Rom Perf bowl '79 pic

[stumpy]

It's not BMX but hey, how Rad would it have been to ride the bowl like this! Did any RAD members get to ride it back then?



Stumpy

[SaMAlex]

Look at THAT 
The whole place looks so smooth!

I think Jedi said he went there when the extra vert was still on.

[DR VINOAH]

that was when it was called the performance bowl

after the extra 4 ft extension was knocked down it then became known as the budget bowl

stumpy a question for you

where did you find this picture??

[Jim]

I remember it like that. I think it came off in about 80-81? From memory, Vince Scanlon (sic?) persuaded the old man to knock it off so more peeps could use it. Harrow's high wall lasted a lot longer... 

[evamedia]

wow...never even knew, but it's always been called the performance.

Some people have some stupid names for the bowls in that place

[SaMAlex]

Ive not seen a photo of Rom like that but I have seen some of Harrow, and once you look for it you can see that Rom used to be the same. The lip is all patched in all the way round.


This is the Performance bowl at Harrow that has been totally filled in for years. Shame, I guess we will never get to see it now.

[Sean 2000]

I had heard about the wall, but it was long gone by the time i started going.

Sean. 

[greentoad]

A DVD is available from the early days - http://www.rollinthroughthedecades.com/

If you 'click' on - STILLS then Ben Liddell (my cousin was an early Pro Skater) is that also ROM?

J.

[stumpy]

that was when it was called the performance bowl

after the extra 4 ft extension was knocked down it then became known as the budget bowl

stumpy a question for you

where did you find this picture??

Just done a bit of scouting around on the net, found this site
http://middle-age-shred.com/
Some pics of Harrows performance as well, that thing was HUGE!

Stumpy

[Longun]

A DVD is available from the early days - http://www.rollinthroughthedecades.com/

If you 'click' on - STILLS then Ben Liddell (my cousin was an early Pro Skater) is that also ROM?

J.

No, but the Jeff Hartzel pic is.

[TwoBobRob]

Vince Scanlon. Now there's a name I've not heard in a while.....

I started going to Rom in 82, and the wall was gone then.  I did my bit though, I was one of the gang that took part of the halfpipe wall down in a fit of madness...

Vinoah is right, it was only the Performance Bowl when it had the wall around it.  Old school skaters will always call it the Budget. 

[CD17]

I'm sure SBD posted that pic of one like that 

[Ramp Rat]

love it - Stupps would drop in that one hand one foot - coaster style - no problem.

[bmxer4ever]

Amazing pic! After being to Rom for the first time this year (shame on me!) that pic just blows me away! HOW deep must that wall have made the bowl??? 14 feet?
Outrageous!
And the pic from Harrow looks just as mental.
Why o why did those things get destroyed??!!

Now I want to get a shovel and dig out the old Kelvingrove......!