President and CEO of Dreamland Skateparks, Mark “Red” Scott hosted a pre-party for the Oregon Trifecta last Saturday. Dreamland is based out of Oregon and is responsible for some of the best concrete skateparks in the world. Hopefully they’ll be involved with the build of the Cleveland Skateboard Park too.
If you’ve ever been to a bowl jam then you know that it usually involves other things besides skateboarding including, but not limited to, fireworks. This party was no exception…
Allegedly two guys were having a roman candle war and one of the flaming balls of fire shot into a can of gas. Guests looked on in shock while the barn was engulfed in flames.
The result was the barn burning to the ground. I would imagine that this was quite a buzzkill overall. The barn was completely wasted but it looks like the a good portion of Red’s bowl is intact and apparently no one was injured in the fire.
The destruction pics are from Concrete Disciples and the one of Red in a Speedo is from Robert Brink.
first time i ever went there it was always a dream of mine to skate that and it burned down. i watched the session hoping that i could skate in the morning but i helped put out 2 fires and made a journey to THE BOWELS!!!!!!! i woke up after an hour of sleep to watch a piece of art go up in flames. the only thing that red had to say was “fuck it, time to builed a new one”