John Torschia
Christmas eve 09
Sometimes, words are entirely useless. Words cannot convey the sadness, at the loss of a perfect thing. Whether its love, possessions, family or fun…loss cuts deep. Skaters have enjoyed the Salton Sea pool for a very long time. Struggling with leaking plaster, dead fish, the odor of decay, and flies, flies, flies; skaters have made the dusty drive to carve its forgotten perfection. Its gone now. All we have left, are the personal memories, video clips, and photographic images. Remember the Salton Sea pool. Thanks to Chris Tietz, JGrant Brittain & MRZ for the images. Go skate….and take nothing for granted. -Ozzie
January 14, 2010 at 11:04 am
[...] this on Ozzie Asband’s site, Blue Tile Obsession. Bummer. Here’s Lee Bender’s site, One Sick Race too. 1988 photo by Grant [...]
January 9, 2010 at 5:34 pm
too bad..that was a great one i rode it a dozen or so times and have some good footy of it..
January 6, 2010 at 10:53 am
I’ve been there, I have video footage. That place os brown and filthy and ghetto. There are dead fish EVERYWHERE. 2nd photo must be touched up. I’ve never seen anything blue near the Salton Sea, except maybe the oil slick on the surface.
January 5, 2010 at 3:51 pm
[...] this on Ozzie Asband’s site, Blue Tile Obsession. Bummer. Here’s Lee Bender’s site, One Sick Race too. 1988 photo by Grant [...]
January 5, 2010 at 8:58 am
The renovation will provide a community center (North Shore Yacht Club Community Center), museum and visitor center (Salton Sea History Museum). The site has been designated as a Riverside County Historic Site, so renovation was done with adherence to the original design. The pool is gone because 1-liability, 2-inability to rebuild to code, 3-prohibitive maintenance costs. By the way, the sea is not polluted and the birds and human users are not hacking, ill or sick. We eat the fish, boat and swim and enjoy the pure beauty of the area.
January 6, 2010 at 10:56 am
I don’t believe you. It’s a scam. Not sure why, just yet. But you’re full of shit. If it’s not polluted why does the whole shore consist of dead fish?? Gross.
February 6, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Charise, the only reason the fish die is a lack of oxygen for the fish. so they die, the only reason why it “consist of dead fish” is because of how GOOD it is for them to BREED. i go there all the time to fish, and eat them, they taste better the stock pond fish or store bought, so there has to be something to that.
the only reason it is polluted is because of people lying and saying it is.
unless you call yourself a LIAR; don’t say its polluted.
PS skated it many times over the past 3 years, good vert, I whent down there is fish last week to see it gone, I smoked a cig, gave it a solute, and went about my day.
It was a day ruiner foreshore.
January 4, 2010 at 9:19 pm
a historically and architecturally significant monument lost, leveled and being rebuilt. so much history was there. way out of balance, not so much polluted.
January 4, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Bummer!
January 4, 2010 at 11:51 am
sorry for the double post.typo
January 4, 2010 at 11:42 am
so polluted the birds and humans are hacking. 120 degrees in the summer.herb spitzer had the place wired.
January 4, 2010 at 11:13 am
never got to go. that 2nd photo is absolutely beautiful!! bummer…
do u know who/why fill it in? from photos and stories i’ve heard/seen, seemed like it was a pretty desolate place.