One of the inspirations for my skate ramp/greenhouse project is the Turning Point ramp at Del Mar Skate park active in the lates seventies and early eighties. It's plexiglass and steel and transitions into a full pipe with a vertical bowl capping it off. It is shown here in the beginning of the 1980 skate film by Stacy Peralta, Skateboard Madness. The first part is a silly clay-mation short but past that are some examples of the ramp in use.
I can remember seeing pictures of this ramp when I first started skating at Gary Sullivan's Florida Ocean sports. It started as a Surf shop, then went into motor scooters and then peaked and earned fame for skateboards. Gary was an influential figure, always urging skaters to be positive and use the sport to do awesome things for the community. He also always urged skaters to be up on whatever was hot at the time, but to always take a look at where it all began and take advantage of being in the heart of it all, good ol' sunny Florida. (sidenote: It's like 80 degrees there right now. What i'm doing in the frozen Midwest?)
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