santa cruz skateboard 70s

[3535kevin]

we used to luge it lol

[3535kevin]

I dont remember completely but I think for a short time there was no burm at the end if you shot too far over it was down to the harbor lol I lived right down the st

[TheRenegaderacer]

@sk8ercisco Well herp to the derp to you to, dipshit. I said I wanted to go back in time to rock those parks, not waste a shit load of time questing the landscape to see if they're still around.

[TheRenegaderacer]

That shit was sick!

I wish I could go back in time so I could rock my BMX on those old school parks.

[smedley]

dont ever ruin this with music. silence is golden.

rad

[RadReport]

Sick!!!

[treacyo]

The shop was Wings or wheels.

I ran it for the owner who was the Hangliding nut.

We used to freestyle in the shop all day and acid drop the sales counter to get people in the shop. Yes Ed Daroza built Soquel skate park with backing from the Smothers Brothers.

The Goat

[rymurder]

man i used to love skateing @ fredric st it was fun to run around on the old wooden play structure with the big net...to be a kid good times....

[dnltsn]

great stuff!!!

[Doderkiller3]

that track is soo cool

[thebenm]

Frederick Street was built in part because Sally Digiralimo was mayor then, and we were all friends with Danny Digiralimo, and we kidnapped him and wouldn't bring him back until his mom promised to build a skatepark. The beginning of the end was when Lee Moulton leapt over the hay-bales - or maybe it was those wood stumps - on roller skates and broke the #@%@# out of his wrist. It was a simple run, but a lot of fun.

[milesclouse]

i wish i was alive back then, fredrick street is soo beat up now, and now there's a park so there's always little kids runnin around in there. :(

[tdcollector]

man i was born in the wrong generation. i really like oldschool skating more than newschool. Today's stuff is to technical and complicated... Oldschool skating has way more style and fluency.

[wolfGoCrazy]

your dad rocks :D

[dylansutubething]

great before the skating went bad

[rudidower]

fantastic ! i love watching old skateboarding footage. I think it's important if you skate to know something of the history of the sport and how it went down back in the 70's. I started skating in '89 in Aberdeen, Scotland and believe me that was a bad time for the sport then. Lots of people hating you and calling you a kid for skating and absolutely no provision made by the local council for any kind of park let alone just a ramp. It kept all the skaters tight though and we had to just D.I.Y it

[dbei66]

Killer Video, I skated there when I was a kid. I thought I'd never see that again.

[rctrue]

THIS IS SICK

[xyab9]

This is the Frederick Street Park before they filled in the lower half. This was one of the very first parks built by a City (1976) If you notice, they had no clue how to build a park. Notice the wood pilings along the run. At the bottom you will notice hay bails in the video. Before the hay bales were placed there, they had wood pilings. Kids were getting creamed at the bottom.

How do I know? I shot some of this video of my friends Randy Hansen and Mark Plache. Ed daRoza

[rctrue]

YOU ARE A PIONEER THAN MY FRIEND

[xyab9]

Thanks. It was a blast. Waking up at 7AM for an early morning skate, then hitting the surf. Ahh, those good ole surfin days.............Ed

[nicksplant]

this is so fucking cool

cheers man

[osmarwilder1]

solo queria ver si ya puedo comentar! ajajaj SIP.. efectivamente ya puedo comentar...

jejej

[dannypunkass]

does anyone know exactly where this is in santa cruz?

[chillingsc22]

I think this is at the old Fredrick st Park. Before they built the Park and changed the bowl.

[theBlogCam]

that looks like loads of fun, i want to go there now, tho its prob just a grassy hill or carpark now..

[blastoise0poliwrath]

get em from momentum a great store they sell old school new school and school so go to ur nearest momentum store located in freamantle so come there today

[roflikFBR]

Stacy Peralta YEAH!!!!

[gahooh]

i lol'd

my thoughts exactly

[xyab9]

No not Stacy. Ed daRoza ripping.

[666guitargod666]

dude where is that?!?!

that looks like so much fun to skate

[GunPoor]

I'm going to totally dork out and mention that this park is pictured in "Everybody's Skateboard Book" by Tom Cuthberson (1976) I believe with pictures of Tim Piumarta and Tom Sims skating it.

[SparkeyGreenberg]

Is the spot Natural State Beach/Park?

[yojoe71]

Santa Cruz still makes old school boards so you can buy them on the web

[jthen75]

Where Can You Get One of Those???

[skatepyt]

i love old skateboarding this the kind of history i want to be taught at school

[Xxsniper18xX]

dude old school kills new school skating by far! new school is just so complicated. Old school is all your personal style and new school as all the complicated things u have to learn. if u new how to ride a board back in them days u were good. i wanna go back in time and skate the pools but i cant btw i am 13 but i know lots bout skating cuz of my uncle :) i luv old school more than new. peace

[xXOneStepToHellXx]

Soooo true my man!! :)

In my town we skate old school!

You know cruizing and carving and shit like that!

OG FOR LIFE!!!

[RichyRichyRichy123]

i skate old school, fuck new school, everyone does the same shit, but i skate old school, and do shit with my hands, im 13 to, OLD SCHOOL ROCKS

[willmanhi1]

lol im 14 and i boaught an old school pool board yesterrday its soo sweet

ihavnt got grip yet tho

:/

[kaygodogsf]

nah, i've been skating since 86' and skating is what it is. it's fun whatever your doing.

[ocmartz]

it's great to hear kids are into old school. i skated in the mid to late 80s and quit until recently. now i have a new school board and a 77 alva reissue old school cruiser. you really can't appreciate old school skating until you try it.

[KingAnime101]

@Xxsniper18xX lol metoo my mom was a pro back then in SC she was known as the "Black Bee Land Surfer" yup nd she is black nd she still has the banana board

[flipoutitsfay]

My step-dad used to skate at Frederick Street park when he was younger.

We went there the other day, and he tried to skate, it was pretty comical.

[xyab9]

Cool that he still tries though................

[railslide70s]

WOW!!!!!

Yep, I can make ya one.... if you are interested..?

Tazboarder, email me if you serious! I'll check out for randoms... or check this vid again!

and probly again and again. . . . .woooooow , So cool!

[snapcraklpop259]

dog ur dad pwns

mine dont skate but he plays paintball with me XD

[iamjasonlol]

that looks so fun

[ilosk8alex]

nice!

[shanesparks]

Pure Awesomeness! Thanks for posting!

[DopeSick408]

Dude this is awesome ur lucky to have a rad dad

[SantaCruzMedia]

Ahhh. I used to skate at fredrick's parkwhen I was a kid. Now I take my kids there. I thought I rembered the slope and bowl diferent than it is now a dayz.

Thanks for posting the footage.

Add some tunes to the video...

[zdene]

SO GOOD! i like old school!

[ieatbabies12]

hey anyone know where i can get one of those boards?

[chickaberga2]

try ebay

[JGordonskimboards]

Hey is that guy with the long blonde hair named Ed? It looks like the guy that owned Soquel Skate Park. Back then I made skateboards, but now I only make skims....=(

[liberate1]

yep, he's my dad. Ed Daroza. o

[ChurchOfSkaten]

@JGordonskimboards I had a J Gordon board that I bought at your shop, it was at the end of Thompson ave.

I had Tracker Trucks and white Sims Snakes on it,.....Wish I still had it !!

[xpanchitobodmodx]

the first guy remember me at the great stacy peralta

[skateronguitar]

my dad said he used to do that...looks fun...i still like riverbank bowl tho...lol

[throwpie]

This weekend, I found the drainage ditch I was talking about near the Rio Del Mar off ramp. It's still there, though pretty funky. Before skate parks, it was the place to be. We're talking 30 years ago! The big hill we cruised on was Mar Monte, on the way to Watsonville.

[thehip2007]

Looking forward to the Soquel vids, how about Winchester in Campbell? My first place of employment when I was 16!

[xyab9]

STAY TUNED. THERE'S MORE TO COME. MY BACKYARD PARK AND THEN SKATEPARK SOQUEL. ALL 1970s.

[SharpBalisong]

Flippin' cool!! This is some historical footage!

[llv2board]

Bringin me back, Thanks! We used to go there everyday. Back when Wind, Waves and Wheels was THE shop down on the mall.....remember? We used to skate down that run going tandem with a friend, No shoes, long hair and NO WORRIES at all, except having your mom come to pick you up to early. Anyone have a time machine?

Post more!!!!

[ChurchOfSkaten]

@llv2board I'm pretty sure that the shop on Pacific was called "Wings and Wheels" and from what I remember, they sold hang gliders and Skateboards.

[throwpie]

Wow! I forgot about this place. I only skated it a few times because I think we had moved to San Francisco by the time it opened. I lived in Erueka canyon in the early 70s and we skated a drainage ditch near the freeway on the way to santa cruz. What was the name of that thing?  Also, a smooth (then) road...Rio Del Mar I think it was called. Crusin on our Road Riders! I'm an old fart these days..58! how did that happen?

[thehip2007]

haha its still there and skateable, we called it the Pit.

[mabel12785]

awesome....this is so much cooler than what guys do today.....

[NoComonSense]

sick trucks, what kind?

[xyab9]

Independent and road rider wheels.

[xyab9]

Independent and road rider wheels.

[thebrendanlaney]

pure gnar

[mtnbikrrrr]

this is awesome. thanks for sharing it. (a fellow 70's skater from the valley)

[thehip2007]

And Soquel too! Anybody know if Soquel is still there under the dirt?

[xyab9]

Yes it is. It is now a nursery, but you can go and still see the back wall of the half pipe. As soon as I get around to it I will post some of my Skatepark Soquel videos. Key words will be Soquel Skatepark, Santa Cruz Skateboarding 1970s, daRoza. 1977-1980. Ed

[thehip2007]

Skated this thing in the 70's, almost forgot about it! Thanks for the memories! Shredwell

[xyab9]

Now for the true Santa Cruz history on skateparks. Fredrick St was Santa Cruz's first skatepark (1976) My backyard park in Pleasure Point was the second (1976) as seen in Skateboarder magazine. Then came my Soquel Skatepark in 1977, again Skateboarder magazine. Derby park showed up in 1978 and was NOT Santa Cruz's first park. Never was and never will be. Stay tuned for more up coming videos of my backyard park and my Soquel park. We were the dogtown boys of cruz. Ed

[jeffah]

Eddie, your backyard park was the SHIT! I used to barge there with Steve, or even on my own (Ed said it was O.K.). Fredrick Street was fun with my 4 foot water ski board. The Dog Boys were a HUGE influence.

Jeff Diehl

[jeffah]

Eddie, I used to barge your backyard park all the time with Stevie (and sometimes by myself,"really Kim, Ed said it was O.K."). Ripping Fredrick on my 4 1/2 foot waterski/skate was good times as well. I also skated Soquel quite a few times. I hope you consider this Valley as on of the Dog Boys of CRUZ.

Jeff Diehl

[anklers]

Thirdwave........... this park was before empty pools and before vertical anything

these guys were pioneers

and the learning curve was progressing really fast at this time

i remember doing four wheel slides on the bottom first turn here

hey we spawned the X Games

[anklers]

Dude i am 49 years old and live in Seattle now

but i Skated here with my friends

on my metal bonzai with road rioder 4 wheels

brought tears to my eyes

why do they say that derby park was first??

[markluna1]

This vid needs music but i fuckin like 70s a skating

[ThirdWaveJake]

how could they be stupid enogh not to grind the top of the ramps its not that hard of a concept

[sk8librarian]

Now..that is a dumbass thing to say. Using that logic, why don't babies come out the womb talking and walking??? The reason is that it takes time to evolve...

[dogtron]

You don't and cannot have a clue. NOBODY had ever ridden on a thing with wheels and no handlebars.