the guy who's parents owned the Broom & Stone who lease the property. Brings back some memories.
Yeah Blair, Paul and Dave were legendary. I learned how to do snapbacks with Dave.
@@jettrun wow I posted my message 9 years ago and you still responded.
@@markholman2407 I literally am rarely on my youtube channel, obviously I am responding to 14 year old messages. ;-)
@@jettrun good on you for responding. I still have my skateboard from 1979. I am not 60 and get on it every once in a while
@@markholman2407 I have an electric long board but I upgraded to an EUC , electric unicycle and I love that beast, I go trail riding and it is so fun… but I always wear full safety gear, falling after your 50’s is potentially very hazardous!
Just had this vid sent to me by my bro. I used to skate on the park team with Paul Gibson and others. We were riding our 10 speeds there after hours before any BMX'ers thought about it. Crazy times 4 sure.
Yep good ole, Paul Gibson!
Crappy? Not! The Superbowl skatepark is still one of the best parks I've ever skated. The big snakerun and halfpipe would still be fun today. I loved that place. Do you have any more footage from there? How about Blair Conway, the Yap brothers, Paul Gibson, Dave Campbell, Paul Howe?
skfywss Dave Campbell was a friend of mine. I skated at this park 40 years ago. This brings back awesome memories of the Super Bowl skatepark. Thanks for posting.
OMG the original Hogtown boys, Blair was my idol and yeah I skated with Paul Howe a lot, and once in awhile with Dave Campbell, and the Yap Brothers. Paul was around the Superbowl a lot.
I used to Skate there we come all the way from Rexdale then westwood Skateboard park was built right by my house. And at 12 yrs old I got a to be on The westwood park team and was given pro Athlete status so I could work there and teach lessons coolest job I ever had Blair and Paul from Canadian Sims team made friends with us and took us to a few secret spots a Pool A set of Full pipes and a few cool bank spots around the southern Ontario area great times
amazing video. i wish more home videos like this would resurface. awesome history. I've actually seen pictures of that park before. whre was it located around??
It was at the corner of Midland and Lawrence.
moulded my youth there. skated it from day one til the final days.
remember the death bowl(?) at the North West corner of the park.
must have been 12 feet deep and poorly designed with plastic coping.
started with a Cal 240 and worked my way up to a wee Willie Winkel with ACS trucks and red krypts.
bought it at Rudy's skateboard shop on Eglinton West.
also a place at Yonge and Finch and the Dupont skateshop
spent most of my time at Markham skatepark.
got back into skateboarding a couple of years ago at 49 years of age.
live around the corner from Vanderhoof skatepark in Leaside
Been to all those places
Tim Lindsay I remember this park quit well. I had a Santa Cruz board with tracker trucks and bones wheels. Seems like yesterday.
AH yes the WWW. I tested prototype snowboards with ( Chris?) Sims, Willie and Blair at Blue Mountain, all wood board with leash around 79??
I have an 8mm film sitting at home in Vancouver that I shot as a high school project which shows the Markham skate park with the best skaters of the time. Some of the people mentioned below may be in it. I should get it transferred at some point.
Would look to see I spent 8 hours a day Sat & Sun every weekend there
Still waiting for your 8mm footage
Did I never reply to you? If so apologies. Here it is: th-cam.com/video/jpiRl_0eEFg/w-d-xo.html
Greg C. Smith broke my leg at this park 40 years ago. Great times they were.
Yes I skated there, weird coping and funny tight pool with useless unskateable snake runs. However I have heard that the park still exists under the flooring of that building. If you could remove the floor it is still there!! Check it out!!!
Listen the transitions in the half -pipe were so bad and the snake run needed real vertical, the rest of the park was a joke...but yes it would be fun to skate today.;-)
Ahh yes, Blair Conway and the Hogtown boys of T.O. lore.
Actually by the time I was working there, those boys had moved on to Westwood, or Markham. Yes, the Yap brothers, Gibson, Dave Shaw, and maybe Paul Gibson might show up once every few months but not enough skate-able vertical, none really. I wish I had more footage.
Yes, my Bro Lee was a rubber boy and he never really got hurt, lucky for him. ;-)
Nice!
Great video dudes!! B¬)
hey, in the beginning was Lee alright
Yeah he was fine, I just told him to hold still while I shot the aftermath, he just rolled down after hooking up his back wheels/trucks.
I used to skate there and I worked at Westwood skatepark
Nice your park had real vertical, way smoother transitions and gnarly coping, used to knock my feet of my board going over it. I remember, nick name, Gorilla man, riding there, he had a wide stance and my friends called him that, he was also a bigger man, more muscular.
Yes, that's right and if you were brave enough you could chance the death dogs and burgers I personally might have 'pseudo-nuked' in a high powered convection oven. Yes and as I have already said, apparently the Skateboard City still exists under some thin flooring and carpet. I actually only live about ten blocks from that ole skate park.. Darrien lake was the first skate park I skated in, I think, 78?
is it still there?
Who is Paul Gibson
@jettrun superbowl its awesome i wish i could go back to the 70s
Weedman you and I both.
do you still skate??
I got an electric skateboard 3 years ago, got bored. I bought an EUC and ride in the banks at skateparks but no more bowls or half pipes. Love trail riding on my EUC though.
Crappy??? Thanks to Darryl Griff (Rubber Man) for getting this park built at all...even if it didn't satisfy everyone's dream. I was scouting and skating Drain Banks, any ramp looking asphalt surface, under bridges, and even Darien Lake and Fun Country with Blair and Dave and Paul and all the other awesome goofballs of the day...What an F'n era, wouldn't trade it for anything.
Does anyone know where those guys are anymore?
Omg Rubber Man I forgot about him!!
T. A. was king and I was skating at a demo with a lame Canadian skate team when we brought him to skate with us. He RIPPED, we looked like little kids.....
Funnier was skating with Ty Page, Ty who?? who was a kickflip master and loved to power drop off things like vans... he also had a TY slide signature full on move.... ahhh the beginnings of street skating...
Rhett Morita ah yes.... the ty slide. Took me a month to master that.
Awesome video of that park