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Title: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: bmxer4ever on July 02, 2008, 12:02 AM
Aileen found this in the Evening Times (Glasgow paper) recently - thought I'd share.

What bikes can you see, 'cos I'm sure there's a Gen 1 in there.....

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/k48/2ndChildhood/Kelvingrove%20Skatepark/etjune082.jpg)

and here's the write up to go with it...

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/k48/2ndChildhood/Kelvingrove%20Skatepark/etjune083.jpg)
Title: Re: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: JAY on July 02, 2008, 12:10 AM
Thanks for sharing......great seeing stuff like that.
Title: Re: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: CD17 on July 02, 2008, 06:42 AM
Yeah thats a great shot, the one with the Black Tuffs could be a Gen 1  :-\

Looks like a few Mongeese there  :)
Title: Re: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: bmxer4ever on July 02, 2008, 07:03 PM
I thought there were a few Diamondbacks...?
Title: Re: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: Sean 2000 on July 02, 2008, 09:14 PM
A few gnarly 80's jumpers (of the knitted variety) there aswell i see  ;D

Kool pic man, bmx nostalgia is the best kind.

Sean.  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: phantom photon on July 02, 2008, 09:24 PM
I went there a few times in 83'ish on my Ammaco  :)
Title: Re: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: bmxer4ever on July 02, 2008, 09:50 PM
I went there a few times in 83'ish on my Ammaco  :)

Really? Wow - it's all filled in now (concrete rimmed flowerbeds!), but mostly still there apart from the halfpipe which got demolished a good few years ago after folk tried to dig it out!
Do you know what bit this dude is riding? It looks like the back of one of the bowls, rather than a planned part of the park.
My mate Stevie - oldschoolrider - went there early eighties too. It was filled in by the time I got to see it leaving just the skate rink which is where I rode for years 'til they built the new park on the site. Now I ride that!
Title: Re: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: phantom photon on July 02, 2008, 11:00 PM
Yeah, I was there a few months ago and it's all gone  :'(
Don't recognise/remember where that pic was taken.
Title: Re: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: oldschool rider on July 05, 2008, 01:01 AM
I went there a few times in 83'ish on my Ammaco  :)

Really? Wow - it's all filled in now (concrete rimmed flowerbeds!), but mostly still there apart from the halfpipe which got demolished a good few years ago after folk tried to dig it out!
Do you know what bit this dude is riding? It looks like the back of one of the bowls, rather than a planned part of the park.
My mate Stevie - oldschoolrider - went there early eighties too. It was filled in by the time I got to see it leaving just the skate rink which is where I rode for years 'til they built the new park on the site. Now I ride that!

Well I'll need to see if i can dig out a pic or two of our famous flower pots in Kelvingrove.....
Title: Re: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: oldschool rider on July 05, 2008, 01:03 AM
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/kk107/oldschoolrider_2008/Image00003.jpg)
Title: Re: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: oldschool rider on July 05, 2008, 01:04 AM
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/kk107/oldschoolrider_2008/Image00004.jpg)


Such a waste !!!!!!!!!!

These Pictures were taken a few years ago on one of my trips back to Glasgow around Xmas / Newyear time.
Title: Re: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: bmxer4ever on July 05, 2008, 01:26 PM
On that second pic, you can see them building the new park on the right...
I wonder if the old b&w pic was someone riding the back of a bowl, or was that in the halfpipe? Way undervert if it was!
Title: Re: Kelvingrove Skatepark 1983
Post by: oldschool rider on July 05, 2008, 11:52 PM
On that second pic, you can see them building the new park on the right...
I wonder if the old b&w pic was someone riding the back of a bowl, or was that in the halfpipe? Way undervert if it was!

Not too sure gary, but if my memory serves me right their was 2 runs the "Kamakazi" and the "Bazooka" one went left and the other went right and i think that is what is now the flower beds. All i really remember is my green skinny plastic sk8 board and falling on my ass alot......... thank god for bmx.
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