1970's Skateboard Park - Northeast Skate Slopes (Austin, West: skateboarding, skatepark)

[mexicajun]

I heard it was somewhere around Naco-Perrin + Perrin Beitel. Anyone have memories of this place? Please discuss! (Photos or video would be neat too)

[01Snake]

Use to be one in the late 80's at Perrin Beitel and Austin Highway. It was all concrete with a small street course and a "bowl". The bowl was a joke as the transitions were horrible.

[Dube665]

It was before my time but I remember the sign was still there around 85-86. I remember passing by it everytime I had the opportunity to visit Zulu's Skateboards (skateshop) on Naco Perrin at Perrin Beitel.

[mexicajun]

Originally Posted by 01Snake

Use to be one in the late 80's at Perrin Beitel and Austin Highway. It was all concrete with a small street course and a "bowl". The bowl was a joke as the transitions were horrible.

Ramp & Rage. That was on Austin Highway. The skatepark was there from '89—'93 or so. I went there several times. It was started by Bob of Bob's Bikes, owner of the bicycle-turned-skateboard shop that was located right next to Westlakes Theater. Bob ran the skatepark for a little while and then gave up the skateboarding business all-together. The skatepark soon re-opened under another name until it fizzled as well.

Indeed, the bowl was terrible. The whole layout of the concrete course was kinda lame too. Not much contour flow and all right-angle stiffness on a small rectangle patch of raised concrete. Too much stuff crammed in too little area, basically. Definitely not at all like skateparks nowadays. The massive 12-foot halfpipe was the one thing done right, but very few people could actually skate it. Supposedly, the person who designed Ramp & Rage was a high school classmate of mine and a Bob's skateshop employee. At the time it was the only skatepark in the city (or even South Texas) so it was all we had.