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Title: I really should get out more....
Post by: WizardWeb on September 22, 2009, 12:38 PM
Having too much time on my hands, I've taken to looking up famous BMX places on Google earth, inevitably there's a load that probably aren't there anymore and it's sad what happened to them...

http://wikimapia.org/1896485/Del-Mar-Skate-Ranch-site

So aside from addresses found in the downloads from http://oldschoolmags.com/index.html , I can't find an address for the old Pipeline Skatepark in Upland. there's a new one ( http://www.socalskateparks.com/park/Upland ) that's not as good and I don't think it's on the site of the old one. I think it was a few blocks over near the sports ground. Although that's just a guess. Anyone got the address or went there in the 80's and remembers...?

Any one else taken up this sad hobby?  :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: I really should get out more....
Post by: ED209 on September 24, 2009, 08:55 PM
 52°23'4.36"N
 0°42'35.44"W

Wicksteed Park in Kettering...

Concrete heaven turned f**king carpark. R.I.P. I will ride you again in heaven...or somewhere hotter.

 :'(

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/159924675_3a5d198334_o.jpg)
Title: Re: I really should get out more....
Post by: ED209 on September 24, 2009, 09:22 PM
Livingstone!

55°53'15.09"N
3°30'40.49"W
Title: Re: I really should get out more....
Post by: telelogic on September 24, 2009, 09:26 PM
I was gutted when they pulled down the pipeline! that place looked scary :D
Title: Re: I really should get out more....
Post by: kirk on October 02, 2009, 10:06 AM
I drove past Del Mar Skateranch on the I5 just the other day, its now a fun park and golf course  :(

I have tons of wicksteed photos, but no scanner  :(
Title: Re: I really should get out more....
Post by: sweetbeats on October 02, 2009, 10:20 AM
Pipeline blew me away when I seen it in Freestylin' for the 1st time...I seen some overhead shots of it recently and the place looked HUGE  :shocked:
Title: Re: I really should get out more....
Post by: Tim38 on October 04, 2009, 09:32 AM
this site is good for  this
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/search/?cx=partner-pub-9765959110898159%3Aliduc9jj2sn&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=ISO-8859-1&t=combined&q=skatepark&sa=Search
Title: Re: I really should get out more....
Post by: ED209 on October 04, 2009, 06:51 PM
I've got a scanner and no pictures of Wicksteed...  :)

In the mean time... Wallows! ... just realised this is kind of a skatespot and I'm on a BMX site but old habits die hard... which is why I'm here.

Anyway... big drainage ditch that runs along way down a hill in Hawaii... WALLOWS

21°17'20.13"N
157°44'22.55"W

...and if you have no idea what the f*ck I'm on about...
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4 minutes and 45 seconds in...
Title: Re: I really should get out more....
Post by: hotdog on November 04, 2009, 12:52 PM
1777 West Arrow Hwy, Upland, Ca.
No social life :-[
Title: Re: I really should get out more....
Post by: MartyC on November 04, 2009, 03:23 PM
I've got a scanner and no pictures of Wicksteed...  :)

In the mean time... Wallows! ... just realised this is kind of a skatespot and I'm on a BMX site but old habits die hard... which is why I'm here.

Anyway... big drainage ditch that runs along way down a hill in Hawaii... WALLOWS

21°17'20.13"N
157°44'22.55"W

...and if you have no idea what the f*ck I'm on about...
/>
4 minutes and 45 seconds in...


It was featured in The Search for Animal Chin; a Powell Peralta skate movie in the late 80's  :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: I really should get out more....
Post by: ED209 on November 10, 2009, 01:10 PM
I've got a scanner and no pictures of Wicksteed...  :)

In the mean time... Wallows! ... just realised this is kind of a skatespot and I'm on a BMX site but old habits die hard... which is why I'm here.

Anyway... big drainage ditch that runs along way down a hill in Hawaii... WALLOWS

21°17'20.13"N
157°44'22.55"W

...and if you have no idea what the f*ck I'm on about...
/>
4 minutes and 45 seconds in...


It was featured in The Search for Animal Chin; a Powell Peralta skate movie in the late 80's  :daumenhoch:

exactly... check the link I put in...
:angel:
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