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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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of course, the high jump
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Early Santa Cruz action! This was the first real skate park I ever saw...I remember going there in maybe 1974? Before that, there was a drainage ditch off the freeway just south of 41st ave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZ3-dvpyPs
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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^^ Are those wires in photo #1 above attached to your shorts? If so, is this a rules violation? Your photos are only a couple years after I was riding my 2X4 with skate wheels. How quickly things change.
It reminds me that I've watched Dogtown and zBoys twice and the documentary version also.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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My first board was a steel wheeled 2x4 with shag rug glued on top.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Nothing like a midnight run thru Wawona tunnel...
Here's some vintage wheels. '63 Makaha (nose chopped off for some forgotten reason) and a '75 Neverflex. Certain things, I hang on to....
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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shag rug glued on top Now that is definitely uptown. Did you patent it? I hope you at least got a trademark on "Shaggo Grom".
This is not me, nor is it Michele. I'll try to get a shot of her when her Shaggo arrives.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Makes grip tape seem pointless
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Fresh parking lot, new Hobie...
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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The new UC is the best thing thats happened to Merced in a long while. Beautiful location, nice town. I haven't lived there since '71 but couldn't asked for a better place to grow up. Not the Leave it to Beaver place it once was....
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZ3-dvpyPs
It's fun to run these old films backwards, too.
But I miss the old technology...but two X fours worked only up to a point, in the mid-sixties. They made good downhill runners at the Presidio in Monterey on their sidewalks--hauling ass down a hill with nobody in your way and the wind in your hair and you're on the family's insurance...what could be better for careless youth?
Then the underclass came along with thinner & lighter & then they got outclassed by more flexible and so on...and real trucks and wheels, too!
Throwpie, Barry McAuley still rules, HE THINKS!!!!
Little Daughter Up the Mortarboard, by M.F.M. Wells.
In light of the fact that skateboards were not banned on campus (yet), she decided to skate to class that morning. It was PE class and her climbing harness and shoes were in her locker, so she simply wore loose fitting shorts and KMart tennies and a light sweatshirt that had a UCM on the chest.
On the back of the garment was the name MooseDrool.
She knew she had her "A+" on that basis alone, but she realized it was up to her to get better at climbing than her old man, who was exceptional for who he was.
[End of Part I.]
Andrzej, my ghost-writing is cheap and I have more ideas. Call me. They could be tennies from Walmart, if you like, or the word Andrzej might as easily appear on the back of the sweatshirt, too.
"Hope you are feeling weller than you were, MD," said Dr. Wellbee wearily "I'm feeling a little low, myself. I may have The Blues Again."
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I have secret underground plans for this other major project, on which I would like some advice. The working title is, Are You Looking at Me?: The Rise of Vanity Publishing & Self-Promotion Cults in the 20th Century
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Barry McAuley is a kook.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Legend: if a full-sized man can skate thru it, there's a pot of gold at the end.
BELIEVE IT, O'NAUGHT!
Since it's Sattiday, and some of you will go out to impress,
here's a kicker for the evening.
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And good luck to all the Wild and Crazy!!!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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There were two Steve Johnsons from Merced whom I know/knew. The first was a next-door neighbor with a dog named Dog-Dog and two pretty sisters.
The other was this guy, another Mouse, interestingly, whom I never met till the eighties. He's real good and so he doesn't choose to live here.
Like Pie.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Congrats to moosedrool's daughter, mouse and throwpie. The Merced Three or as we like to say, amongst The Flames hangers-on, Los/Las Dos Amigos y Una Amiga.
I will observe regarding that cow photo above that apparently once the cows actually do arrive home, they no longer are required to look all in the same direction. However, despite the cloud (apparently not actually invented by a computer guru at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and probably not man-made at all), nary a single cow appears to be looking up.
Reporting from in them old calla lily fields back home.
OT:
Are gunsmithing skills still taught as UC Merced?
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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No gunsmithing that I remember...but, every boy I knew, at twelve, went to Hunter's Safety at the old gun club out on G grade. Funny...we were all armed to the teeth...well, 22s and 12 guages...but...I don't recall any politics regarding guns. But then I was twelve.
I DID send a lot of jackrabbits to heaven. Then I got stoned and gave up killing things.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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The parents wouldn't think of my owning a firearm. Mike was enough, my mom likely felt--and so my dad probably thought so, too. I never really WANTED a firearm until I was thirty, actually; and then I only wanted a black powder weapon. But one day shortly after making that decision I got in an accident that nearly took my sight in my right eye.
Dear God:
Was that you talking to me? Gee, thanks.
Me.
Soon after THAT, along came Guns 'n' Roses.
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/3lwmkj/guns-n-roses-parody-hilarious---
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, moosedrool... wow, as to this:
A special place to me. My daughter got her PhD over there in 2012.
happy congrats, to the both of you... :)
zbrown, loved those ol' calla lily fields, back home, phrase, ;))
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