.... andy's ramp ....

....the older i get the harder time i have
remembering the year of old photos. i'm
guessing this is 1993...i"m riding venture
trucks which i only rode for a short time.
but it might be 1992? It's a slob air but
looks a lot like a regular footed indy nose
bone. Kevin from thrasher
had sent this over months ago and it just
sat on my desktop. I clicked it today and
stared at for a while. At the time this was
taken this ramp was "andys ramp"... but we tore
down "bryces" ramp to get it over to oakland.
after "andys" it became "wiggys" and after that
it became "kevins".... i think we moved it
over from sf in about 91? Now it's josh's place
and it's a different ramp..but it's been a skatespot
for almost 20years. I knocked my self out on the vert
part of it real good one time... out cold, twitching
and talking to myself on the flat bottom. MRI to
the brain. Cardiel jumped through the rafters and
Curtis died there... another dude tied a noose to
his neck and was going to attempt suicide by
rolling into the ramp, but was interrupted by
one of his bros. Every drug has been shot,
smoked, and snorted at the ramp. I'm sure the
ramp has torn at least 50 tendons.
The ramp was pretty ghetto in terms of its
dimensions...12ft wide vert?? pretty stone age,
and the low part was way to mellow, but man this
ramp would get torn to shreds during heavy
sessions. Coco, julien,cards, gluehead,sarge,
phelper, and so many other visiting psychopaths
would rip this ramp. It was pretty nuts because
you could blast a 6 foot air and then transfer
down to the low part and do the latest disco
lip trick. the transfers from
low to high were the funnest. but it could be
a very humbling ramp... Dozens of times
a non local would show up to show his stuff,
and end sitting down. And shit when it
rained out, it was the place to go. Those nights
went off.
I look at his photo and just realize how
precious spots like this were to me as a young
man. They were my living room, my bar room,
my boxing ring, the highest mountain,
and greatest book ever written. So i guess
that's the point of this ramble.