Downhill Skating

Back in about January, I put up a post about Skateboarding. In that post I mentioned that I had some pictures around here of me skating on Coronado Street in Ocean Beach (San Diego) in the late 70's.

Well, today was clean out the dresser day. In that effort, I FOUND THE PICTURES!:

That's me up front and my brother and his brother-in-law in the background towards the top of the hill. They shared a great house at the top of the hill, so this was just something to do to blow off steam at halftime watching the Chargers, or just when we felt like it.

There were always cars parked along the street, much like there is now I'm sure. Either way, it was great fun. I had a favorite move which was to come as close as I could to the back of a car and make my cut-back off the left rear bumper:

Apparently this was before we discovered gloves... Sigh. I miss those days. That was just a lot of fun. I didn't fall on this one above by the way. Also, if you could see my socks, they matched the shoes, yellow and black stripped. Very cool. ;)

Skating

I used to skateboard more when I was younger. Like I surf a pseudo-longboard now, when I skate, I have a long board too.

Somewhere in this house, there is a picture of me riding down Coronado St. in O.B. This was something like, 1978 or 1980. I can't find it, but when I do, I'll post it up. For now, here's another picture about the same time period - skating in Ramona Estates before the streets were crowed. Hell, before the streets were actaully used by cars...













Anyway, I saw this:

glumbert - Rollersuit in the Swiss Alps

It took me back. Okay, well, it's not the same, but, kinda...