Girl & Anti-Hero Skate Tour 7 of 10 - Epicly Later'd - VICE

MALE SPEAKER: What's up?
We're at Burnside.
Pretty sick session.
Rick McCrank, going off.
And we're going to talk to Julien, Cardiel, Q, who's a
local here, ask them some cool stuff.
Anyway, pretty psyched.
It's like a historical meeting of the minds on skateboards.
MALE SPEAKER: Here he goes.

MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): Nice.

MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): [INAUDIBLE] is
a constant at Burnside.

MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): You should have been here earlier
when we were here.
MALE SPEAKER: Got to say I scratched it at least.
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): Weren't you here at five in
the morning?
MIKE CARROLL: I scratched this earlier.
MALE SPEAKER: Since I missed the 6:00 AM session.
MALE SPEAKER: You came at the 6:00 AM session?
MIKE CARROLL: Yeah.
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): All gayed up?
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): What brought that on?

[CHEERING]
PAT QUIRK: Yeah, man!
That's good dude.
Way to rip it man.
Kill it, man.
Wow, I see it can be done now after seeing that guy do it.
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): So how long has
Burnside been goin'?
PAT QUIRK: I think since 1991 or something.
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): It was originally just a bank?
PAT QUIRK: Yeah, it was that bank up there.
That thing just didn't have any tranny at the bottom.
It just kind of went down to like a--
[FFFT].
There was two little banks they built side to side on the
big things so you could go from one to the other.
Kick turn, or some people would fakey slide.
It actually was very hard to do.
Really, Burnside brought a lot of heads together that didn't
get along with each other, and they eventually had to work
with each other.
Became like a new generation.
Yeah, the park actually helped unite a lot of people, is what
I'm trying to say.
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): You remember Julien when he first
started coming out?
PAT QUIRK: I think so, man.
I go hey, where you from, and he goes, I'm from the coast.
And I always thought he was from the
Oregon coast, but wherever.
I remember people by their faces more than their names,
because I know hundreds of thousands of people.
I can't remember everybody's name.

MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): You come up here a lot?
JULIEN STRANGER: Not really.
Not much.
At least a couple times a summer.
But we used to just stay here.
Live here, kind of.
JOHN CARDIEL: Actually, there was dirt over there in that
field, and we used to fucking sleep on
cardboard boxes and shit.
It was so raw, dude.
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): No tents or anything?
JOHN CARDIEL: No.
Pre-tent years.
Cardboard box on the ground.
If you had a sleeping bag, maybe fight
somebody for a car.
Was about the best you could do.
Was nasty, though.

I came here when the first bowl was here.
I came up here snowboarding on Mt.
Hood one time.
It was just one bowl.
And then now it's fucking just advanced into the
gnarliest shit ever.
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): I remember in the spitfire
video, it was just that quarter coming up the bank.
JOHN CARDIEL: Yeah.
They had the love seat.
It was hella love.
But it's always been hella love up here in fucking
Burnside, man.

PAT QUIRK: Yeah, I remember Cardiel.
That guy was always coming up to Portland and do just some
crazy ass shit that nobody did here.
He actually was a pretty humble guy, too, and
everybody liked him.
And people look up to that dude as being one of the
leaders of skateboarding at that time.
And one of the most radical people.

If you look at it, it's almost like a jigsaw puzzle because
it's all these little sections.
The concrete guys would come by here with the trucks, and
if they had extra mud they'd drop it off here.
A lot of it was donations, or just people that skated
putting their money together, and we'd get enough money to
build another section.
Really, it's like a patchwork quilt.
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): Seems a lot
easier to skate now.
JULIEN STRANGER: Much.
Much smoother.
Yeah.
But then, wheels were bigger, so, you know.
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): Wheels were bigger then?
JULIEN STRANGER: Yeah.
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): The first time I came here it
seemed so rough that I was like, how do people-- like I
saw some of the videos and I was like, oh, it's going to be
easy, and then you get to-- you're like [BRRRRRRR].
JULIEN STRANGER: Well, you can see right there, it has a
whole new floor.
But the original Burnside was on this.
So, this is what it was for a long time.
Does look like it's in really good shape right now, though.

[CHEERING]
PAT QUIRK: Burnside's still got a good feeling to it, man.
It's been around a while, and it's got roots.
Everybody tries to get along with other people.
If you can't get along, go somewhere else.
It's got established ways that people do business here.
There's things you do, and there's things you don't do.

MALE SPEAKER: Pretty nice.
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): Hey, Rick.

PAT QUIRK: People come here to visit this place, they don't
even skate.
They go, alright, man, we just heard about it, and they take
pictures of it like it's an icon.
Well it's been in Tony Hawk's video, or whatever, and the
Free Willy.
Burnside's been in a lot of weird--
and I think it attracts some weird people.
It's like a shrine to them, or something.
It's kind of funny.
We should sell little souvenirs.
"I visited Burnside." "I survived Burnside."
MALE SPEAKER (OFFSCREEN): Alright.
Thanks, dude.
PAT QUIRK: Alright, man.
That's pretty cool, dude.
Yeah, I like talking about Burnside.
It's better than talking about yourself.