I can remember it like yesterday. One of my most epic days riding a skateboard ever. The first time I went to the brooklyn banks was in about 95 or 96. It was the middle of the summer, some buddy's and I just hopped in the car and started the hour drive to NYC. I have been skating there many times before, but for some reason I never made it to the banks. So we drive all the way up to the City and straight to BK. We get to the spot and I was just amazed. I was in such aw of this place. Just straight brick everywhere you look and some how on one side of the street there were pilers, a huge stair set and HUGE banks from end to end. Then the glory spot, the picture you see below. I mean shit the history of the spot seeks for it self not to mention how epic it was that the banks were actually there in the first place.
So we get there and start to do our thing. Straight ripping all dam day long. Then a car pulled up and Fred Gull and Josh Kalis jump out and start blowing minds. All day long Kalis was trying to switch backside flip it(from the bank into the road)...and you know that he got that shit! It was by far the sickest thing I've ever seen on a skateboard at the time. Not to mention Fred trying to nollie heel it. but since the banks are pretty much just a highway off ramp for the bridge theres always tons of cars that are coming down the ramp. Now rather than just bail off when a car would come Fred would just nollie it, and he would land that shit EVERY TRY...no fucking joke making it less than a foot away from cars tearing down the ramp at 30-40 miles per hour. SO INSANE! Not to mention Upson nollie cab over the wall drunk as hell with a beer in hand. He never made it, but he landed on it at least 10 times that day. It was such a real time in skateboarding for me. Oh yea, did I mention the only one that day to get a photo was Kalis. Such good times.
Sometimes I wish I can go back to those days....RIP BROOKLYN BANKS!!
Beautifully put.
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