Book of Broken Dreams:Part 4
The BOBD is filled examples of my feeble attempts at photography from yesteryear that never saw the light of day. And an occasional photo that WAS printed but likely slipped under your radar.
Let’s see what we’ve got today.
1. Nate Jones moved to Tampa around the end of the millenium and stuck around for about 1 year. But somehow I manged to end up with more photos of him from this time, than almost anybody else. Here is a front blunt in front of a pawn shop right near the Skatepark of Tampa from about 1999.
2. Some time around 1997-98 I ended up in Atlanta quite often. Back then, there was an empty foundation in the heart of downtown rigged up with ramps,boxes, etc. There was a sick scene of skaters there pretty regularly including Steve Young, Jeremiah Babb, Jay Buck, Graham Bickerstaff, Jed Davis, Stormy Pruett and a skater who’d been killing it since the 80’s, Fred Reeves. I was pretty stoked to get a photo of the dude. Unfortunately, it never ran.
3. Jimmy Chadwick, a Florida native, did the California thing for years and eventually made his way back to his home state around the late millenium. Jimmy was one of those incredibly talented skaters who people never really got a chance to appreciate. This straight nollie at the dog track in Tampa was the tip of the iceberg of his skills.
Is 40 Yard gone?
Comment by Bryan # November 15, 2009 at 10:56 am
Words cannot describe Jay Buck’s excellence. Love! RIP.
Comment by Seabreeze # November 15, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Here we go with the straight nollie thing , dude thats a shifty nollie , sorry …. you wouldnt call a shifty ollie a straght ollie , but i get the drift , he nollied it and landed going forward but shifted the board mid way , ( Nollie shifty ) as far as apreciating Chadwicks skating, i still do , he was a beast ….. Rip Jay Buck . He was a good dude
Comment by Wayne gretsky # November 15, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Jimmy Chadwick nollies a sawhorse
Comment by Theorizer # November 15, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Jimmy is a real ripper. I skated with him in florida and I saw him not skate for a long time and then go destroy a skatepark. noseblunt slide on a big bump to barrier like he never stopped doing them.
Comment by ChrisField # November 15, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Towel I have a question for you. 2 posts down.
Comment by UptonSinclair # November 16, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Jimmy is the man. Lots of power and always hauled ass. It is rare to get a chance to see him skate now, but when you did get a chance to see him fly around the local concrete park it was amazing. Any other Chadwick photos or footage, Theorizer? I’m buddies with Jimmy’s younger brother, and he would be psyched to see them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ubHuD1QuM
Comment by Psyched Floridian # November 17, 2009 at 9:38 pm
..yes but he rode up to the sawhorse straight on. A straight nollie, as in not skating parallel to it, or at an angle. He obviously turned a little, the dude who took the picture isn’t blind. Use that brain Wayne.
Comment by Psyched Floridian # November 17, 2009 at 9:41 pm
jimmy chadwick? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/Lloyd_fester.JPG
Comment by Wino # November 17, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Cellar Bore
Comment by Gangsta shit # November 18, 2009 at 9:18 am
Flatgroud snores
Comment by Gangsta shit # November 18, 2009 at 9:19 am
Ipath whore
Comment by Gangsta shit # November 18, 2009 at 9:19 am
Dipper butt steez galore
Comment by Gangsta shit # November 18, 2009 at 9:20 am
gangster shit mini ramp whore ……
Comment by dipper butt galore # November 18, 2009 at 9:25 am
What?
Comment by Gangsta shit # November 18, 2009 at 9:25 am
Clueless
Comment by Gangsta shit # November 18, 2009 at 9:27 am
How many ideas does it take for captain dipper butt steez to get to the center of a clue.
Comment by Gangsta shit # November 18, 2009 at 9:28 am
This one’s for you Theorizer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEbtEMMlN_8&feature=related
Comment by Seabreeze # November 18, 2009 at 10:30 pm
This one’s for you Fabreeze:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhgiOSgBEYY
Comment by Theorizer # November 18, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Very cool Theorizer! I don’t know if I think that is as ‘ill’ as you think vintage Muska was, but that was hard-hitting and very funny, so hats off!
Comment by Seabreeze # November 19, 2009 at 12:09 am
This place is pretty damn boring without the towel.
Comment by gunter # November 19, 2009 at 12:40 am
Maybe, but I’m saving a FORTUNE on my therapy bills.
Comment by Theorizer # November 19, 2009 at 8:56 am
Tonight Live from the comments section we present: THEORIZER!!
Comment by TongueBath # November 19, 2009 at 11:18 am
I know it’s an unrelated topic, but has anyone been following this whole thing with Steve Berra and dude from Exit in Philly? Pretty epic watching berra get schooled.
http://haveboard.com/the_berrics_unified_pay_to_play/
Comment by Is this a theory ? # November 19, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Can you still skate those barrier things at the dog track?
Comment by joey # November 19, 2009 at 6:33 pm
I believe so…..I think a few of them survived.
Comment by Theorizer # November 19, 2009 at 8:20 pm