I am headed to Baltimore this weekend. I made me think of back in the days of Cedar Crest so a few photos were dug up. Cedar Crest reigned from like 1986-1990 I think. Back in those days vert was king, street was sure coming on strong but vert was it. Since to skate vert you needed a lot of money for wood there were not too many vert ramps. There were pretty much no skateparks. Del Mar closed in 85is, Upland in 87ish, you had the Turf, VA Beach and a few more but nothing like today. Cedar Crest was a 24 foot wide perfect metal ramp. For the tim it was possiblt the best in the world. What made it really unique wa the fact that it was located on a private country with really no rules. It was the precursur to todays Skateopia. People came from all over the world to skate, there were crazy parties, gnarly locals and so on. It was always open and you could skate with a few local or a heated session. The gnarly sessions would see like Blaze Blouin, Fred Smith and Josh Marlowe all drop in at the same time, whoever was last on, got to take a run. Bands like Gwar, Bad Brains, Governement Issue and more played, cops showed up and there were mellow sessions too. On of the sickest locals was Brian Boyd. He skated ahead of his time, floating ollies to fakie 5 feet out and covering 10 feet of deck. He was so good and never got the recognition he deserved. Have no idea were he is now. There could seriously be a book about Cedar Crest
Here is Brian floating a Madonna in front of non other than J-Grant Brittain.
Brian Boyd - backside air
Another photo from the same era - John Sonner at Vista California, photo by Jeff Partain. John was pro for H-street, damn look at those shoes, they were like Airwalk moon boots or something
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