Gravity and a few other local companies tried to raise enough money to save the park. DC Shoes stepped up and said they'd cover the rest, then a few weeks later they were bought by Quiksilver and re-negged on the deal. Publicly traded companies.... bleh. DC had a real chance to be heros.
My town has a little tiny skatepark ... but they are planning on expanding it. I went to some of the planning meetings. They are looking to have a bowl or two, but the snake run was decribed as something old guys like to do. So I doubt they will have a snake run.
I skated at the Endless Wave in Oxnard back in the late 70's - before I was an OG - and the snake run was my favorite part of the park!
Yeah, it got 'dozed. Tranny's were still smooth, but the flats were starting to get rough. Keep the high line....
The flat bottoms were rough my first time there in 1989, high lines were always a requirement that I remember. I do miss that flow...damn I need to go down to Maryland and get a snake run fix
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Re: Carlsbad skatepark
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Current skatepark designers should look to Carlsbad for inspiration.
I have a difficult time understanding why only pools and street features are replicated in skateparks. Why not replicate the Carlsbad features in some new skatepark? There are so many other features (snakeruns and moguls to name two) that skateboarders have ridden that are just ignored by skatepark designers.
One big reason would be space. Carlsbad, along with most other 70s parks, was several times larger than the majority of current public parks (averaging about 30,000 to 60,000 square feet). The Carlsbad mogul field alone was bigger than most current skateparks. If you've only got 10,000-12,000 square feet to work with, a pool and street area is a much better use of space.
Also, the mogul field concept wasn't even popular back then. An interesting idea, but the vast majority of skaters just weren't interested in it. I don't know anyone who went out of their way to skate Carlsbad, except in the early days when it was one of the only parks. If it had been a successful concept, I'm sure that other parks would've copied it, but I can't recall any that did. The really successful parks were the ones with the best pools, pipes, and halfpipes. Once vert took over, even snakeruns were ignored, and many later 70s parks usually didn't even bother building them, since they would've just been wasted concrete...
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This will be 5mi from home for me. Still not sure if it is a good idea having the
snake run connected with the bowl and having a skake run without coping.
Carlsbad skatepark
