I skated with Shogo several times here, he was one of the NICEST guys

I'm glad someone captured on video this classic example of 70's vert skating.

I was 6 when this came out and I saw skateboarding going on in front of my house from early as 1975. My brother and his friends tearing it up.we moved to Ventura from the valley My new home had aloha skate town right down the street from my house. That's when I realized skateboarding was on for me!Sadly it closed by the time I was tall enough to skate. Great mems tho watching the big kids kill it. This video is so great. Thanks for posting. I still skate btw. Keep shredding

So much fun riding that park way back when... \m/

Make the world a better place, hug a skateboarder ♥️.

I remember Jerry being my next door neighbor in Echo Park.

Thanks for posting this! My buds and I were here every friggin' weekend! Got to see Shogo and some of the other Z-Boys skate. It was awesome, but intimidating for a little 12 year old trying to be like Shogo! End of an era when they finally closed it. It was buried under the Carriage Square Cinema for years. Now I'm back in Oxnard after ten years in AZ and I hardly recognize the place. Always thought Tony Hawk should come out with a game that featured all the old parks...Good times, good times..

@wendyb2438

8 жыл бұрын

Not exactly buried under the cinema. It was behind it, in an alley surrounded by avocado orchards. Later, it was torn out to put in the road that is there now and the strip mall next to it. My brother used to skate there all the time. That is my dad's blue station wagon with wood panel driving through a scene. He worked at the Post Office at the west end of that alley. It's bonkers how much Oxnard has changed and I feel old saying..."back in the day..." all the time.

@BigSkippy1263

8 жыл бұрын

+Wendy B we would jump the fence they put around it right after they closed it

@wendyb2438

8 жыл бұрын

+BigSkippy1263 Sometimes I watched my brother and his friends skate but never thought to bust out my little Kodak Instamatic. Just memories - thank goodness for the internet.

I remember endless repeats of frontside grinds in that pool.

NICE ONE SCOTTY! Love ya hope you are well. - Neggie R.I.P. ShoGo, Jay, PB all of em.

I skated there too

I met this legend in vegas coolest guy ever.

haha i love how they are playing ELP in the background

Wow what a inspirational skatepark nothing more amazing than a good pool unfortunately the kids got too hurt at those parks and the got filled in with dirt or cement

In the past originally more skaters were goofy and backside to be frontside and regular was considered to be different

Todays skaters wouldn't last 2 minutes in those tight transitions.

Skaten to ELP LOL those were the days...

my hood Oxnard 😀 there's a burger King there now😣

@pedro55845

4 жыл бұрын

Now there's a car wash and a lows Burger King is still there. crazy how the skate park was torn down to build a cinema then that was torn down to build a parking lot later turn car wash lol

@dennisanderson1396

4 жыл бұрын

45 years and we all still crave it

To jerry Valdez where is Heather Baer?

this is Skateboard Kings isnt it

I always loved "having the guts to eat shit." So Jerry Valdez was responsible for that travesty of a half pipe? Over vertical walls with 3' of transition!

dude i'm his nephew no lie.