Boogie Bowl Skateboard Park 1977 to 1981.

In above; Don on the right, is going for a frontside grind on the back spine of the Boogie Bowl from the small bowl. Carey on the left is going for a backside wheeler in the bowl.

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Below, Don Hamilton early Frontside Air-- 1978 Boogie Bowl. Photo Brian Beach Courtesy Don Hamilton

Below, Don Hamilton--Frontside Air 1979

 

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The Boogie Bowl Skatepark was a cement bowl and snake course in the Glendale, La Cresenta area of California from July 1977 to the close of the park in March of 1981. It closed because of insurance problems, which eventually led to the close of all the great classic skateparks which ended with the close of Uplands Pipeline in 1989. The Boogie Bowl Skatepark was founded by artist Paul Bushnell with family and friends. It had a round bowl with a three foot verticle wall, with only three or four feet of transition, with what the local skaters called, "the scumline". The scumline determined the begining of verticle. The verticle wall was a late addition to the park, park officials drilled holes, secured a steel frame and molded a cement spine wall, thats why the bowl had a scumline,the vert was a late addition. The boogie bowl was the first skatepark to have a disasterous 3' cement spine back in 1977. Ray Bones and Steve Caballero of the Bones Brigade, and local B- Bowl team rider and pro Bones Brigade team skater David Z , had some good sessions at this park, Chris Strople inventor of the board slide sessioned there too . It was really tight, and in 1977 if you could get over the "scumline" of the boogie bowl you were considered a good skater. On the otherside of the boogie bowl wall was a bumpy downhill half pipe and extremly fun small bowl. Don Hamilton was team captain of the Boogie Bowl and rode for Hobie with Eddie Elguera, in 1975 Don advanced to the finals in the Hang Ten Pro Am World Championships and was ranked second in the nation as an intermediate amature of the ASPO park and bowl skateboard circuit in 1979. Photo's by Brian Beach, Courtesy of Don Hamilton.