Down South Style
PHOTOS BY SONNY MILLER
The foothills of the North County area have
played host to a number of secret spots
through the years and some are just now be
ing discovered. Finder/founder of the "Avo
Bowl", Dave Kline, enjoys some layed back
sessioning.
The Universe is big. To most, beyond
comprehension. In it are numerous
galaxies, which, when summed up, again
beyond comprehension. Picking one at
random, let us say, the Milky Way. Lots of
stars and planets there, not to mention.
the billions of tonnage of space junk.
Descending upon our own solar
sanctum, we descend upon earth. A
world, pretty big but not the biggest. On it
millions of people not unlike yourself,
living and breathing, going about their
ways. Hundreds of activities captivate
their attention throughout certain parts of
their daily routine. Lacrosse is one
example. A team sport that is rough and
rowdy but the audience participation level
is minimal, limited to yelling, screaming
and cheering only.
North America, the home base of so-
called red-blooded Americans, known for
their peculiar habits, ways and means.
The year is nineteen hundred and seventy.
six. A form of music is devised to unite the
people in a unified social life of dancing,
congregating and mating, only to have it
flop on its front side in the space of half a
decade. It was called "Disco."
Around and about this same space of
time on the west coast of the United
States, on the southern section of the
State of California, in the northern
quadrants of San Diego County (known to
the local inhabitants simply as North
County), two young brothers, Tony and
Rex M., took their first look at the
reservoir. A blond-haired hot dog by the
name of Ty Page whipped up and down
the embankments slaloming a nose
wheelie through graffittied obstacles. The
brothers 'M' approached and knew they fit.
Jeff Tatum, Nuke-land pipe transfer.
A casual sesion at "Avo Bowl" gets intensified when skate heavies like Chris Strople
are in attendance.