Wow. Foundation. Best spot I've ever skated. Funnest place in town and cool vibes. The cool factor is definitely up there with EMB status in my mind atleast. ATL's pemiere skatespot.
The first time heading over there was an adventure in itself. We got the crew together not knowing where the hell we were going, but knew we wanted to go there. I believe it was Phillip, Norbit, Steven, possibly Kevin, and me. I don't remember who else might have been there but Phillip said it couldn't be far from Stratosphere and was sure someone there would give us directions. Keep in mind this is back in high school. My mental map mainly consisted of skatespots here in Gwinnett.
I think Steven was the one who really wanted to go here first. He was super into watching parts online and skating where these dudes were skating, so much that I remember another time we went to skate Atlanta he would call out names and tricks at spots we would pass by.
So, it had to be a Saturday, I think we met everybody up at Mountain Park. I drove with Phillip as copilot. He knew the general direction. He said we had to ride MARTA to get there. Some of us had never ridden MARTA before. Even going to the MARTA station was a new experience. We pulled up to the parking lot all super stoked. I remember we had this issue with the car doors like they wouldn't close or something. We got it good enough and went to the train. It blew my mind to see marble ledges that no one skated in the parking lot. (Indian creek). We got off at the Inman Park Reynoldstown station and started skating. I don't know where we went, but we went. We couldn't find our way so Phillip took us to Stratosphere in Little 5 Points, which is just down the street.
Phillip got directions and we headed out. We were supposed to look for a bridge. We skated and skated. Found this playground and a bridge. Didn't seem right and it wasn't. I called up Sergio because he said he'd been there. We were lost. Total fish out of water. We tried to skate what was in front of us. Some guy with a truck and a kid came up to us that skated, they each had boards. We told him we were lost looking for Foundation. He told us to hop in he bed. Pretty sketchy move but we out numbered him.
He drove us and man were we far off. He dropped us off and I think his kid stayed to skate. Well we made it and man was it awesome. This was before Quiksilver poured the half bowl on the far side. There were wooden ramps on that side. Honestly don't remember if I had brought my camera that day, but I must have. I think we got some photos atleast.
It was getting dark. Time to head home. We didn't know how to get back the way we came, but Phillip atleast knew where the North Ave MARTA station was, underneath the Bank of America tower. We used these buildings as landmarks.
We walked all the way over there and hopped on the MARTA again. We looked at the ledges and such at that station. We also recogized it from the video parts. It had gotten cold out. I bet we were all decked out in white t's, our favorite thing to wear. We took the train back to 5 points and out to Indian Creek. Our car was still there. I had completely forgotten about the door issue. We drove home and acted like nothing ever happened. Or maybe we did, I don't know.
Kudos to the dudes that built that place. It was very special. Too bad there's a skatepark there now. Such a stale environment... oh well keep on moving, I guess.
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