Memories Of The San Fernando Valley Part 24 - SKATEBOARDING

Memories Of The San Fernando Valley Part 24 - SKATEBOARDING - My Life Skating In The Valley

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@joshuaross4644 Жыл бұрын

Your dad was a stand up guy. You’re so lucky to have had him as your dad. My dad was exactly the same but unfortunately he died when I was 11 years old

@handsomeX Жыл бұрын

R.I.P to your dad

@idonnowhattoput Жыл бұрын

Definitely not a poser. If you got to a spot and got on your board your good. Being a poser literally means you are standing around and posing instead of skating.

@ricardodiaz6187 Жыл бұрын

Love your channel man. I was born in 76. I love and miss the Earth in the 80’s. I grew up in the South Bay then moved to the SGV for Junior HS and on. I had a dope Ninja skateboard 😂😂😂😂.

@Jbaz79 Жыл бұрын

I’m the same age as you and I don’t blame you not skating down the stairs.The recovery time isn’t what it used to be then it was as a kid. Skating and riding my Huffy bicycle was a huge memory in my youth.Thanks for sharing your memories our generation had some great times!!

@chuckwillingham3103 7 ай бұрын

Lol .. A Huffy .... yeah I rode one too.... While wearing my Sears Tough Skins jeans 😅

@roddyrod583 Жыл бұрын

Man, I remember the 80s skateboarding. The movie Gleaming the Cube. Idolizing Tony Hawk. Big wide skateboards. Bright colors. One of my board's came with a radio under it. But sadly, I sucked at skateboarding. LOL.

@g-carsquad8262 Жыл бұрын

This was my favorite Memories of the San Fernando Valley videos.

@jamesc949 Жыл бұрын

I live in South Carolina and we took a road trip to California back in the late 80's to skate Hubba Hideout. Sprained my ankle.

@80sLife Жыл бұрын

That's rad! Well... not the ankle sprain

@vuckfon Жыл бұрын

I grew up in north Hollywood. 818 for life. Love you're channel too. ❤❤

@joes.4149 Жыл бұрын

I love the valley. I got the huge wave of skateboarding in 1998/99 and loved it so much. Now I’m in my thirties back into skating and living life again lol.

@jaysmith2151 Жыл бұрын

I miss the 80s life of skateboarding to gangster rap and metal music and one of my favorite movies ever was The Search for Animal Chin.

@80sLife Жыл бұрын

100% to all of that

@jaysmith2151 Жыл бұрын

@@80sLife finally somebody feels me.. Listening to suicidal tendencies and other thrash metal also gangster rap too NWA and public enemy as you would take your ramps you built I'm Rollin down the street on your skateboards to a nearby school or to your friends houses and skate board all day on a old school Powell Peralta with independent trucks and slimeball Wheels. What you know about that. Lmao 💯

@milo12381 Жыл бұрын

Me and you are so similar my dad had a 67 impala gold and I grew up in California in San Luis obispo I'n the 80s....I'll be 44 in july...I love your show man it brings back cool memories...thanks bro

@Old_School_Monster Жыл бұрын

This video brings me so many memories. I started skating in 1989/90 but im from Spain. I can´t imagine how good would be living and skating in the USA at that time. Riding a Powell Peralta was everything to me 🙂😔

@buckodonnghaile4309 Жыл бұрын

Barcelona looks fun to skate. Looks a lot smoother than small town Canada where I grew up skating.

@TimLindsay Жыл бұрын

fantastic video Growing up in the 70's and 80's all I did was skateboard in Toronto and I would buy Skateboarder mags and dream about living in California and skating the days away. First real board was a alva with acs 500's and yo yo wheels. then I got a dogtown with indys and green sims snakes wish I still had them thanks for the memories

@jeffersonpekar6645 Жыл бұрын

That little ramp at the City Walk Vans store was dope. Probably a bit taller than you said, just above 4' high and all wood, no masonite. Really solid and well built. I always liked skating for the crowds when the store was busy.

@joematrix71 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@80sLife Жыл бұрын

Thank you SO much!

@kevelliot2928 Жыл бұрын

Great one Kurt!

@darincrowell4424 Жыл бұрын

I grew up in Canoga Park, now West Hills, i used to skate Knapp Park, Victory Hill, and Parkman Jr. High!!! We skated all over the west end of the Valley. Got my first board from Val Surf on Ventura Blvd!! Used to boogie board at Zuma beach! The Valley was amazing in the 70's and 80's! Seeing Knapp Park brought back memories! Thank you!

@iamstrangeways Жыл бұрын

Kurt, the park you are talking about was called Transition. It was in the East LA / Commerce (my hometown) area. They had the vert ramp / mini ramp outside too. Good video as always, same age as you man so all this stuff always makes me smile.

@iamstrangeways Жыл бұрын

There was also Sk8 Underground in Moreno Valley. Also a all wood park. Those two parks were basically it for Southern California in the early to mid 90s.

@known_unknown284 Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised and happy that so many of these spots remain and are pretty much seemingly more or less the same as they were back in the day. Given the pace at which they're tearing down and replacing structures these days, that's pretty incredible.

@culcune Жыл бұрын

I moved out of the Valley in 2002, but visit several times a year, and even moved back for about a year and a half from early 2018 to late 2019. So much changed, but so much is still familiar. Some of the food places that remain open have changed hands, and don't taste the same. My sisters worked at My Hero sub sandwich shop in Northridge in the mid-80s. One of the employees they worked with bought it in the early 90s, and owned it until a few years ago and sold it to a couple who worked for her. It is still good, but slightly different. The original bakery that made the bread for them (located in an industrial area of Northridge) closed down several years back, so it is different. However, close enough to original. I am happy to see and taste Tommy's still is the same. Cupid's used to have several more locations, but is still open at the spot I remember on Lindley just south of Nordhoff and tastes the same (although I do prefer Tommy's chili dogs to Cupid's). The Shakeys I used to go to as a kid on Devonshire and Reseda is still open, and there is a mom and pop fish and chip place next door (used to be H. Salt up to the early 90s) which is still there, as well as across the parking lot the same Chinese restaurant that was there in 1979 when we moved to the area is still there. That parking lot is a gold mine for memories, lol. My parents still live in the same house near Tampa/Chatsworth we moved to in 1979 when I was 10, so that is my place to get my bearings on the numerous trips to the L.A. I go on to visit them.

@thewelfarian2721 Жыл бұрын

Great video as always, and that's a hell of an ollie you still have

@JavierMartinez-rz4vc Жыл бұрын

Love it ! I have your age and I felt completely identify .. I used to skate at that age but in Caracas (Venezuela)

@KelmutHool Жыл бұрын

your parents don't seem overprotective at all compared to mine, my mom was extremely anti-skateboarding. She always feared for my safety and threw every single one of my boards into the trash 😭 Great video as always, I really enjoy these then-and-now comparisons.

@gonzalopoketer Жыл бұрын

Excelent video !

@NITE_SHIFTING Жыл бұрын

Great vid!

@80sLife Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@bongdonkey Жыл бұрын

Cool video. I want that "66" Impala. Wow! Saluto!

@80sLife Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@danielknepper6884 Жыл бұрын

Oh yes mid-to-late 80's. Watching powell-peralta videos, wanting a skateboard so you go to the mall and you see how much they cost and then you go to Target and you rock a Variflex.😅

@nomoretears215 Жыл бұрын

I like how you kept it old school. No helmet knee pad or elbow pads. We never worn that stuff in the 80s. If we fell we shook it off. Man this video takes me back. I watched it twice already. Thanks for the memories

@revolver64 Жыл бұрын

Dude, I’m pretty sure I’ve said it before, but the stories you tell about your dad remind me SO much of my dad. He was also very supportive of my skating. Had the stickers on his van, would drive me to contests and to ditches and whatever other random skate spot. And I could see him pulling something like what your dad did when he told you to get out and skate at the place that said no skating! My dad took me and a friend to the Carson Velodrome contest. When the PA operator was having trouble cueing up Hosoi’s music for his run, and Hosoi was getting visibly frustrated, my dad stood up and yelled “Shut up and skate!” And got a big laugh from the crowd. I was embarrassed but looking back it was hilarious. Skate dads are the best!

@dante340 Жыл бұрын

Ha! My childhood Toys R Us in Cerritos also got turned into an Amazon Fresh 😂 Guess we have something in common.

@Quo-vadis-domine Жыл бұрын

Like and comment to support the algorithm of the channel and the 80’s❤️

@DWINC Жыл бұрын

Exactly, and share!

@80sLife Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@clips65 Жыл бұрын

I'm 57 and still ride my ALVA board on Indy's and YoYos to the mail box. Skated Vans Park and many outdoor parks as well as home made 1/4 and 1/2 pipes. Took my sons to every skate stop i could find in cali when they were growing up. It never leaves you, doesnt matter if you were great or not its in your blood!!

@LinkMassing Жыл бұрын

I have that Frankie Hill reissue hanging on my wall! I'm already two and a half minutes into your video and I am already stoked.

@LinkMassing Жыл бұрын

28:00 I have seen a lot of clips filmed there!

@johnmartin7182 Жыл бұрын

As always awesome content thanks again for your time to do this video big fan of your channel

@twentytolife4401 3 ай бұрын

I can relate to this one. You going to your old spots reminiscing and telling us about your youth as a skater. I grew up in Tampa, a freestyle bmxer in the 80's. I recently rode my mountain bike in my old neighborhood looking at my old spots while I recorded with my cell phone telling stories to show my best bud who lives 20 miles away. We rode everywhere and shredded. 51 now and still riding. Love your videos.🍻

@RAIDERSJUSTWINBAYB Жыл бұрын

Great video 👏

@DaveWossum Жыл бұрын

I am little older than you and this video hits hard. Thanks for making this one.

@JIVETURKEY600 Жыл бұрын

Cool Video man.

@vistalite-ph4zw Жыл бұрын

There were 2 indoor skateparks in the East LA area. The 1st one was in City Terrace off the 10 freeway, it was called Lipslide. Very small maybe 3-4 ramps. The 2nd place was on Atlantic St in East LA/Montebello/Commerce area called Transition. They also had a pro ramp and a 6ft mini ramp outside. It was a old Napa Auto Parts warehouse. If you had pads and a helmet I think they charged $1 entry fee for all day. However they had pad and helmet rentals also which was like $5. Before it shut down they added a snack bar(kinda), skateboard parts, accessories, and skate shirts...

@iamstrangeways Жыл бұрын

Never heard of Lipslide but pre internet it was all word of mouth. Next town over might well had been the other side of the world when you are a kid. Ford Park in Bell Gardens had some sort of ramp but by the time we heard about it it had been taken apart and was behind a locked fence.

@curbkiller3609 Жыл бұрын

I’d say you’re a real true skater at heart dosent matter how good you truly are you had fun and consumed everything skating !!

@mz3912 Жыл бұрын

Thanks man

@dobees8183 9 ай бұрын

Ok, this was a tear jerker, just remembering real good times in the SFV.

@aaronhbaker Жыл бұрын

Wow - you ran into Sean Sheffey in the wild in the 90s??? That’s amazing

@user-mk5pg5sy5m Жыл бұрын

Whoa!! So in 2005-2006 I actually lived in this very building on Tampa and victory! What a trip. My bedroom window used to overlook that same part of the wash there. What a coincidence. I was like 13 and 14 when I lived here and I was also pretty into skateboarding also. I went to school at Parkman middle school and portola middle school and Birmingham high school. I used to hang out at cobalt cafe every weekend! Love these videos.

@CIRCLEONE77 8 ай бұрын

Around the same age and also grew up in reseda. Punk shows at the cobalt and skating were my life

@rawkusrex Жыл бұрын

his dad was his legit partner in crime

@electropsychosis Жыл бұрын

Went back to some childhood places as well. So much fun. Memories forever. 🖤

@theoe2879 2 ай бұрын

Bloody AWESOME,Bro! You have the best memory and your stories are simply epic.

@ski567 Жыл бұрын

Another stellar video! I thoroughly enjoy watching you recount your childhood because everything from mine has been torn down.

@monkist Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing these memories! We are about the same age but I was born in Hungary so your childhood was a dream for me. Watching these videos now, especially this one about skating in the Valley makes me feel as if I was a part of it and brings me closer to the things I had longed for while skating or BMXing back in the 80s.

@rzfs1v Жыл бұрын

I think this my favorite video you've done to date. I was obsessed with skating in the late 80's so I can relate a little. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

@Nick_B_Bad Жыл бұрын

I get the feeling we’re about the same age. Growing up skating in suburban Ohio I used to dream that CA was a skate paradise. 😂 I still got a board and try to relive that glory about once a year until I roll my ankle and lay there in pain 😂 the recovery time isn’t what it used to be.

@v2vroth Жыл бұрын

Very cool memories you had an awesome childhood. Thanks for sharing 😎

@80sLife Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😁

@jungness 11 ай бұрын

That's a great Ollie story. Those kids laughing at you LOL

@Twobarpsi Жыл бұрын

I love your stories because we grew up through the same times.

@MrHubbmuscle Жыл бұрын

I too grew up with skateboarding around the same year. But man I’d break my neck if I tried again. Love you for still doing it

@soufmaro502 Жыл бұрын

that actually resambles a 80s style : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLt0iLh7u8C6mmQ.html

@DavidThomas-vj3eu Жыл бұрын

I was like BMX biking around the neighborhood in the 80s.

@nikkipacheco6835 Жыл бұрын

It's cool & lucky you got to save all those awesome 80's merchandise you got 👍🏼

@YT1300PILOT Жыл бұрын

Loved this video , Glad you have so many great memories. 👨🏻‍🚒👍🏼

@spookymorales Жыл бұрын

Even posers had to start somewhere... Great video Kurt...this was our life too in the 80s...feel like all my comments end the same now.....Thanks for the memories Kurt! 👻🙏🏼

@yandman26 7 ай бұрын

This video was awesome. We're similar ages, and this brought back so many of my own skating memories. Cool to see you riding a Frankie Hill too, man, Ban This was incredible. We would watch that and Public Domain before heading out, on those long summer, carefree days.

@santanadegollado9812 Жыл бұрын

80s LIFE F#CKIN RULES!!!!!! NOTHING LIKE GROWING UP IN THE 80s.... even tho these are your memories it still takes me back... we have this spot out here in EAST CHICAGO , INDIANA we called it the "CAT WALK" its basically an over pass of like 20 railrod tracks but each end is different one side is a ramp straight down its literally 50-60 feet high & the other end is 4 level spiral ramp.... we would ride our bikes & skateboards on it all day long... i gotta take my 10yr old son to see it before something happens to it he loves skating as well.. i just love your videos so much i can watch em all day THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO!!!!!!

@calvincandie5344 Жыл бұрын

I gave this a thumbs up just for the ollie...

@carl8s-bit692 Жыл бұрын

First!

@dirtvegan Жыл бұрын

Those first wallie ollies up a curb.

@rsanders27 Жыл бұрын

Nice pair of jams you are modelling, Kurt!

@lwmitcham 4 ай бұрын

Nice ollie I grew up in the 80s and early 90s skateboarding around San Jose CA and the rest of the Bay Area

@chuckwillingham3103 7 ай бұрын

P.s. was amazing that they resurected those apt's after the quake .....especially since they sat empty for quite a long time (like years)

@1ceCold037 5 ай бұрын

I also used to skate the mini ramp at Vans in City Walk. My neighbor actually had a mini ramp in his front yard on Oxnard street too.

@philrose7716 Жыл бұрын

Great video

@80sLife Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@SassyHooper 9 ай бұрын

Your pops 💙💙💙💙

@OhanaFilms Жыл бұрын

I can relate to so much of this.

@southsideofhawthorne6507 Жыл бұрын

Great content per usual. Always fun, always informative and detail orientated.

@stephanieyeminez89 Жыл бұрын

I'm from the San Fernando valley canoga park. My husband William also from canoga park. I went to Reseda high. William went to canoga high. I remember the pepper tree and my first job was Burger King on Winnetka

@80sLife Жыл бұрын

We were right by eachother when you went to Reseda 🙂

@stephanieyeminez89 Жыл бұрын

@@80sLife really that's so cool. We go to the valley every couple months. I went to my dad's old house my child hood house it's not the same. I get sad . Love your channel

@stephanieyeminez89 Жыл бұрын

@@80sLife hi neighbor

@joes.4149 Жыл бұрын

Wow. Places I passed a lot. Wow.

@iMaybe2High 11 ай бұрын

First youtuber I follow that is in my hometown and enjoying your content man. Thanks for this!

@Czechbound Жыл бұрын

That was really great Kurt. Growing up in the 70's in Ireland, I remember having an "annual" ( like a compendium of some magazine ) that we bought at a "bring and buy" sale for the Scouts. It was all focused on LA. There were pieces on custom cars, and custom paint jobs. But also a big piece on skateboarding. We'd never seen a skate bowl ( I seem to remember it mentioned that these grew out of kids skating in empty swimming pools in LA ). Then some older kid in the neighbourhood had a skateboard. He let us all have a go, but we could just about stand up on it. I remember being surprised at how heavy it was. And when we discovered that the axles moved ... minds were blown ! But it never took off in our cul de sac street. I guess Irish rainy weather is not designed for skateboarding. Here in Prague the first event I ever went to when I arrived in 2007 was the annual Skate competition. A HUGE half pipe, great music, and some cool skills. There is a great skate park right across the street from where I live now, but I've never skated there. The kids seem to prefer those mini scooters, where they can hold the handlebars and rotate the board around under their feet. Randomly, Tony Hawk visited in 2015 to promote his new ( EA ?) game. I got there early and there was a huge crowd.

@Linda-pw8gx Жыл бұрын

Loving your uploads!!! We use to call stop n go : stop n slop!!! You r a cool dude

@staypufft77 Жыл бұрын

Hello from Vancouver Canada

@80sLife Жыл бұрын

Hello

@SteadiNesk Жыл бұрын

That old school Frankie Hill tho. I’m 48 and all I can do is Ollie, maybe a kick flip. I miss sk8ing so much.

@dirtvegan Жыл бұрын

You got that Frankie hill bulldog board.

@rand0m742 Жыл бұрын

Shame that the original apt building collapsed. Interestingly enough, Reseda was actually the epicenter of the 94 earthquake, not Northridge like many believe.

@johnc7642 3 ай бұрын

Nice video. I skated at the Ralph's on saticoy and louise and at the bank on saticoy and white oak. 3rd gen valley boy.

@brokenSceneVids Жыл бұрын

Forgot how much I love the valley videos. Thought you’d show the famous north Hollywood vanowen street gap. Valley rats unite !!🐀 🐀 🐀

@80sLife Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Maybe in the next one... there was a lot I left out. It was getting lengthy

@m3rlz Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Never stop searching for Chin! 🛹🛹🛹

@80sLife Жыл бұрын

NEVER!

@NickL951 Жыл бұрын

What wonderful memories of your dad totally supporting you. This skateboard story and the Prince tickets line story are heartwarming to me. Do you remember a skatepark in Whittier called Skate City? Its been torn down for years but we lived about a mile from there. Tony Hawk competed there and you can see a lot of that footage in his HBO documentary.

@chuckwillingham3103 7 ай бұрын

Love your videos Kurt ... I recognize your old skate stomping grounds at apt.'s on Victory just before Tampa .. Im guessing you were there before the '94 earthquake that destroyed that whole complex ...one of the famous pics from Northridge quake taken there with all the cars crushed in the parking stalls ..... And yep used to go to that Stop & Go alot in High school .. 1980 - 81 .. hope you & family had great Turkey Day

@Lee69111 Жыл бұрын

Possessed to Skate - ST :) ... loved that track! :)

@steviel6345 9 ай бұрын

So many early sceans where I live now. Van Alden and Kittridge.

@lookbacklibrary Ай бұрын

Transitions Skatepark is the ramp spot i think you spoke of... and that ditch behind your apartment just needs a little tlc. sweep it.. bring in a parking curb and a piece of plywood for a rollin on the far side.....i woulda been all over that thing in the 80's/

@teetop5776 Жыл бұрын

The old Hollywood video spot was a block away from where DVS skateboard shoes/Matix clothing was. The dude who ollied the shopping cart was most likely Sean Sheffey.

@venswim1998 Жыл бұрын

Amazing vid. Thank you so much.

@nigelgeiger6020 6 ай бұрын

I’m 41 and been skating since 87. I skate almost everyday but retired from stairs in my early 30s.

@joes.4149 Жыл бұрын

Your skating is still fun dude. Buttery shuvit too haha.

@johnwhitlock1042 10 ай бұрын

Pedlow was my home park!

@19kambo Жыл бұрын

Damn I live in those apartments I would’ve came to say wassup I’ve been watching your videos about The Valley since 2020

@jasonmountain4643 Жыл бұрын

I'm 46 and in awesome shape, but I still wouldn't go down those stairs. lol. Two years ago I rolled my ankle on a half pipe after dropping in a bunch. I hung up the board finally.

@Ninoluna1111 Жыл бұрын

Golf-n-fun in Santa Barbara had a cool skate park in the 8o's!

@randomfist797 Жыл бұрын

Same Toys R’ Us location I went to as a kid. It was the closest one to Simi where I grew up.

@rv2060 Жыл бұрын

I definitely remember the mini ramp at the Vans store. I remember it being at the right hand side of the store near the register. I remember it vividly because thats where i bought my Royal Blue and Black Geoff Rowley's.. I used to live in Toluca Lake in a duplex on Cahuenga, walking distance from Citywalk. That was back when they had the best shops and food. Ballzac store, The Magic Shop, Out of this World Comic book store... Right next door to bomb ass Jody Maroni's.... I remember at one point, Panasonic rented out a spot on Citywalk to consumer test the Panasonic 3DO, and they'd let you play Road Rash for free... Those really were the Golden years....