Cool. I wasn’t going mad then. I did skate Meanwhile II when it had the two sections and, whenever that was, Edgware was still intact. Cheers.
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Pleasure.
Stuck at home so always keen for some concrete sleuthing.
Yeah, the triples frontside rock photo (Hartsel, Danforth and John Thomas) was on one of the two 80° quarterpipes at Lockleaze Skatepark. I’ve posted it on @rockandrollclub before so can probably find it there.
Planet Rock is the curved quarter around the corner at The Deaner. It was called that becasue someone spray painted “Planet Rock” on it - presumably Afrika Bambaataa fans!
I think @buildafire posted a lovely Spex ollie on it a few days ago on @scienceversuslife
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I’ve got a travel trunk full of issues of Skateboard! and some other randoms, (the odd Poweredge, Edge surf skate mag.). The RADs, Thrashers, Transworlds, BMX mags, (Action Bike, Invert etc) are all stashed elsewhere at the moment. Inspired to have a dig on through the contents of the trunk tomorrow now though.
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Triples frontside rock n rolls at Lockleaze…
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Aye, that’s the puppy.
Do it!
Just realised that the mags I’ve just posted are 33 years old!
Someone call Puleo
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you need the post url for it to embed boss
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My god I used to know how to do all the stuff! Now I can’t even download pirate videos!
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Overview of Lockleaze shwoing the capsule, the “competition bowl” and the two quarters from the FS rock photo in the background…
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I know I have some really early copies of Thrasher tucked away. They’re probably in better nick than a lot of the later ones. It’s weird reading them back and knowing them almost word for word and the layout after all this time.
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Just had further intel on the Norwich one (with more on the way).
Imagine this all WRITTEN IN CAPITALS
‘Used to be two pieces joined together but was split and the other half went to another park in Norwich. Then had a transit van driven into it and set on fire. Totally fucked the other bit. It was just a mess of wire and crete when I last saw it, I will try and find out more from old Norfolk heads. Are you doing history lessons?’
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Lockleaze capsule, I think soon after being built. See those scratch marks in the concrete onto breeze blocks? I always assumed that had been added on years later (I probably first skated it in about 86?) but looks like they just botched it as they were building it!
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nice to see you mate x
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I was going to say I thought there was originally two halves! He’s the Capo di Tutti Caps Lock!
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@pigdog237 keep contributing! This is solid.
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Ah - I misunderstood the Kennington/Vauxhall thing … but it does sounds like Vauxhall could have been the other half of Penfold Street/Edgware Road. If two sides ended up at Meanwhile 2, there’d still be two sides spare!
To answer your question… in the early days, I recall the standout thing about Kennington/Meanwhile 2 were the transitions as much as the surface. We were used to some dodgy transitions elsewhere, even in the commercial parks. Meanwhile 2 was/is kind of narrow - but no more so than other places of the time, so it worked.
I’m not convinced the Lincolnshire/Norfolk parks being mentioned are Radical Banking or were transferred from London though… there were a couple of companies doing similar things, some with reinforced fiberglass. See this 1978 article from Skateboard magazine issue 11 page 068
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Terrible photo I know but it’s the only one I could find. It’s of part of a 70’s park underneath the promenade at Hastings. It was built on the site of an old swimming pool complex and bathhouse. It now houses The Source indoor park - and the old 1970s concrete has gone. If anyone’s interested, I posted the documentary of the build in the documentary thread.
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Looks amazing.
Embedded for sake of posterity.
I see Nike’s marketing team were there bitd too dropping their ‘Elite Team’ tag into the mix…
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Dave “Spex” Haggerty lofting over the original Planet Rock at Dean Lane…
He had a photo in Thrasher on Planet Rock too, but I can’t find it.
Here’s Spex grinding the “competition bowl”, which is nuts. The coping was made of rough concrete and was about two inches out and if you imagine an inverted egg, that’s how the transitions were in that thing. Not just no flat bottom, but a sharp angle instead of a smooth curve.
There’s an amazing photo of Jef Hartsel griding it too - I think it’s probably in those pics above Anon just posted.
Here’s a photo I shot of Jef doing a layback rollout on the old Deaner quarterpipe. You can see the metal surface and WOODEN coping!! It actually grinded surprisingly well.
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