467: Delaware Water Gap Vert Facility: Gets bowled in for 2010.
December 30, 2009
The new Bowled end at DWG Vert Facility…. Here is the BEFORE shot
Photography by Paul Puccio
Remember how exciting it was when the ramp got a new layer!! Maaaan have times changed…Looks like Allen Gibson has decided to Bowl up the entire deep end of his Masterpiece….Looks like The East Coasters have it all wrapped up now…Bucky has his concrete Heaven out West and AG has his Wooden Vert Facility on the East…You do know you can Skate this…right? (On Saturdays only) Email me.
Jason
Allen “Guts n Glory” Gibson he has his home court dialed in
Irene Ching Vert Roller Skatings reigning Queen and Spokesperson.
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303: The House of Steam: July 20th, 2 Years!! Benjamin Cornish’s Super 8 Youth (The Directors cut)
July 20, 2008
Its 2 years on and here is how things stand:
100,000+ hits!! (right on the anniversary too)
274 entries into the archive scattered across 500 categories.
491 comments
Lets also not forget YouTubeSkate with 8,000 hits, 46 videos and counting and a year old too!
No money generated.
No Money lost!
Lots of old friends catching up and getting together. Allan Gibson has put out an all call to skaters wishing to ride his Uber-Ramp. Wreckroom skates is putting out boards for three Steam riders, Dan Tag, Darren Menditto, and Bernie O’Dowd. I have a couple pictures going into an HR documentary and I had a cool email conversation with Guy from Fugazi. If you google/image search the word “signature” my name is number 2 on the entire internet(try it, its crazy!!). The 78 ditch is being ridden again by a whole new generation of skaters. Ben Cornish has dusted off his old films (Cant wait to see “Demo” again) I have gotten no better or worse at writing. SteamBoat released an amazing (cant wait to see it) skate film. Chuck is skating and performing.Jay Henry is still…Well, Jay Henry. The Padulos’s have a quarterpipe in their driveway again, for their kids. Mike Pruskowski is a Dad this year. Rinaldi is blogging away. Rodney opened a shop in the lower east side.Bernie is skating and directing creativity. John is sculpting.Tom Groholski chimed in with a killer essay on East Coast pride. Vallely always has great things to say here. Mertz is gonna be back in action as well as making music. Rocky is spinning, Dennis is fishing. Taylor is blackberrying. 300+ people are trolling through our nostalgic past on a daily basis. Everyone will always miss Weep, JT,Sean, Hula and the rest. Anyway…
So two years ago on July 20th I posted a picture of the Barn on this free blog site. I have not done a thing to change the look and feel of the place since then. I am not sure why I did it at the time, I guess I wanted to throw up a flag and see who would salute. It was dawning on me at the time I had not seen some really important people in my life for over 10 years and I needed to change that. I always took pride in my skate photo album and I felt others took pride in theirs as well. I had hoped everyone would want to dust theirs off and compile it all in one place, The House of Steam like a wing of the Metropolitan museum of art. So I guess its mission accomplished. The main thing I constantly take away from working on THOS is that we had some great early years, surrounded by cool supportive people and families. We had places to go, places to stay and we made our own decisions. Most importantly everyone seemed to know at the time how good we had it then and how good we have it now. Life enjoyed/Enjoying life, so far so good.
Thanks to everyone who reads,contributes,comments,emails, sends pictures etc. etc. Also thank you for all the great comments concerning my art over at Http://jasonoliva.com they are always appreciated (keep em coming!)
I will keep this post up for a bit while I get ready for year 3 and everyone can get a chance to drop a comment or even a suggestion.
Well without further adieu here is Ben Cornish’s SUPER 8 YOUTH in its entirety…Enjoy!
DIRECTOR-EDITOR
ben cornish
CAMERA
dave padulo
dan tag
rocky vertone
others
FEATURING
chris blank
simon curtis
dan tag
rocky vertone
jt murphy
jimmy kane
dennis kane
steve mannion
john ballon
bernie o’dowd
jason oliva
tim cornish
matt padulo
cornish chickens
MUSIC and SAMPLES
dj king weep
apple x
civ
descendents
bad brains
modest mouse
rambling jack elliot
Irene Ching circa 86 The Barn, NJ
Hi Jason,
I wanted to submit some photos of the Barn for your great website.
I had the pleasure of skating with Dennis and Jimmy Kane this past Saturday (July 7, 07) at the Delaware Gap facility.
It has been some 20 years since I’ve seen them last. Wow! It was a good time with Papo and Pup (puppetsjazzbar.. clicky..jason) sessioning, too.
Of course, I brought my old collection of photos to show them, and that’s when they told me to contact you.
I hope they can be of use. I do have more pics of the Barn.
Thanks and keep up the great work,
Irene Ching
So I get introduced to Allen Gibson (DG Skate Facility) through mutual friends in NYC. Allen knows Menditto, Boyle..etc etc. I introduce him to Jimmy and Dennis Kane. They go to skate and Papo, Pup, and Irene are all there….too cool!!!
Irene has sent in some of the best pictures of The Barn to date and has a ton more for us!
Cant wait…here is a sample of the gems:
Jim Murphy The Barn circa 86
Pre Dread Zorlac John Gibson riding Jim Murphy!
Nice one Irene!!
PS..If you are in any of these photos send us a comment or an email! We are looking for you!!
East Coast Pride by Tom Groholski
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