Sixty-six reasons to hit the road.ROUTE 66 EARNED its Main Street of America title because it wound through small towns across the Midwest and Southwest, lined by hundreds of cafes, motels, gas stations, and tourist attractions. During the Great Depression, hundreds of thousands of farm families made their way west along the route to California. Today it's the Historic Route 66 (as of 1984), and the small towns which it ran through have been bypassed with high-speed interstate highways, blown out with Wal-Marts, Love's truck stops, Home Depots, chemical fast food chains, and the corporate convenience of track homes built around all the major exits. Though it is no longer a main route across America, Route 66 has retained its mystique due to the same effective hype: commercial know-how and shameless self-promotion have helped the towns along the old route stay alive. Morn-and-pop diners and motels play up their Route 66 connections, and many of the Route's landmarks are kept in business by nostalgic travelers from all over the world wanting a taste of this endlessly endangered American experience American Experience (sometimes abbreviated AmEx) is a television program airing on the PBS network in the United States. The program airs documentaries about important or interesting events and people in American history, many of which have won impressive . Many old motels and cafes hang on by a thread of hope, sit vacant, or survive in memory only--all for want of an Interstate exit. Route 66 has probably been the most impacted route in the country by the modern interstate world; for many stretches you'll be forced to leave the old two-lane, and follow the super highways that have been built right on top of the old road. The general mission was to drive a Cadillac on Route 66 starting at the Santa Monica Pier The Santa Monica Pier is located at the foot of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica, California and is a prominent landmark. Attractions The pier contains Pacific Park, a family amusement park with a large ferris wheel. , and head east as far as we could go. We figured we probably wouldn't make it to Chicago in two weeks. So Graceland in Memphis was a good place to end the trip, even though it wasn't on 66. It's a little off the beaten path, outside of Little Rock, where we were headed to skate Kanis Park. The schedule was loose, and from day to day we looked at the map and figured out where we wanted to shred and search for new spots. LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. EVERYONE MET at the Pier, where Route 66 ends coming from Chicago. We loaded up the two vehicles--a couple of White Donkeys--and we were off. We needed to skate something that day to get the ball rolling rather than spending the time driving. Mount Baldy Mount Baldy or Baldy Mountain may refer to:
n a channel or passageway through which food escapes from the occlusal surfaces of the teeth during mastication. The occlusal, developmental, and supplemental grooves, as well as the incisal, occlusal, labial, buccal, and lingual embrasures, . Fucking insane. We knew of a pool that we used to skate off and on for a couple of years, and by now it was dark. A Mexican family lives there now, so Preston--Tecate in hand--starts speaking Spanish and got the green light. A classic nighttime pool session with lights, brew, and good crew. Everyone got some. We ended the night posted up on Route 66 at the Teepee Motel in Rialto Rialto, city (1990 pop. 72,388), San Bernardino co., S Calif., a residential suburb of San Bernardino; inc. 1911. The city has greatly expanded as a result of the economic and demographic growth of the southern California area. . There are only three of these classic '40s teepee-shaped motels left in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . ARIZONA EVERYONE WAS LIKE, "Let's get the luck out of California!" We'd been there for two days, but the road was calling. Arizona was the next stop. Flagstaff Flagstaff, city (1990 pop. 45,857), seat of Coconino co., N Ariz., near the San Francisco Peaks; inc. 1894. Lumbering, ranching, and a lively tourist trade thrive in the region, where many ruined pueblos, numerous state parks, several lakes, and large pine forests and Kingman didn't give us anything, so it was off to Holbrook to skate a pool that we knew of. Things have changed a bit there. The owner didn't want any part of us skating the pool. So after a half hour of negotiations and a crisp $100 bill, we were in. Four-hour session where so much shit went down. Chet did bluntslides, a back lip over the light box, a Smith grind, and continue on down the list. Pensyl crailed over the box, plus lipslides and blunt fakies. Duffel pulled a lien to tail. Jason frontside rocked and frontside grinded on the hip. Mumford back Smithed over the light box, got some lips and a back disaster, and he was the only one to get the shallow steps. Guzman was cruising around Holbrook getting Mexican food and looking like his back was hurt from the day before. Might have had the shakes from the night previous. Towards the end of the session, he began skating, then suddenly shut the pool down with a backside noseblunt in the deep end. Textbook; couldn't have gotten into or landed it better. Best $100 we spent on the trip ... on skateboarding, that is. BAILING OUT ONE OF THE THINGS I learned from being a photographer is that you can get away with not bucketing and cleaning the gnarly (jargon) gnarly - /nar'lee/ Both obscure and hairy. "Yow! - the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage in surfer slang. pools. Most of the time I'd be in there doing the work, and still do, since the skaters don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how to handle buckets and brooms--or they're just lazy sitting on the deck drinking a brew or looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a store to get food, Now I just shoot photos and have the skaters clean the pool, and let them know they'll get more coverage in the mag and still get photo incentive while I'm cracking brews with a camera in my hand. Brilliant. NEW MEXICO New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). ALL I HAVE TO SAY is ditches, bitches! Albuquerque's got 'em all over. We spent a few days bombing the Indian School ditch and hanging out with the infamous Rocky Norton. He ended up letting us pitch our tents in the backyard. If you ever stop there, you need to skate with this guy at a ditch. He's insane. Talk about hospitality; he bought us a keg of beer the first night, and then threw it in the car the next day and took us ditch skating. How often does that shit happen? TEXAS THE STATE OF TEXAS is huge. We were lucky driving through the northern part and stopped in Amarillo for a few days. Cadillac Ranch Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas, U.S. It was created in 1974 by Chip Lord, Hudson Marquez and Doug Michels, who were a part of the art group Ant Farm, and it consists of what were (when originally installed during 1974) either is located along the tatters tat·ter 1 n. 1. A torn and hanging piece of cloth; a shred. 2. tatters Torn and ragged clothing; rags. tr. & intr.v. of historic Route 66, was built in 1974, and was the brainchild of Stanley Marsh Stanley Marsh could refer to:
The Amarillo pipe is skate-proofed, so we took it to the Amarillo skatepark, which has a funneled kind of replica (looks nothing like Amo pipe) and is a fun park. Had a sick session even though it dropped to 40 degrees from 80 in New Mexico, but the local skaters hooked us up with Road Fungus for our travels. OKLAHOMA WE GOT HOOKED UP from Brian McNair who owns The Board Shop in Tulsa. He even let us sleep there for the night. Now that's a real shop. He took us around the following day and hit some fullpipes that have been there for over 20 years. Not the biggest pipes, but fun to skate. Next stop was Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm . We found and skated a few more tad ditches, and Duffel ollied in to this hank that was steep as hell--everyone thought he was going to kill himself. Nope, made it clean and bought lunch for the crew for waiting. What? Why doesn't this guy have a shoe sponsor? Muskogee--all I have to say is keep it at the speed limit at all times, and the party favors hidden while driving through this piece of crap part of Oklahoma! I don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. what that country song has to say. Crooked inbred in·bred adj. 1. Produced by inbreeding. 2. Fixed in the character or disposition as if inherited; deep-seated. inbred said of offspring produced by inbreeding. cops! We left the state with a bad taste in our mouth, and broke out to Arkansas. ARKANSAS WE ALL DECIDED to hit up the old concrete park called Kanis. It's been there for years, and it's not the easiest thing to skate. Let's put it this way, if you drop your wallet, kick it back to Tennessee before picking it up. I think the cops patrol the park more these days, but there are a bunch of pickle sniffers cruising the area for each other. If you ever get a chance to see an underground video of Tom Groholski, take note of him skating that bowl. We set up shop, Cadillac up on the grass next to the bowl, music blasting, and cold beers in hand. The whole crew got a piece and the cops didn't even bat an eye on us. Next ... MEMPHIS BY THE TIME we got to Memphis, we were burnt. We drove around the city looking for spots, but ended up finding some good barbeque and some ghetto adult entertainment joints. The highlight in Memphis was going to Graceland to check out Elvis' digs. The place is crazy; all of his records, vintage Cadillacs, army uniforms, performance costumes, three airplanes--everything. His house is still intact the way it was. Since he died taking a deuce, all blown out on pills, they don't let you check out the upstairs bedroom area. From what we heard there's all sorts of whips and chains up there. Guess he was a super freak. But if you get a chance to go, it's interesting for sure. Thanks to Graceland for hooking up the free passes; it saved us close to $300 on the entry fee, which was all blown that night on beer and lappies at .... the infamous Captain Pinksock Cabaret. SIXTY-SIX REASONS to hit the road? If you can't think of at least 66 reasons to hit the road with a crew and your skateboard--you got problems. I've heard all the excuses to not get on the road; have to feed my dog, my girlfriend wants me to stay around more, waiting for a check in the mail, have to get a walk-through at Oakley, been traveling too much this year, have to shoot some portraits for the website, Blink 182 is playing next weekend, shop signing next week, who's paying for the trip? We have to camp out? Can my girlfriend come? Blah, blah, blah. THE CREW COREY DUFFEL Corey Duffel is a popular professional skateboarder from Walnut Creek, California, United States. He was born on April 11, 1984 as William Corey Duffel to Steve and Sharon. He is known for skating big gaps, rails, and stairs. Aka Sid Vicious on the trip. One of the best guys out there to travel with. iPod always on, willing to drive anytime, especially home from the bars. Will skate gnarly shit by himself while everyone else is hung over. Solid team player and straight-up comedy. Yeah, Dunny dunny Noun pl -nies Austral or old-fashioned NZ informal a toilet [of obscure origin] dunny noun Austral., N.Z. ! CHET CHILDRESS The road machine. Ol' Dirty Crooks will remember spots, find new spots, and always hype up a session. Won't sit still or sleep until he's skated for hours. Coffee, brew, Euros fried chicken, and it's on. A real fan of beavertails at the adult entertainment joints. If Chet had an odometer odometer (ōdŏm`ĭtər), instrument provided in an automotive vehicle to indicate the total number of miles that have been traveled. attached to him, it would be off the charts for the mileage he's endured these last few years. EMMANUEL GUZMAN The Street Vato is sick to have on any trip. Will skate anything--and rip it. Drives like a maniac ma·ni·ac n. An insane person. maniac one affected with mania. , and who would expect anything less? Psyched on anywhere he goes, with the last thing out of his mouth being a complaint. Keep the firewater fire·wa·ter n. Slang Strong liquor, especially whiskey. [Translation of Ojibwa ishkodewaaboo, whiskey. at a distance at all times. DAF for life bitch! DAN PENSYL Pensyl is a fucking animal, Lakes the gnarliest slams, and gets up smiling. Coming out of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. where it's been cold, he was ready to hit the road and never complained about shit. Skating, drinking beers, and being on the road with his homies This article is about a toy series. For the slang usage, see Homie. Homies are a series of 2-inch figurines loosely based upon Chicano (Mexican American) characters in the life of artist David Gonzales. was more fun than swinging hammers back in the City of Dreams City of Dreams is a historical novel by Beverly Swerling, published in 2001. It is the multi-generational history of a family of immigrants set in Nieuw Amsterdam and early Manhattan. . MATT MUMFORD Aka Bambi Slips. He didn't know what he was getting into; somebody else backed out at the last moment and Chet basically made Matt get in the car. The first stop on the trip he got a heel bruise at Baldy baldy, baldy-faced said of cattle to mean a white face and usually indicating a Hereford influence in the animal's breeding. without a skateboard. Go figure. He enjoyed the whole trip, still got to rip, drank plenty of piss, humored everyone with his Australian slang, and even blew off his flight out from Memphis to drive back across for three days. Good on ya, mate! JASON ADAMS What's a Route 66 trip without The Kid and a Cadillac? Jason's always hyping up some cold ones at any gas stop, no matter what time it is. The real instigator in·sti·gate tr.v. in·sti·gat·ed, in·sti·gat·ing, in·sti·gates 1. To urge on; goad. 2. To stir up; foment. [Latin , he will put the blame on everyone else (especially me). Take him to the right spots, wind him up, and watch him go. Warning: Gets grumpier with age, but nothing a few beers can't cure. Concrete DIYs keep popping up. Jason Adams, proper tuck-knee frontside air [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Some skaters go there and can't jump it to get in, but Duffel kickflips the Baldy gap on the way out. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Guzman takes the back noseblunt to a pool after a big night on some firewater [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ludacrooks puts some steez on the back-lip-over-light-box combo [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dan Pensyl, straight out of NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City to Amarillo, TX, oillie up to 5-0 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pensyl blunt fakies for a 12-pack of road sodas [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] These pipes were supposed to be for a nuclear plant back in the day. Brian McNair puts them to better use--ollie transfer. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the Albuquerque pigs were rolling up on our scene. Duffel up and back in on the top rope. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One way to cool off your bearings in the heat. Pesyl tailslides into the drink. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sometimes getting lost will find you spots. Mumford, frontside rocker in a tight spot. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Duffel had to put the leather on for this one. Wheelbite to cheese grater and ypu're done [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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