Lincoln City 3
Paul sent me this link: They are building another bowl in Lincoln City.
I drove up there this morning and got lucky, sort of. I got to see them working on the new pool - but Red didn’t want me filming for some reason. 
I was all set up and rolling, getting some good footage and all of a sudden he was yelling at me to stop. Guess he didn’t feel like being on camera. /shrug Maybe if I looked more like one of the 6 or 8 punk skaters hanging around watching…?
They were right in the middle of spraying concrete so there was no time to try and explain myself. I just packed up and went to skate Waldport. 
The bowl looked pretty sweet, tho. Kind of like the Mickey Mouse bowl in Brookings, but with a set of stairs in one of the ‘ears’. It is right next to the street side of the Cradle.
December 10th, 2005 at 4:50 am
Damn… I hae not being in the vids…!!!!
So, I understand you leaving afer Red got Agro, but, it is a public park and if I was still working for the local paper.. with no more credentials than you .. I would I forced the issue1
I skated West Linn for 30 minutes today before work… with the Skull and Bones board and soft wheels. It had been almost 3 months since I last skated there. This guy Tom (our age with a girfriend “learning” in camo pants) was killin boardslides, feebles and 50-50s in the deep end. When he finally pulled a tail slide where I come of the corner 50-50, he left. He told me he saw the Pier Park plans… “20-foot full pipe with 11 to 12 ‘ deep”
Less than 15 minutes away before the end of next July!!! Dreamland baby!!!
I would have forced the issue with Red.. you got rep now buddy.. use it!
December 10th, 2005 at 5:03 am
Oh yeah… my “t” is not working ha well… if you ge my poin..?
Pablio’s birhday nigh ou Jan. 39h! Sinferno Cabere… pleaz come!
December 11th, 2005 at 12:24 pm
thats pretty shitty calling the locals punks hope you meant it in a good way right don’t be a hater.maybe you looked like you were from cali or something, maybe you don’t know that not everything needs to be documented digitally for your “homies” so the can see how extreme you rock the casbah…..
December 11th, 2005 at 12:53 pm
WEll.. I did mean punks in a good way, and I’m not hatin. I have a lot of respect for the LC locals - and any punk skaters who just go for it and skate aggressivly. I was really just making a joke about how I don’t really look like I skate - 38 year old, big dude, hawaiin shirt….
I was just surprised and dissapointed by the whole thing. I’m just trying to share all of the Oregon concrete goodness with the people who WISH they could be here to see it and ride it. There are people all over the country- probably the world - who would be psyched to see some pictures or video of a new project in LC.
>> so the can see how extreme you rock the casbah…..
Whatever. If you actually took a look at the rest of our site you’d see that we really just love skateboarding and are trying to spread the word. If I was trying to prove how ‘extreme’ I was I probably would have just kept filming - or posted the video that I took before the crew asked me to stop. The last thing I would want to do is bother those guys while they’re working.
December 12th, 2005 at 11:41 am
don if you are that big dude that skates around the parks whos HUGE. I mean,BIG I”ve seen you skate & you rip.sorry about the extreme comment.this is a killer site & I have too told people all over about (Az. hawaii,washington) wall of gray.I was just kinda weirded out that you didn’t understand why your documentation wasn’t recieved well.don’t worry you’llget the photos out before anyone else just lets create then skate…….did you ever ride LC’s original ghetto bowl? it was in the same area but surrounded by trees if you want to see how far reds come see if you can turn up some photos of that place 10 yrs or so ago it had aparking block spine & so much graffiti it was slick…keep up the kill work
December 12th, 2005 at 12:02 pm
Cool, man.
Thanks for spreading the word about the Wall of Gray.
Not sure if I am HUGE but I am huge by skater standards. hehe
I really wasn’t too upset about being aksed to stop filming, just surprised cuz no-one’s ever done it in 4 years that I’ve been taking photos and video.
>> did you ever ride LC’s original ghetto bowl?
No I never got a chance - I moved here after it was torn down. Pablito got a chance to ride it, tho. He might even have some photos - if he can find ‘em. I don’t know if I’ve ever even seen a pic of the old park.
December 12th, 2005 at 3:12 pm
Damn… the baner on this channell is almost over-whelming! It’s not like LC #3 is some secret-spot… reminds me of the shit I got from the surfers when I got to town…. It’s part of what makes skaters cooler than surfers… we welcome brothers!!
December 13th, 2005 at 9:34 pm
Hehe. At least it’s not just you and me talking back and forth as usual
lol
So do you have any photos of the old Lincoln City, Paul? I know you skated it…
December 13th, 2005 at 11:49 pm
No photos… If I was lucky my aunt might have one in the archives… but highly unlikely. That was like seventh grade. But yeah… I skated it!
December 14th, 2005 at 8:45 am
hmm. Oh well. I did ask Steph about that picture of Geth on the Tombstone in LC, but she has not seen it. I think I already have almost very picture that they do…Maybe I can find a pic of the old LC on the web…
December 14th, 2005 at 5:37 pm
I know Geth told me he had that photo of him on the Tombstone…. man, I would love to have that for my archives!!!
91 hours on this pay period…. what the?
January 25th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Skated the new pool at Lincoln City yesterday. It is so rad. A new favorite for sure. I skated with some of the dudes that helped build it and they were totally cool. Don’t know if you noticed but there are lights in the pool. The glass blocks in the tile work have lights in them. If you bring a generator and some extension cords, the night session is on.
January 25th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Nice! THe lighted glass blocks sound really cool. Cant’ wait to check em out.
>> some of the dudes that helped build it
Cool. It’s fun to skate with the people who actually built a park. There seems to have been a lot of locals volunteering the day I was there.
January 26th, 2006 at 3:27 am
Damn… I need to find a way to get down to LC (if it ever gets dry enough again!)!
January 27th, 2006 at 10:42 am
Here’s a pic from Tuesday. You can see the glass blocks in the tile. The total cash outlay on this project was under $9K. The city donated the land and Dreamland with the help of the locals did the ‘crete. I’m still ridin’ the high from skatin’ this thing.
http://www.sonicray.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=2&pos=4
January 28th, 2006 at 10:55 am
Sweet! Thanks for link - cool panoramas! Can’t wait for another pause in the rainstorms so I can go skate that sucker.
February 3rd, 2006 at 1:11 pm
I can’t believe tha I have missed opening month! I was there for opening day for the last two! I want to go over those stairs, go over the light, ride the tile and grind the copping! All in one run!!!
http://www.policygov.com/skate/LC3-12306.mov
February 3rd, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Thanks for the video link! Sweet, sweet sweet.
Maybe we can meet up in LC next week? The forcast is actually showing a couple days of no rain. Like Tuesday Wed…
http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USOR0197.html
February 4th, 2006 at 11:30 am
I wish I could, except I have no car! Seems the Po-Po in Puddletown are required to impound your vehicle if you can’t show proof of insurance. Guess I was real lucky that one day with you!
Maybe I should buy a motorcycle? I wonder if I could take the casino ferry?
February 5th, 2006 at 10:50 am
Yo Pablito,
You are welcome to car pool to LC. I am thinking about a trip mid-week while the weather is good. You can email me at rich.burton@imagine-labs.com as well if you are interested.
February 5th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Thanks for the offer Rich! I have Monday and Tuesday off this month (Feb.). I’ll e-mail you with my phone number and see if we can work anything out…
February 5th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
Shit I fotgot about the lack of vehicle. Well If you can’t make it down I might just have to come and get ya. ‘b cool if Rich could give you a lift, too.
March 26th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
I also agree with that point of view. I mean why else would it be that way. Good stuff!
April 7th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Have you ever been to ‘you tube’? they let you host videos there and you can hotlink them on your blogs. it’s really cool and you don’t have to bandwidth on the videos, cause its free.
April 9th, 2006 at 11:28 pm
Yeah, I have been thre many times. I even post a few of my videos there - and I have been meaning to put them all up there for people who can’t view my Quicktime files. Thanks for the reminder.