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Alex: I thought Rick and Buddy's "Fruit of the Vine" film was great for a lot of reasons. One of the good reasons was they try to give you the background on how pools evolved in California, what kind of neighborhoods, and now how pools are essentially available ... because ... You know, the whole urban sociological train in California has changed, like in all places. These burned out neighborhoods are now off-ramps with pools to be ridden. All that background, the Salton Sea background. I mean California is a really peculiar, particular place. Just the fact that ... first of all, LA shouldn't really even be there, it's in a desert, and the whole Salton Sea thing. I think this guy Jocko or whoever it was that narrated that part of the film was saying, essentially the Hoover Dam, this large irrigation project along the Colorado river, in order to irrigate Southern California and other parts of the South West, was created to irrigate this really desert landscape. Little did they know they were ruining, through large-scale agro-business, they were ruining this landscape, and ruining this whole resort community, the Salton Sea area. Pools are kind of, what's left, you know? This terrain of abandonment, it's so great. I was talking to Rick the other day on the way over here, and even, these skateable pools are themselves a relic, because the way they make pools today, even in California, gives them less and less transition. It's a dying art.
SK8TC: The lawsuits of the 80s led to ... less diving danger. Alex: Yeah. Yeah. So that's all fascinating too. |